The IMA Brown Bag seminar offers a forum for very informal presentations of mathematical topics and problems. This page is the archive of the 2002-3 IMA Brown Bag seminar, which was organized by Tamon Stephen. The 2003-4 IMA Brown Bag seminar will be organized jointly by Tim Garoni and Tamon Stephen. Here is a link to the 2003-4 IMA Brown Bag Seminar.

Fall 2002 speakers:

date speaker affiliation title
October 2nd Doug Kinney Navitaire (No title)
October 23rd Balaji Gopalakrishnan IMA Navitaire Roundtable
October 30th Balaji Gopalakrishnan IMA An active set Non-Negative Least-Squares algorithm
November 6th Farshid Rafiee Rad University of Minnesota Minimizing distance from a set to a hyperplane boundary
November 27th Scot Adams IMA and University of Minnesota Groebner bases and integer programming         Talk Slides
December 11th Maurice Queyranne University of British Columbia and IMA visitor An Introduction to the Competitive Analysis of Online Algorithms
December 18th Jing Wang IMA Approximation Ratio of the Greedy Algorithm to the Set Cover Problem

Winter 2003 speakers:

date speaker affiliation title
January 22nd Collette Coullard Northwestern University and IMA visitor Continued discussion of submodular function minimization
January 29th Moritz Diehl University of Heidelberg and IMA visitor An Algorithm for Real-Time Optimization in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
February 5th Dan Kern IMA Well-Placed Wells: Control, Optimization and Groundwater
February 12th Montaz Ali Witwatersrand University and IMA visitor Burning Issues of the Simulated Annealing Algorithm
February 19th Lisa Evans IMA Master Cyclic Group Problems with Applications to Cutting Planes for Integer Programming
February 26th John Dennis Rice University and IMA visitor Early Career Issues for Mathematicians
March 5th Luís N. Vicente University of Coimbra, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and IMA visitor On a primal-dual interior-point filter method for nonlinear programming
March 26th Etienne de Klerk Delft University of Technology Global Optimization of Rational Functions using Semidefinite Programming         Talk slides in .pdf

Spring 2003 speakers:

date speaker affiliation title
April 2nd Montaz Ali Witwatersrand University and IMA visitor Features of the Direct Search Method for Global Optimization
April 16th Scot Adams IMA and University of Minnesota Semidefinite Slices         Talk Slides
April 23th Dacian Daescu IMA Adjoint Modeling for Sensitivity Analysis: Discrete Versus Continuous
April 30th Gianpaolo Oriolo Roma 'Tor Vergata' - Italy Vertex Packing on a Superclass of Interval Graphs
May 14th Ofer Zeitouni University of Minnesota and IMA visitor Optimal Tracking in the Presence of Small Noise
May 21th Outgoing IMA Postdocs IMA Job Search Forum
May 28th Gregory Duane IMA Applications of Synchronized Chaos, Part I
June 4th Gregory Duane IMA Applications of Synchronized Chaos, Part II
June 11th Fadil Santosa IMA and University of Minnesota What I did at Summer Camp
June 18th Luis Goddyn Simon Fraser University and IMA visitor A Trilogy of Missing Algorithms

Last modified October 1st, 2003.