OPTIMIZATION, GAMES, AND DYNAMICS

November 28-29, 2011
Institut Henri Poincaré
Amphithéâtre Hermite
11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie
Paris 5ème

Objective: The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists to discuss advances in optimization theory, game theory, and dynamical systems, the interconnections between these disciplines, and their applications in areas such as control theory, biology, the calculus of variations, learning theory, transportation theory, statistics, economics, and inverse problems. The conference is organized around 12 plenary talks and its language is English.

Plenary speakers:

Hédy Attouch, Université Montpellier 2
Heinz Bauschke, University of British Columbia
Yann Brenier, Université de Nice ‒ CNRS
Francis Clarke, Université de Lyon 1
Roberto Cominetti, Universidad de Chile
Asen Dontchev, American Mathematical Society
Stéphane Gaubert, INRIA
Josef Hofbauer, Universität Wien
Adrian Lewis, Cornell University
Arkady Nemirovski, Georgia Institute of Technology
Boris Polyak, Russian Academy of Sciences
Jérôme Renault, Université Toulouse 1

Program:

November 28, 2011
- 08:30 – 08:45 : Registration
- 08:45 – 09:00 : Opening address
- 09:00 – 09:50 : H. Attouch, Convergence of descent methods for semi-algebraic and tame problems
- 09:50 – 10:40 : H. Bauschke, Proximal and resolvent averages
- 10:40 – 11:10 : Break
- 11:10 – 12:00 : Y. Brenier, Incompressible optimal transport
- 12:00 – 14:00 : Break
- 14:00 – 14:50 : F. Clarke, Discontinuous feedback in control theory
- 14:50 – 15:40 : R. Cominetti, Optimization models for network congestion control with multipath routing
- 15:40 – 16:20 : Break
- 16:20 – 17:10 : A. Dontchev, Regularity, estimates, and convergence of algorithms
November 29, 2011
- 09:00 – 09:50 : S. Gaubert, Tropical considerations in dynamic programming
- 09:50 – 10:40 : J. Hofbauer, Game dynamics: Discrete versus continuous time
- 10:40 – 11:10 : Break
- 11:10 – 12:00 : A. Lewis, Active sets and nonsmooth geometry
- 12:00 – 14:00 : Break
- 14:00 – 14:50 : A. Nemirovski, Saddle point algorithms for large-scale well-structured convex optimization
- 14:50 – 15:40 : B. Polyak, L1 techniques in control problems
- 15:40 – 16:20 : Break
- 16:20 – 17:10 : J. Renault, On the limit value in dynamic optimization

Registration: Free but mandatory, please send an email to P. L. Combettes

Social event: Cocktail party on the 24th floor of the Zamansky tower, Université Pierre et Marie Curie ‒ Paris 6, November 28th, 6 p.m.

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