FOURTH AUSSOIS WORKSHOP

Program

 

Monday, March 13, 2000

09:00 Introduction: Thomas Liebling, Denis Naddef, Laurence Wolsey
 Chair: Rolf Moehring, Berlin
09:15 Egon Balas, Pittsburgh: The latest on lift and project
09:45 Miguel Constantino, Lisboa: On the connected subgraph problem
10:15Break
 Chair: Sun il Chopra
10:45 Tom Mc Cormick, Vancouver: Large scale 2-terminal wire routing in VLSI chips : when Dijkstra's algorithm is too slow
11:15 André Rohe, Bonn: Rectilinear group Steiner trees and applications in VLSI design
11:45 Christoph Albrecht, Bonn: Global routing for VLSI chips by combinatorial optimization algorithms for the multi-commodity flow problems
12:15Break
 Chair: Michele Conforti, Padova
17:30 Rainer Burkard, Graz: An event driven model for batch processing in the chemical industry
18:00 Ladislav Lettovskı & Ellis Johnson, Atlanta: Airline schedule planning and recovery
18:30 Juan José Salazar Gonzalez, La Laguna: The traveling purchaser problem: theoretical and practical polyhedral results
19:00 Gabor Pataki, New York: Can Farkas survive without Slater?
 

Tuesday, March 14, 2000

 Chair: Jean Fonlupt, Paris
08:45 Maurice Queyranne, Vancouver: Hotel yield management: a stochastic integer programming model with a Monge property
09:15 Utz Uwe Haus, Magdeburg: Basis reduction
09:45 Corinne Feremans, Bruxelles: Polyhedral analysis of the general minimum spanning tree problem
10:15Break
 Chair: Bernhard Korte
10:45 David Applegate, Austin: Another branching rule for the TSP
11:15 Adam Letchford, Lancaster: On disjunctive cuts for combinatorial optimization
11:45 Michael Perregard, Pittsburgh: Connections between mixed 0/1 cuts
12:15Break
 Chair: Leslie Trotter
17:30 Günter Rote, Berlin: Can every polygon be untangled?
18:00 Andrew Miller, Louvain-la-Neuve: Solving multi items lot sizing problems with set up times
18:30 Erich Steiner, Lausanne: Action elimination based on first order optimality conditions for stochastic DP
19:00 Gabor Pataki, New York: Can Farkas survive without Slater?
 

Wednesday, March 15, 2000

 Chair: Paolo Toth, Bologna
08:45 Andreas Schulz, Cambridge Mass.: e-Optimization and L-bit precision: alternative models in combinatorial optimization
09:15 Marc Uetz, Berlin: Resource constrained scheduling: from minimum cuts to feasible schedules
09:45 Edoardo Amaldi, Milano: Finding sparse approximate solutions to linear systems and an application to portfolio optimization
10:15Break
 Chair: Gerd Finke, Grenoble
10:45 Martin Skutella, Berlin: Cooperative facility location games
11:15 Jens Vygen, Bonn: On dual minimum cost flow algorithms
11:45 Bram Verveij, Utrecht: The merchant subtour problem
12:15Break
 Chair: Gerd Reinelt, Heidelberg
17:30 Alberto Caprara, Bologna: Packing cuts and cycles in undirected graphs
18:00 Matthias Koeppeg, Magdeburg: Test sets for mixed integer sets
18:30 Matthias Müller-Hannemann, Berlin: A combinatorial approach to hexahedral mesh generation
19:00 Christian Szegedy, Bonn: Symplectic spaces and ear decomposition of graphs and matroids
 

Thursday, March 16, 2000

 Chair: Martine Labbé, Bruxelles
08:45 Lisa Fleischer, New York: Submodular flows without submodular function minimization
09:15 Gianpaolo Oriolo, Roma: On the stable set polytope of quasi-line graphs
09:45 François Margot, Lexington: Small covering designs
10:15Break
 Chair: Ellis Johnson, Atlanta
10:45 Stan Van Hoessel, Maastricht: Frequency assignment algorithms
11:15 François Oustry, Grenoble: SDP and Lagrange duality with applications to combinatorial optimization
11:45 Ted Ralphs, Houston: A branch and cut algorithm for the vehicle routing problem
12:15Break
 Chair: Matteo Fischetti, Padova
17:30 Jon Lee, Lexington: New and old bounds for maximum-entropy sampling
18:00 Andrea Lodi, Bologna: ILP models for 2d shelf packing problems
18:30 Petra Mutzel, Wien: A new approach to map labeling
 

Friday, March 17, 2000

 Chair: Michael Jünger, Köln
08:45 Cor Hurkens, Eindhoven: Gossiping efficiently
09:15 Clemens Heuberger, Graz: On Hamiltonian Toeplitz graphs
09:45 François Vanderbeck, Bordeaux: A nested decomposition approach for 2d three stages cutting problems
10:15 Lisa Fleischer, New York: Submodular flows, cont.
10:45 Conclusion

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