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14 th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization Leuven

September 14-18, 2009

 

Special Topic: Optimization in Engineering

 

 

Invited Presentations

 

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

Pierre-Antoine ABSIL (Université Catholique de Louvain)
  Optimization on manifolds: an overview of techniques and applications
 
Samir ADLY (Université de Limoges)
  Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems: an overview
 
Jean-Baptiste CAILLAU (Université de Bourgogne)
  Applied geometric control in space mechanics
 
Roberto COMINETTI (Universidad de Chile)
  Equilibrium and learning in traffic network games
 
Mirjam DUER (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
  Copositive Programming
 
Karl KUNISCH (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
  Semi-smooth Newton and path following methods for infinite dimensional non-differentiable optimisation problems
 
Martine LABBE (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Application of combinatorial optimization in biology
 
Arkadi NEMIROVSKI (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Convex Stochastic and Large-Scale Deterministic Programming via Robust Stochastic Approximation and its Extensions
 
Dominikus NOLL (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse)
  Feedback control via nonlinear optimization
 
Sebastian SAGER (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
  Trends in Nonlinear Mixed-Integer Optimal Control
 
Volker SCHULZ (Universität Trier)
  CFD-model based optimization
 
Tamas TERLAKY (Lehigh University) (Stevin Lecture)
  Linear Optimization and Extensions: Three decades of polynomial time algorithms
 
Laurence WOLSEY (Université Catholique de Louvain)
  Tight Mixed Integer Programing Formulations