2017 HKBU Workshop on Optimization

30 May 2017
Hong Kong Baptist University

Time: 9:30am -17:40pm
Venue: Room 504, Academic & Administration Building, Baptist University Road Campus, HKBU

Speakers:
Radu Ioan Bot, University of Vienna, Austria
Li-Zhi Liao, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Jong-Shi Pang, University of Southern California, USA
Shoham Sabach, Technion, Israel
Marc Teboulle, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Xianfu Wang, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jane J. Ye, University of Victoria, Canada
Jin Zhang, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Program
 

09:30-10:10
Jong-Shi Pang
Structural properties of affine sparsity constraints

10:10-10:50
Li-Zhi Liao
Interior point continuous trajectories for optimization: motivations, convergence and computation

10:50-11:10
Break

11:10-11:50
Radu Ioan Bot
The proximal-gradient algorithm for fractional programming: convergence analysis and rates

11:50-12:30
Jane J. Ye
On solving polynomial bilevel programming problems

12:30-14:00
Lunch

14:00-14:40
Marc Teboulle
A dual method for minimizing a nonsmooth objective over one smooth inequality constraint

14:40-15:20
Jin Zhang
Weaker error bound conditions for the linear convergence rate of the alternating direction method of multipliers

15:20-15:40
Break

15:40-16:20
Xianfu Wang
Optimal rates of linear convergence of relaxed alternating projections and generalized Douglas-Rachford methods for two subspaces

16:20-17:00
Shoham Sabach
First order methods for solving convex bi-level optimization problems

17:00-17:40
Henry Wolkowicz
ADMM for the SDP relaxation of the QAP