Friday, July 23

MS99
Variational Analysis: Applications and Theory - Part II of II

9:45 AM - 11:45 AM

For Part I, see MS75

This minisymposium provides an excellent opportunity of connecting researchers from different areas of optimization to interact, share recent research progress and discuss possible directions of future collaboration. Areas of interest ranges from theoretical results to applications in statistics and computer science.

Organizer: Walaa M. Moursi
University of Waterloo, Canada
Henry Wolkowicz
University of Waterloo, Canada

9:45-10:10 A Warped Resolvent Algorithm to Construct Nash Equilibria abstract

Minh N. Bui and Patrick L. Combettes, North Carolina State University, U.S.

10:15-10:40 Attouch-Th'era Duality, Generalized Cycles and Gap Vectors abstract

Salihah Alwadani, University of British Columbia, Canada

10:45-11:10 Alternative SOCP Approximations for Polynomial Optimization abstract

Bissan Ghaddar, Western University, Canada

11:15-11:40 Robust Interior Point Methods for Quantum Key Rate Computation for Quantum Key Distribution abstract

Jiyoung Im, Hao Hu, Jie Lin, Norbert Lutkenhaus, and Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo, Canada