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7th SDP Days

Workshop on Applications of Semidefinite Optimization

CWI, Amsterdam - Room TBA - May 6-7, 2020

(Tentative) Programme on Wednesday May 6

From 10:00 Coffee
10:30 - 11:15 Lecture by Jean-Bernard Lasserre, LAAS, Toulouse The Moment-SOS hierarchy Abstract
11:30 - 12:15 Lecture by Etienne de Klerk, Tilburg University SDP bounds for energy minimization of repulsive particles on a toric grid Abstract
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Lecture by Renata Sotirov, Tilburg University Facial reduction for symmetry reduced semidefinite programs Abstract
14:30 - 15:15 Lecture by Juan Vera, Tilburg University Copositive certificates of non-negativity Abstract
15:30 - 16:15 Lecture by Frank Vallentin, University Cologne Complete positivity, distance-avoiding sets, and integrality gaps of SDP relaxations Abstract
From 16:00 Drinks
From 19:00 Conference diner

(Tentative) Programme on Thursday May 7

From 10:00 Coffee
10:30 - 11:15 Lecture by Jonathan Shi, Bocconi University, Milan Generically robust tensor rank decomposition, from rounding SDPs by spectral gaps Abstract
11:30 - 12:15 Lecture by Franz Rendl, University of Klagenfurt Lasserre hierarchy versus Exact Subgraphs for Max-Cut Abstract
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 Lecture by David de Laat, Delft University of Technology Exact semidefinite programming bounds for packing problems Abstract
14:30 - 15:15 Lecture by Marc Zimmermann, University of Cologne Spectral bounds on measurable chromatic numbers of symmetric spaces Abstract
15:30 - 15:15 Lecture by Sander Gribling, CWI, Amsterdam Mutually unbiased bases, finite geometry and polynomial optimization Abstract
16:30 Closure of the workshop

Registration

Participation is free, but please register by sending an email to Susanne van Dam (susanne@cwi.nl) before 25 April so that we can organize the catering.

Location

CWI, room TBA

CWI, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam.

Organizers

Nikhil Bansal (CWI, TU Eindhoven), Monique Laurent (CWI, U. Tilburg)

Information about earlier SDP Days

6th SDP Day 5th SDP Day 4th SDP Day

Sponsors

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