27 June 2014       ICMS Edinburgh
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Workshop schedule

Friday 27 June

11:00 - 11.30 Registration with tea, coffee and danishes
11.30 - 12.10 Raphael Hauser (University of Oxford)
The Role of Convex Optimization in Optimal Alignments of Random Sequences
12.20 - 13.00 Daniel Kuhn (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Generalized Gauss Inequalities via Semidefinite Programming
13.00 - 14:00 Lunch (provided)
14:00 - 14:40 Stephen Boyd (Stanford University)
Operator Splitting for Conic Optimization via Homogeneous Self-Dual Embedding
14.50 - 15.30 Jacek Gondzio (University of Edinburgh)
Inexact Search Directions and Matrix-Free Second-Order Methods for Optimization
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee
16:00 - 16.40 Daniel Ralph (University of Cambridge)
Capacity Decisions in Electricity Production Under Risk Aversion and Risk Trading
16.50 - 17:30 Julian Hall (University of Edinburgh)
Parallelising the Dual Revised Simplex Method
17:30 - 18:30 Poster session and wine reception