This page is an archive of the 2005-6 Institute for Mathematical Optimization Seminar at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg. The current seminar Web page is here. Please contact Elke Eisenschmidt if you would like to speak.

Schedule from September 2005 to June 2006:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Sept. 24th (Th) Mara Servilio Università degli Studi di Roma Tre and Università degli Studi di L'Aquila One-machine scheduling with chain precedence relations: a polyhedral study.
Sept. 27th (Tu) Tamon Stephen Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg The distribution of values in the Quadratic Assignment Problem.
Oct. 18th (Tu) Matthias Jach Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg About a Wave Model in Chemical Engineering.
Oct. 19th (W) Kent Andersen University of Copenhagen Cuts from two rows of the simplex tableau.
Oct. 20th (Th) Elke Eisenschmidt Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Multicommodity Flow Problems, Network Design Problems and a column generation technique.
Nov. 16th (W) Matthias Köppe Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg FPTAS for polynomial optimization in fixed dimension. Part 1: The integer case.
Nov. 17th (Th) Matthias Köppe Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg FPTAS for polynomial optimization in fixed dimension. Part 2: The mixed integer case.
Nov. 24th (Th) Raymond Hemmecke Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Computation of Hilbert bases and Graver bases.       Talk slides.
Dec. 1st (Th) Raymond Hemmecke Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Computation of atomic fibers.       Talk slides.
Dec. 8th (Th) Dennis Michaels Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Nonnegative Polynomials.
Jan. 18th (We) Dennis Michaels Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Sum of Squares Programs Part 1.
Jan. 18th (We) Armin Fügenschuh Technical University of Darmstadt Optimale Schulanfangszeiten.
Jan. 19th (Th) Dennis Michaels Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Sum of Squares Programs Part 2.
Mar. 20th (Mo) Nikolaos Sahinidis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Optimization in the Informatics Era.
May 12th (Fr) Tamon Stephen Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Colourful Simplicial Depth.
May 26th (Fr) Matthias Köppe Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg A primal variant of Barvinok's algorithm based on irrational signed decompositions
June 9th (Fr) Elke Eisenschmidt Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg Atomic Fibers, Integer Minkowski Programs and the Design of Survivable Networks
June 23rd (Fr) Frank Vallentin CWI Amsterdam New upper bounds for the kissing number from semidefinite programming
June 29th (Th) Ruriko Yoshida University of Kentucky A Generalization of the Linear Integer Feasible Problem

Last modified July 5th, 2006.