Schedule

WCOM Fall 2013

Friday evening, October 4

Join us for a buffet dinner, 6:30-9pm in the Engineering and Computer Science Building Room 660 (ECS660, the 6th-floor lounge of the Department of Computer Science , University of Victoria (Google map)

Cost: $18 for faculty and guests; $12 for students. Pay by cash during the dinner.
Please make sure to register if you plan to attend.

Saturday, October 5, 8:15am–5:00pm

Drop by 8:15–9:00am for a light breakfast: coffee, juice, bagels, fruit, etc. This is a tentative schedule, it is subject to change.

Time	Presenter	Title
9:00 - 9:30	Ting Kei Pong	The Proximal-proximal Gradient Algorithm
9:30 - 10:10	Hristo Sendov	New representation theorems for completely monotone and Bernstein functions with a convexity type condition on their measures
10:10 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:10	Boris Mordukhovich	Full Stability in Finite-Dimensional Optimization
11:10 - 11:30	Nghia Tran	Lipschitzian and Holderian Stability of Parametric Variational Conditions
11:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:10	Mau Nam Nguyen	Smoothing Techniques and Nesterov Accelerated Gradient Method for Location Problems
14:10 - 14:50	Terry Rockafellar	Convexity and Duality in the Economics of Financial Equilibrium
14:50 - 15:10	Break
15:10 - 15:40	Stephen Simons	SI spaces, maximal monotonicity and SN spaces
15:40 - 16:00	Walaa Moursi	Generalized solutions for the sum of two maximally monotone operators
16:00 - 16:40	Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy	Slope and geometry in variational mathematics