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
Structural properties of affine sparsity constraints
10:10-10:50
Li-Zhi Liao
Interior point continuous trajectories for optimization: motivations, convergence and computation
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
The proximal-gradient algorithm for fractional programming: convergence analysis and rates
11:50-12:30
Jane J. Ye
On solving polynomial bilevel programming problems
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
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
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
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
First order methods for solving convex bi-level optimization problems
17:00-17:40
Henry Wolkowicz
ADMM for the SDP relaxation of the QAP
ADMM for the SDP relaxation of the QAP