Scientific Program

The scientific program (20 December afternoon, 21 December full day) will include invited talks and a panel discussion.

Talks, Speakers (in alphabetical order) and Slides

• Paula Amaral (FCT and CMA, Nova University Lisbon, Portugal)
  Copositivity in fractional optimization
• Annabella Astorino (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
  DC models for machine learning problems
• Paula Brito (University of Porto, Portugal):
  Linear models for complex data analysis
• Peter Dickinson (Rabobank, The Netherlands)
  Generating irreducible copositive matrices using the stable set problem
• Mirjam Dür (University of Augsburg, Germany)
  Copositive optimization and completely positive matrix factorization
• Gabriele Eichfelder (TU Ilmenau, Germany)
  Using convex underestimators for global multiobjective optimization
• Francesca Maggioni (Università degli studi di Bergamo, Italy)
  Sampling methods for multistage robust convex optimization problems
• Laura Palagi (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
  Fast computation of bounds in quadratic integer programming
• Christina Pawlowitsch (Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris 2, France)
  Costly signals: rationality and evolution (a classification)
• Veronica Piccialli (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy)
  A new branch-and-bound algorithm for standard quadratic programming problems
• Samuel Rota Bulò (Mapillary Research, Austria)
  Infection and Immunization Dynamics and its application to data clustering
• Anita Schöbel (University of Göttingen, Germany)
  The search for the tree of life: a location problem in the phylogenetic tree space
• Naomi Shaked-Monderer (Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel)
  Some copositive thoughts
• E. Alper Yıldırım (Koç University, Turkey)
  Global solutions of nonconvex standard quadratic programs via mixed integer linear programming formulations

All sessions will take place at the Sky Lounge (for more details check out venue).