WoMBaT 2018 Schedule

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Thursday, 29 November
9:00–9:30 Arrivals and informal discussion
9:30–10:00 Welcome session Chair: Nadia Sukhorukova
10:00–10:30 Alex Kruger, About Hölder error bounds
10:30–11:00 Morning tea
11:00–12:00 Marco López, Calmness in convex semi-infinite optimization. Modulus estimates
Keynote talk
Chair: Julien Ugon
12:00–12:30 Adil Bagirov, DP Programming: optimality conditions and numerical methods
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:30 Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz, Non-polyhedral extensions of the Frank and Wolfe Theorem
Keynote talk
Chair: Andrew Eberhard
14:30–15:00 Bui Thi Hoa, Extremal Principle and its extension
15:00–15:30 Nguyen Duy Cuong, Nonlinear Transversality Properties of Collections of Sets
15:30–16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00–16:30 Hieu Thao Nguyen, On linear convergence of fixed-point iterations and application to phase retrieval Chair: Minh Dao
Friday, 30 November
9:00–9:30 Arrivals and informal discussion
9:30–10:30 Ewa Bednarczuk, On differential variational inequalities associated with solution schemes for solving maximally monotone inclusion problems
Keynote talk
Chair: Bui Thi Hoa
10:30–11:00 Morning tea
11:00–12:00 Julien Ugon, Conditions for globally best piecewise polynomial approximation Chair: Nguyen Duy Cuong
12:00–12:30 Nadia Sukhorukova, Solving clustering problems through Linear programming and applications
12:00–12:30 David Yost, Ancient transversality
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:00 Andrew Eberhard, On the FPV property, Monotone operator structure and the Monotone Polar of Representable Monotone Sets Chair: Hieu Thao Nguyen
14:00–14:30 Ngai Huynh Van, Directional Metric Regularity of Multifunctions
14:30–15:00 Minh Dao, Union averaged operators with applications to proximal algorithms for min-convex functions
15:00–15:30 Vera Roshchina, On higher order Voronoi cells
15:30–16:30 Afternoon Tea
16:30–17:30 Michel Théra, The Campanato nearness condition revisited
Jon Borwein remote presentation
Chair: Alex Kruger
Saturday 1 December (at RMIT)
9:30–11:00 Open Problem session Chair: Vera Roshchina