Monday | March 17, 2025

Conference Schedule for March 17, 2025
Time Speaker Presentation
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks
Session 1
9:15 – 9:45 Andrzej Ruszczyński A Functional Model Method for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Conditional Stochastic Optimization
9:45 – 10:15 Stan Uryasev Risk Quadrangle and Applications in Statistics, Data Mining, and Portfolio Optimization
10:15 – 10:45 Alois Pichler Quantization with Maximum Mean Discrepancies
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
Session 2
11:15 – 11:45 Arkadi Nemirovski Some Applications of Semidefinite Optimization in Control and Statistics
11:45 – 12:15 Boris Mordukhovich Globally Convergent Derivative-Free Methods in Nonconvex Optimization with and without Noise
12:15 – 12:25 Linwei Xin VC Theory for Inventory Policies
12:25 – 12:35 Yao Xie Distributionally Robust Optimization via Iterative Algorithms in Continuous Probability Spaces
12:35 – 2:00 Lunch
Session 3
2:00 – 2:30 Roberto Cominetti Near-Optimal Sample Complexity for MDPs via Anchoring
2:30 – 3:00 Eugene A. Feinberg Sufficient Conditions for Solving Statistical Filtering Problems by Dynamic Programming
3:00 – 3:30 Daniel Kuhn Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization with Heterogeneous Data Sources
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
Session 4
4:00 – 4:10 Grigory Kabatyansky Spherical Packing, Codes, and Optimization
4:10 – 5:10 Discussion session
5:10 – 5:15 Break and Setup
5:15 – 6:00 Discussion session
7:00 – 9:00 Dinner