VWCO25

3rd Vienna Workshop on
Computational Optimization

June 4-6, 2025

Vienna, AUSTRIA

Wednesday, June 4
08:30 - 08:50   Registration
08:50 - 09:00   Opening Ceremony
Session 1
09:00 - 09:40 Amir Beck "A Dynamic Smoothing Technique for a Class of Nonsmooth Optimization Problems on Manifolds"
09:40 - 10:20 Heinz Bauschke "On Opial's Lemma"
10:20 - 10:45 Caroline Geiersbach "Optimality conditions and approximation in infinite-dimensional stochastic optimization"
10:45 - 11:15   Coffee Break
Session 2
11:15 - 11:55 Guillaume Carlier "Quantitative stability of push-forwards by optimal maps"
11:55 - 12:20 Dang-Khoa Nguyen "Fast numerical methods in continuous and discrete times"
12:20 - 14:00   Lunch Buffet
Session 3
14:00 - 14:40 Simge Küçükyavuz "Mixed-Integer Convex Optimization for Statistical Learning: A Tale of Two C(omplex)ities"
14:40 - 15:20 Jacek Gondzio "Cutting Planes, Column Generation and Decomposition with Interior Point Methods"
15:20 - 15:50   Coffee Break
Session 4
15:50 - 16:30 Kurt Anstreicher "Extended Triangle Inequalities for Nonconvex Box-Constrained Quadratic Programming"
16:30 - 16:55 Morteza Kimiaei "Heuristic methods for noisy derivative-free bound-constrained mixed-integer optimization"
      17:30        Evening Reception
Thursday, June 5
Session 5
09:00 - 09:40 Daniel Kuhn "Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control"
09:40 - 10:20 Claudia Sagastizábal "Expanding the reach of splitting methods"
10:20 - 10:45 Gabriela Kovacova "Active Learning for Convex Projection"
10:45 - 11:15   Coffee Break
Session 6
11:15 - 11:55 Peter Richtárik "TBA"
11:55 - 12:20 Axel Böhm "How much should you bet, if the odds are in your favor?"
12:20 - 14:00   Lunch Buffet
Session 7
14:00 - 14:40 Luis Nunes Vicente "Pareto sensitivity, most-changing sub-fronts, and knee solutions"
14:40 - 15:20 Gabriele Eichfelder "Enclosures and local upper bounds in multiobjective optimization"
15:20 - 15:50   Coffee Break
Session 8
15:50 - 16:30 Gabor Pataki "Combinatorial certificates in SDP duality: how elementary row operations help"
16:30 - 16:55 Michael Kahr "Homogeneous (tram) usage dispatch problem"
16:55 - 17:20 Markus Gabl "Finding and exploiting quadratic underestimators for optimal value functions of nonconvex all-quadratic problems via copositive optimization"
      18:00        Workshop Dinner
Friday, June 6
Session 9
09:00 - 09:40 Petra Mutzel "Computational Optimization in Geodesy"
09:40 - 10:20 Yurii Malitskyi "Implicit bias in optimization algorithms"
10:20 - 10:45 Stefan Neumann "Modeling the Impact of Timeline Algorithms on Opinion Dynamics Using Low-rank Updates"
10:45 - 11:15   Coffee Break
Session 10
11:15 - 11:55 Francesco Rinaldi "Direct Search Methods for Stochastic Zeroth-Order Problems"
11:55 - 12:20 Gramoz Goranci "Nested Dissection Meets IPMs: Planar Min-Cost Flow in Nearly-Linear Time"
12:20 - 14:00   Lunch Buffet