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12th US-Mexico Workshop on Optimization and its Applications

January 9 - 13, 2023

Camino Real Zaashila
Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico


12th US-Mexico Workshop on Optimization and its Applications Participants

Sponsored by the Center for Optimization and Statistical Learning, the 2023 US-Mexico Workshop brought together 38 participants from across the US, Mexico, Montreal, and Paris to present their research and approaches to optimization.


Participants, with links to presentations:

José Miguel Saavedra Aguilar, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas

Ahmet Alacaoglu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mihai Anitescu, Argonne National Laboratory

Necdet Serhat Aybat, Penn State University

Albert Berahas, University of Michigan (presentation)

Raghu Bollapragada, University of Texas at Austin (presentation)

Johannes Brust, University of California, San Diego (presentation)

Oscar Dalmau Cedeño, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas

Frank Curtis, Lehigh University

Mateo Diaz Diaz, Caltech

Lijun Ding, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maryam Fazel, University of Washington (presentation)

Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin-Madison (presentation)

Don Goldfarb, Columbia University (presentation)

Oktay Günlük, Cornell University

Mert Gürbüzbalaban, Rutgers University (presentation)

Simge Küçükyavuz, Northwestern University (presentation)

Kangwook Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison (presentation)

Qin Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Haihao Lu, University of Chicago (presentation)

Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jim Luedtke, University of Wisconsin-Madison (presentation)

Matt Menickelly, Argonne National Laboratory

Miguel Oscar Almarales Milan, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas

Hector Morales, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (presentation)

David Morton, Northwestern University

Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University (presentation)

Courtney Paquette, McGill University

Ben Recht, University of California, Berkeley (presentation)

Clément Royer, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (presentation)

Michael Saunders, Stanford University (presentation)

Katya Scheinberg, Cornell University

Luis Nunes Vicente, Lehigh University (presentation)

Andreas Wächter, Northwestern University

Karen Wilcox, University of Texas at Austin

Stefan Wild, Berkeley Lab

Rebecca Willett, University of Chicago

Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison (presentation)


ORGANIZERS:

Jeff Linderoth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Harbey D. Spangler Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering

Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern UniversityDirector, Center for Optimization and Statistical Learning, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences

Katya Scheinberg, Cornell UniversityProfessor, Operations Research & Information Engineering


Workshop poster

Program, including all collected abstracts from 33 speakers



Midwest Optimization and Statistical Learning Conference 2022

May 19th, 2022

Allen Center at Northwestern University

2169 Campus Drive, Room 140

Evanston, IL 60208

The Midwest Optimization & Statistical Learning Conference is a biannual conference series that brings together leaders in the field of optimization and machine learning to present and discuss cutting-edge research.  Northwestern University was proud to host MO&S 2022 alongside our co-sponsors at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.  Participating institutions include:

  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Michigan
  • Northwestern University
  • Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

Event Agenda

Speakers:

Xinyu Fei, University of Michigan

Carla Michini, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Kibaek Kim, Argonne National Laboratory

Brian Bullins, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Haihao Lu, University of Chicago

Zhaoran Wang, Northwestern University

Tamara Kolda, mathsci.ai and Northwestern University



The 11th US - Mexico Workshop on Optimization and its Applications

January 8th - 12th, 2018

US & Mexico optimization workshop participants

Workshop Themes

  • Derivative-Free Optimization
  • Nonconvex Optimization
  • Machine Learning
  • Large-scale and Stochastic Optimization
  • Complementarity and Integer Programming

Participants

Amir Ali Ahmadi
Amirali Farid Alizadeh
Serhat Aybat
Albert Berahas
Jose Blanchet
Paul Boggs
Raghu Bollapragada
Richard Byrd
Frank E. Curtis
Alexandre d'Aspremont
Robert Fourer
David M. Gay
Hiva Ghanbari
Philip Gill
Donald Goldfarb
Clovis Gonzaga
Oktay Gunluk
Jorge More
Jorge Nocedal
Alejandra Pena Ordieres
Michael Overton
Daniel P. Robinson
Mohammadreza Samadi
Michael Saunders
Katya Scheinberg
David Shanno
Michael J. Todd
Andreas Waechter
Zaiwen Wen
Stefan Wild
John Wright
Ming Yan
Yinyu Ye
Wotao Yin

Workshop Program

Abstracts

View abstracts

Presentation Slides

Amirali Farid Alizadeh
Serhat Aybat
Raghu Bollapragada
Richard Byrd
Frank E. Curtis
Alexandre d'Aspremont
Robert Fourer
David M. Gay
Hiva Ghanbari
Philip Gill
Donald Goldfarb
Jorge Nocedal
Michael Overton
Daniel P. Robinson
Mohammadreza Samadi
Michael Saunders
Katya Scheinberg
Michael J. Todd
Andreas Waechter
Stefan Wild
Yinyu Ye
Wotao Yin

Workshop Committee


Katya Scheinberg

Harvey E. Wagner Endowed Chair Professor
Department of Indistrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University
katyas@lehigh.edu



Jorge Nocedal
David A. and Karen Richards Sachs Professor
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Chair of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University: McCormick School of Engineering
nocedal@ece.northwestern.edu



Oktay Gunluk

Area Head, Mathematical Optimization and Algorithms
T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM
gunluck@us.ibm.com



Garud Iyengar
Department Chair and Professor
The Center for Financial Engineering
Columbia University
garud@ieor.columbia.edu



Zaiwen Wen
Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research (BICMR)
Peking University
wendouble@gmail.com



Wotao Yin
Professor
Department of Mathematics
UCLA
wotaoyin@math.ucla.edu


Workshop on Optimization and Machine Learning

May 18, 2017
Northwestern University

Kellogg Conference Center
340 E Superior St, Chicago, IL 60611

Conference Agenda including Abstracts for Workshop Speakers and Poster Session Participants

Program Overview

  9:30-10:00am    Breakfast available and brief welcome

10:00-10:30am    John Lafferty

10:30-11:00am    Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

11:00-11:30am    Srinadh Bhojanapalli

11:30-12:00pm    Rina Foygel Barber

  12:00-1:30pm    Lunch (Room 440/540)

    1:30-2:00pm    Rob Nowak

    2:00-2:30pm    Becca Willet

    2:30-3:00pm    Break

    3:00-3:30pm    Prasanna Balaprakash

    3:30-4:00pm    Jorge Nocedal

    4:00-5:30pm    Poster Session

            6:00pm    Dinner at Quartino's

Workshop Committee Members

Mihai Anitescu, Argonne National Laboratory
Jim Luedtke, University of Wisconsin- Madison   
Dave Morton, Northwestern University