Plenary Speakers

• Mike Ferris
  Professor of Computer Sciences and Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
• Charley Johnson
  Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va
• Sven Leyffer
  Computer scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Il
• Tom Luo
  ADC Chair in Digital Technology, Dept of ECE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• Michael Saunders
  Dept of Management Science and Engineering (MS&E), Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• Roger J-B Wets (topic: Uncertainty Data, Financial Math)
  Department of Mathematics University of California, Davis, CA
• Yinyu Ye ( topic: Graph Realization)
  Professor of Management Science and Engineering Director, Industrial Affiliates Program, MS&E, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Organizing Committee

• Tony Vannelli, and Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo (Co-Chairs)
  
• Abdo Alfakih , University of Windsor
• Antoine Deza, McMaster University.
• Samir Elhedhli, University of Waterloo

Advisory Committee

• Tom Coleman, University of Waterloo
• Tamas Terlaky, McMaster University
• Levent Tuncel, University of Waterloo

For (Prospective) Participants

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Themes/Sessions:

1. Euclidean Distance Matrices and Applications to: Sensor Location; Molecular Conformation

   • Organizer: Abdo Alfakih
   • Possible participants: Huang Tuy, P.D. Tao, Charles Johnson, Jorge More, Shaun Fallat, Michael Trosset, Pablo Tarazaga, Monique Laurent, Tom Hayden, Jon Lee, Jim Wells, Yinyu Ye, Michael Carter, Michael Saunders, holly Jin, A. Barvinok,

2. Large Scale Computational Optimization

   • Organizer: Romy Shioda and ???others??? and ??? Henry Wolkowicz? and ???Tamas Terlaky?
   • possible participants: Tom Coleman, Tamas Terlaky, Henry Wolkowicz, Kurt Anstreicher, Michael Saunders, Arkadi Nemirovski, ???? too many possibilities to list now ????

3. VLSI Design

   • organizer: Miguel Anjos also Tony Vannelli???
   • possible participants: ????

4. MPECs

   • organizer: Miguel Anjos
   • possible participants: Tom Luo, Sven Leyffer ????

5. Design Optimization

   • organizer: Joaquim Martins (Univ. Toronto) (with help from David Zingg (Univ. Toronto) )
   • possible participants: ????

6. Financial Optimization

   • organizer: Yuying Li
   • possible participants: ????

7. Applications in the Process Industries

   • organizer: Tom Marlin (McMaster Univ.) and Chris Swartz (Mcmaster Univ. )
   • possible participants: ????

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