Optimisation Days

About the workshop

Optimisation Days is a workshop that brings together researchers from across the broad field of optimisation. It offers a platform for presenting and discussing both established and emerging trends, spanning theoretical, computational, and applied perspectives. By fostering exchange across these diverse areas, the workshop aims to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue, showcase recent advances, and stimulate new collaborations in the study and practice of optimisation.

The event features a NEXUS Lecture by James Saunderson on the afternoon of 12 November followed by a reception.

Best talk award winner 

Congratulations to Dr Nicholas Hindley, winner of the Best Talk Award! 

Organisers

Mareike Dressler, Michelle Dunbar, Sarat Moka and Vera Roshchina

Workshop schedule

11 November

• 10:00–10:45 Arrivals and coffee (3082)
• 10:45–10:50 Welcome (4082)
• 10:55–11:20 Li Chen — Managing Inventory and Pricing with Contextual Robust Optimization
• 11:25–11:50 Hongzhi Liao — Exposed Extreme Rays of the SONC Cone
• 12:00–13:00 Lunch
• 13:05–13:30 Nicholas Hindley — Real-time respiratory motion modelling during image-guided radiotherapy
• 13:35–14:00 Zdravko Botev — A Majorize-Minimize Algorithm for Constrained Linear and Quadratic Programming
• 14:05–14:30 Nadezhda Sukhorukova — Optimisation, approximation and polytopes
• 14:35–15:00 Coffee break
• 15:05–15:30 Adil Baghirov — Global DC optimization: recent developments
• 15:35–16:00 Dmytro Matsypura — Centrality of shortest paths: algorithms and complexity results
• 16:05–16:30 Felipe Atenas — Variable stepsize splitting methods as relocated fixed-point iterations

12 November

• 09:30–09:55 Thakshila Rajapaksha — Recent Advances in Derivative-Free Optimisation for Faster Convergence Rates
• 10:00–10:25 Amir Ali Farzin — Properties of Fixed Points of Generalised Extra Gradient Methods Applied to Min-Max Problems
• 10:30–10:55 Coffee break
• 11:00–11:25 Neil Dizon — Dynamic imaging with online primal-dual methods
• 11:30–11:55 Bethany Caldwell — A primal-dual splitting method for robust convex optimisation
• 12:00–12:25 Wenky Wang — A New Relaxation for Solving Polynomial Optimization: Bounded-SOS+SONC Relaxation
• 12:30–13:25 Lunch
• 13:30–13:55 Reinier Diaz Millan — Frank–Wolfe algorithm for DC optimisation problem
• 14:00–14:25 Sarat Moka — A Unified Approach for Best Subset Selection Problems
• 14:30–14:55 Sona Taheri — DC optimization for solving reverse convex programming problems
• 15:00–15:25 Kasra Khosoussi — Measure Once, Estimate Twice: Joint State and Noise Covariance Estimation
• 15:30–15:45 Closing remarks
• 16:00–17:00 James Saunderson, Effective descriptions of convex sets for optimisation ( Nexus talk, please register separately)
• 17:00–19:00 Nexus reception