GeoLMI 2013 - Conference on Geometry and Algebra of Linear Matrix Inequalities

MOA

12-16 November 2013
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM), University of Marseille, Luminy, France.

Scope

This is a conference organized by Didier Henrion and Monique Laurent, jointly with the 3rd official meeting of the GeoLMI project funded by the French National Research Agency. It is also sponsored by the French CNRS Working Group MOA (Mathematics of Optimization and Applications).

The conference aims at bringing together various researchers in pure and applied mathematics (real algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, functional analysis, continuous and discrete optimization) interested in linear matrix inequalities and their application areas (operations research, system control, performance analysis of dynamical systems).

Date and venue

The conference takes place from Tuesday 12 November to Saturday 16 November 2013 at CIRM on the Luminy campus of the University of Marseille, France.

Note that Monday 11 November is holiday in France, but participants of the conference are welcome at CIRM from 5pm on this day.

Note also that there is a morning session on Saturday 16 November. Participants can have lunch at CIRM just before leaving.

Registration and accomodation

Registration to the conference is free of charge but mandatory, and external attendees are expected to use their own funding to cover traveling and accomodation costs.

The number of participants is limited to 86. If you wish to participate, please contact directly the CIRM staff. CIRM can accomodate additional participants in 31 double rooms and 1 triple room. The fees of board and lodging at CIRM can be found here. Registrations and rooms will be assigned on a first-come first-served basis. But if you have a preference with whom to share a room please let us know.

Confirmed participants

See the CIRM workshop webpage for an updated list of confirmed registered participants.

Scientific programme

The full conference schedule including the abstracts can be downloaded here in PDF format.

Tuesday November 12

  • 9:30 - 9:45 Introduction

  • 10:00 - 10:45 Jean-Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France) - The moment-LP and moment-SOS hierarchies

  • 11:15 - 12:00 Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty (Univ. Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France) - How (even professional) mathematicians can make mistakes or fall into traps...

  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 16:00 - 16:45 Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA Méditerannée Nice, France) - Singular perturbations in optimization

  • 17:15 - 18:00 Rida Laraki (LAMSADE-CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, France) - Inertial game dynamics and applications to constrained optimization

  • 18:30 - 19:15 Frank Vallentin (Univ. Koeln, Germany) - Efficient distributions of points

  • 19:30 - 21:00 Dinner

    Wednesday November 13

  • 9:00 - 9:45 Bernd Sturmfels (Univ. California at Berkeley, USA) - Quartic spectrahedra

  • 10:15 - 11:00 Thorsten Theobald (Goethe Univ. Frankfurt, Germany) - A semidefinite hierarchy for containment of spectrahedra

  • 11:30 - 12:15 Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France) - Recent advances on the integration of lot-sizing and scheduling

  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 16:00 - 16:45 Mathieu Claeys (Univ. Cambridge, UK) - Occupation measures and semi-definite relaxations for optimal control

  • 17:15 - 18:00 Christophe Prieur (Gipsalab-CNRS Grenoble, France) - Design of switching rules for linear systems of conservation laws

  • 18:30 - 19:15 Emmanuel Trélat (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France) - Finite-dimensional predictor feedback stabilization of heat equations with boundary input delay

  • 19:30 - 21:00 Dinner

    Thursday November 14

  • 9:00 - 9:45 Greg Blekherman (Georgia Inst. Tech. Atlanta, USA) - Homogeneous truncated moment problem and positive rank

  • 10:15 - 11:00 Tim Netzer (Univ. Leipzig, Germany) - The moment problem is still not completely solved

  • 11:30 - 12:15 Pablo Parrilo (MIT Boston, USA) - PSD factorizations of nonnegative matrices and lower bounds on semidefinite representations

  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 16:00 - 16:45 Martin Mevissen (IBM Research Lab Dublin, Ireland) - Data-driven distributionally robust polynomial optimization

  • 17:15 - 18:00 Cordian Riener (Aalto Univ. Helsinki, Finland) - Efficiently optimizing with symmetric polynomials

  • 18:30 - 19:15 Dima Pasechnik (Univ. Oxford, UK) - A moment problem and secondary polytopes of nonconvex polyhedra

  • 19:30 - 21:00 Bouillabaisse

    Friday November 15

  • 9:00 - 9:45 Rekha Thomas (Univ. Washington Seattle, USA) - The Euclidean distance degree of an algebraic variety

  • 10:15 - 11:00 Tomas Prieto-Rumeau (UNED Madrid, Spain) - Numerical approximations for average cost Markov decision processes

  • 11:30 - 12:15 Sinai Robins (Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore) - A Fourier approach to the Brion identities

  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

  • 16:00 - 16:45 Markus Schweighofer (Univ. Konstanz, Germany) - Pure states and preorder membership

  • 17:15 - 18:00 Bernard Mourrain (INRIA Méditerannée Nice, France) - Certified relaxation for polynomial optimization on semi-algebraic sets

  • 18:30 - 19:15 Murray Marshall (Univ. Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada) - Application of localization to the multivariate moment problem

  • 19:30 - 21:00 Dinner

    Saturday November 16

  • 9:00 - 9:30 Amir Ali Ahmadi (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) - DSOS and SDSOS: more tractable alternatives to SOS

  • 9:30 - 10:00 Milan Korda (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) - Region of attraction approximation for polynomial dynamical systems

  • 10:30 - 11:00 Simone Naldi (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse and Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie Paris) - Real root finding for determinants of linear matrices

  • 11:00 - 11:30 Daniel Plaumann (Univ. Konstanz, Germany) - Determinantal representations of hyperbolic curves via polynomial homotopy continuation

  • 11:30 - 12:00 João Gouveia (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal) - Approximate cone factorizations and lifts of polytopes

  • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch


    Last updated on 10 February 2014.