ICERM

Semidefinite Programming and Graph Algorithms (February 10-14, 2014)

Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2013

Organizing Committee

Monique Laurent
(CWI and Tilburg University, Netherlands)
David Phillips
(United States Naval Academy)
David Steurer
(Cornell University)
Kilian Weinberger
(Washington University, St Louis)

[Image courtesy of Philipp Rostalski]

Description

Semidefinite programming is playing an ever increasing role in many areas of computer science and mathematics, including complexity theory, approximation algorithms for hard graph problems, discrete geometry, machine learning, and extremal combinatorics.

This workshop will bring together researchers from these different fields. The goal is to explore connections, learn and share techniques, and build bridges.

Speaker and Participant List (* = Speaker)

John Augustine
(Madras Institute of Technology)
Chen Avin
(Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Christine Bachoc *
(Université de Bordeaux I)
Nikhil Bansal *
(Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
Boaz Barak *
(Microsoft Research)
Andrea Bertozzi
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Xavier Bresson
(University of Hong Kong)
Mihai Cucuringu
(Princeton University)
Selim Esedoglu
(University of Michigan)
Arjuna Flenner
(Office of Naval Research)
Kyle Fox
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Michel Goemans *
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Elad Hazan *
(Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
Huiyi Hu
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Blake Hunter
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Satyen Kale*
(IBM)
Jonathan Kelner *
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Philip Klein
(Brown University)
Ionnis Koutis
(University of Puerto Rico)
Jean Lasserre *
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
Monique Laurent
(Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI))
Thomas Laurent
(University of California, Riverside)
Anthony Man-Cho So *
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Claire Mathieu *
(Brown University)
Ekaterina Merkurjev
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Danupon Nanongkai
(Nanyang Technological University)
Assaf Naor *
(Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

Ryan ODonnell *
(Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Gopal Pandurangan
(Nanyang Technological University)
Pablo Parrilo *
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Geppino Pucci
(Università di Padova)
Prasad Raghavendra *
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Benjamin Recht*
(University of Wisconsin)
Amanda Redlich
(Rutgers University)
David Shmoys
(Cornell University)
Amit Singer*
(Princeton University)
Dejan Slepcev
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Renata Sotirov *
(Katholieke Universiteit Brabant (Tilburg University))
David Steurer
(Cornell University)
Arthur Szlam
(City College, CUNY)
Xue-Cheng Tai
(University of Bergen)
Rekha Thomas*
(University of Washington)
Charalampos Tsourakakis
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Eli Upfal
(Brown University)
Frank Vallentin *
(Technische Universiteit te Delft)
Kevin Vixie
(Washington State University)
Ulrike von Luxburg
(Universität Hamburg)
Stephanie Wehner *
(National University of Singapore)
Kilian Weinberger
(Washington University)
Grigory Yaroslavtsev
(Pennsylvania State University)
Hang Zhou
(École Normale Supérieure)