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Friday May 12


Time Session  
7:30-8:30 Continental breakfast  
  Chair: Mohit Singh
8:30–9:15
Digital Humanities & Operations Research
Martin Grötschel – Technische Universität Berlin
Abstract
9:15–10:00
Realignment of Sports Leagues
Bill Pulleyblank – United States Military Academy (West Point)
Abstract
10:00–10:15 Break  
  Chair: Renato Monteiro
10:15–11:00
Accelerating the Universal Newton Methods.
Yuri Nesterov – University of Catholic Louvaine
Abstract
11:00–11:45
Exact robust counterparts of ambiguous stochastic Constraints under mean and dispersion information
Ronny Ben-Tal – Israel Institute of Technology
Abstract
11:45–1:00 Lunch  
  Chair: George Lan
1:00–1:45
Convex Optimization with Abstract Linear Operators
Stephen Boyd – Stanford University
Abstract
1:45–2:30
Variational, Hamiltonian and Symplectic Perspectives on Acceleration
Michael Jordan – University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
2:30–2:45 Break
  Chair: Sebastian Pokutta
2:45–3:30
Parametrization of discrete optimization problems, subdeterminants and matrix-decomposition
Robert Weismantel – ETH Zurich
Abstract
3:30–4:15
A Mathematical Approach to Living on Sinking Ground
Kees Roos – Delft University
Abstract
4:15–4:45 Break (Announcement of the winner of Poster Competition)  
  Chair: Shabbir Ahmed
4:45–5:45
Reflections on the work of Arkadi Nemirovski
Panel:  Anatoli Juditsky, Yurii Nesterov, Alex Shapiro, Stephen Wright, Yinyu Ye
 

George Nemhauser and Arkadi Nemirovski

NemFest May 11th – 12th, 2017 Historic Academy of Medicine Atlanta, GA

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