September 22 (Mon)

Norbert Trautmann, University of Bern

Batching and Scheduling of Multi-stage Multi-product Batch Plants in the Chemical Industry: A Sequential Approach (abstract)

September 29 (Mon)

Yurii Nesterov, Catholic University of Louvain

Primal-dual Interior-Point Methods with Asymmetric Barriers (abstract, slides in pdf)

October 6 (Mon)

Franz Rendl, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

Copositive Programs: Applications and Algorithms (abstract in pdf, slides in pdf)

October 13 (Mon)

Raphael Hauser, Oxford University

A new perspective on the complexity of interior point methods for linear programming (abstract, slides in pdf)

October 20 (Mon)

Friedrich Eisenbrand, EPFL

Realtime Scheduling, Bin Packing and Directed Diophantine Approximation (abstract)

October 27 (Mon)

Mircea Lazar, Eindhoven University of Technology

Flexible Control Lyapunov Functions (abstract in pdf, slides in pdf)

November 3 (Mon)

Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT

Robust and adaptive optimization: A tractable approach to optimization under uncertainty (abstract)

November 10 (Mon)

Aris Daniilidis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Generalized Lojasiewicz inequality: characterizations and consequences in the asymptotic analysis of gradient systems and in gradient-type algorithms (abstract in pdf)

November 17 (Mon)

Stephan Bütikofer, ZHAW

Globalizing a nonsmooth Newton method via path search (abstract in pdf)

November 24 (Mon)

Nicolai Hähnle, EPFL

Combinatorial abstractions for the diameter of polyhedra (abstract, slides in pdf)

December 1 (Mon)

No Seminar (Talk of Frank Neumann is postponed to Spring 2009)

December 8 (Mon)

Karl Schmedders, University of Zurich

Competitive Equilibria in Semi-algebraic Economies (abstract, slides in pdf, paper in pdf )

December 15 (Mon)

Michael Schürle, University of St. Gallen

Stochastic Programming and Asset Liability Management (abstract)