Program
Location: ???? University of Augsburg, building T, room HS 1004
Date: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? February 23-25, 2026
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Monday, February 23 |
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13:30 - 13:45 ? ? ? |
Welcome |
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13:45?-?14:15 |
Etienne De Klerk?(Tilburg University) On Lasserre hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the hypercube |
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14:15 -?14:45 |
Anja Fischer?(TU Dortmund) Strong relaxations for two variants of the quadratic minimum arborescence problem |
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14:45 -?15:15 |
Stefan Weltge?(TU Munich) Multiplicative assignment with upgrades |
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15:15 - 16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Frank Vallentin?(University of Cologne) On the computational complexity of SOS |
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16:30 -?17:00 |
Jan Kronqvist?(KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Exploring affine and rotational transformations to strengthen relaxations for non-convex quadratic problems |
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17:00 -?17:30 |
Tim Netzer?(University of Innsbruck) Geometric foundations of semidefinite programming and a new homotopy method |
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? ? Tuesday, February 24 |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
Angelika Wiegele?(University of Klagenfurt) Bounds on the Edge Expansion by Relaxing a Completely Positive Program |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
Marc Pfetsch?(TU Darmstadt) Solving Mixed-Integer SDPs via LP- or SDP-based Approaches |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 -?11:30 |
Immanuel Bomze?(University of Vienna) Copositivity-informed relaxations of rigorous sparsity control in StQPs applied to microfinance |
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11:30 -?12:00 |
Oleh Melnyk?(TU Berlin) Stochastic Zeroth-Order Method for Computing Generalized Rayleigh Quotients |
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12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 - 14:00 |
Christoph Buchheim?(TU Dortmund) Convex relaxations and dual bounds in function space |
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14:00 -?14:30 |
Stefania Petra?(Heidelberg University) Multilevel Bregman Proximal Gradient Descent |
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14:30 -?15:00 |
Sven Mallach?(University of Siegen) Linear and Semidefinite Programming Perspectives on Quadratic Ordering Problems |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 - 18:30 |
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18:30 |
Conference dinner (self pay) |
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? ? Wednesday, February 25 |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
Miguel F. Anjos?(University of Edinburgh) Unboundedness in Bilevel Optimization |
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Markus Gabl?(University of Vienna) Completely positive reformulations for sparse quadratic optimization |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Gabriele Eichfelder?(TU Ilmenau) Conic relaxations for multiobjective optimization problems |
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11:30 -?12:00 |
Markus Sinnl?(JKU Linz) On solving integer bilevel problems using the high point relaxation and cuts |
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12:00 -?12:30 |
Dominik St?ger?(KU Eichst?tt-Ingolstadt) t.b.a. |
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12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch |