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
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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 |