ICCOPT2025USC

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Summer School - Opening Remarks Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) 123

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Summer School - Course 1: Distributed secure and privacy-aware optimization Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) 123Meisam Razaviyayn

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Summer School - Lunch 1 Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) Patio

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Summer School - Course 2: Nonconvex stochastic optimization Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) 123Ying Cui

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Summer School - Course 3: Recent advances in continuous optimization for discrete problems Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) 123Jon Lee

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Summer School - Lunch 2 Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) Patio

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Summer School - Course 4: Variational analysis and computation Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) 123Johannes Royset

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Conference Early Check In Trousdale Quadrant 4

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ICCOPT Conference Welcome Mixer (Conference badges needed) California Science Center

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Auditorium opens for seating USC Bovard Auditorium Check In Trousdale Quadrant 4

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Opening Remarks USC Bovard Auditorium

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Plenary 1 USC Bovard AuditoriumStephen J. Wright

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Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

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Parallel Sessions 1A: Optimization and Resilience in the Power Grid Taper Hall (THH) 101Madeleine Udell • Harsha Nagarajan • Steven Diamond • Wenqi Cui Parallel Sessions 1B: Regularization Methods for stochastic operator splitting dynamics Taper Hall (THH) 201Quoc Tran-Dinh • Rodrigo Maulen • Mathias Staudigl Parallel Sessions 1C: Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization I Taper Hall (THH) 208Albert Berahas • Zhichao Jia • Abraar Chaudhry Parallel Sessions 1D: GPU-Accelerated Mathematical Programming (Part 1) Taper Hall (THH) 210Defeng Sun • Jinwen Yang • Haihao Lu Parallel Sessions 1E: Large-scale Optimization Algorithms and Implementations Taper Hall (THH) 212Michael Saunders • Dominique Orban • Johannes Brust • Zequn Zheng Parallel Sessions 1F: Optimization as the Engine of Generative AI - I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Theertha Suresh • Connor Lawless • Yinbin Han Parallel Sessions 1G: Robust decision making in dynamic environments Taper Hall (THH) 114Radek Salac • Tobias Sutter • Negar Soheili • Mengmeng Li Parallel Sessions 1H: Frontiers of Optimization for Machine Learning - Part I Taper Hall (THH) 116Andre Milzarek • Johannes Royset • Vivak Patel • Fred Roosta Parallel Sessions 1I: Nonconvex Optimization and Applications Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Marten Soer • Imre Polik • Hao Hu • Bissan Ghaddar Parallel Sessions 1J: Distributed Optimization and Learning Taper Hall (THH) 102César Uribe • Yangyang Xu • Shi Pu • Emre Sahinoglu Parallel Sessions 1K: Optimization for GenAI -- diffusion models and LLMs Taper Hall (THH) 118Minshuo Chen • Wenpin Tang • Hanyang Zhao • Nanshan Jia Parallel Sessions 1L: Applications of polynomial optimization to data analysis I Taper Hall (THH) 119Lucas Slot • Srećko Ðurašinović • Oumayma Khattabi • Victor Magron Parallel Sessions 1M: Optimization Method Generation with Large Language Models Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Wenhao Li • Jun Luo • Xiangfeng Wang Parallel Sessions 1N: Optimization for Robotics I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Anton Pozharskiy • Wilson Jallet • Pieter Pas • Panos Patrinos Parallel Sessions 1O: Optimization For Data Science Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Stephan Wojtowytsch • Mihaela Rosca • Zebang Shen • Niao He Parallel Sessions 1P: Advances in large-scale nonlinear optimization for data science Taper Hall (THH) 106Jiawei Zhang • Lijun Ding • Yasa Syed • Yura Malitsky Parallel Sessions 1Q: Optimization with Approximate or Uncertain Models Taper Hall (THH) 214Bart van Bloemen Waanders • Stefan Ulbrich • Matthias Heinkenschloss Parallel Sessions 1R: Advances in Riemannian Optimization: Algorithms and Applications Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Chang He • Andi Han • Zihao Hu • Jiaxiang Li Parallel Sessions 1S: Advances in Semidefinite Programming: Relaxations, Hierarchies, and Optimization Techniques Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Hong-Ming Chiu • Sunyoung Kim • Makoto Yamashita Parallel Sessions 1T: Recent Advances in Stochastic Optimization: Complexity, Adaptivity, and Nonsmooth Extensions (I) Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Sen Na • Miaolan Xie • Baoyu Zhou • Zhaosong Lu Parallel Sessions 1U: Recent Advances in Fixed-Point Methods and Stability in Optimization Problems Taper Hall (THH) 108Kaihuang Chen • Chao Ding • Shiwei Wang • Guojun Zhang Parallel Sessions 1V: Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and Variants Taper Hall (THH) 110Aleksandr Lobanov • Melinda Hagedorn • Hengxu Yu Parallel Sessions 1W: Adaptive and Accelerated First-Order Methods Taper Hall (THH) 112Wenzhi Gao • Tao Jiang • Jaewook J. Suh Parallel Sessions 1X: Advances in Optimization for AI: From Theory to Practice Taper Hall (THH) 215ELHoucine BERGOU • Xin Li • Amrit Singh Bedi • Hanqin Cai Parallel Sessions 1Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Lunch 1 (provided Mediterranean buffet ) USC Founder's / Hutton Park

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Parallel Sessions 2A: Advances in Solving Large-Scale Problems: Accelerated Methods and Sharp Analyses (II) Taper Hall (THH) 101Ruichen Jiang • Tianjiao Li • Qi Wang • Liwei Jiang Sen Na Parallel Sessions 2B: Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Optimization and Games- Part I Taper Hall (THH) 201Farzad Yousefian • Angelia Nedich • Gesualdo Scutari • Zhuoyu Xiao Parallel Sessions 2C: Recent Advances in Theory and Algorithms for Multiagent Systems Taper Hall (THH) 208Zaiwei Chen • Alex Deweese • Andrew Liu Parallel Sessions 2D: Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization II Taper Hall (THH) 210Frank E. Curtis • Raghu Bollapragada • Sadok Jerad • Mike O'Neill Parallel Sessions 2E: Efficient Optimization Methods for LLMs (Part I) Taper Hall (THH) 212Ruoyu Sun • Zhenyu Zhang • Lechao Xiao Parallel Sessions 2F: Quantum Linear Algebra and Optimization (Part 1)) Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Sicheng He • Tamas Terlaky • Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi • Adrian Harkness Parallel Sessions 2G: Recent progresses in derivative-free optimization I Taper Hall (THH) 114Katya Scheinberg • Raghu Pasupathy • Cunxin Huang Parallel Sessions 2H: Optimization as the Engine of Generative AI - II Taper Hall (THH) 116Ge Liu • Ahmad Beirami • Renyuan Xu Parallel Sessions 2I: Frontiers of Optimization for Machine Learning - Part II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Sen Na • Jean Honorio • Vivak Patel • Fred Roosta Parallel Sessions 2J: Optimization in Control - Algorithms and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 102Sridharakumar Narasimhan • Prachi Shah • Saif Kazi • Arvind Raghunathan Parallel Sessions 2K: Recent advances in matrix optimization Taper Hall (THH) 118Fuxiaoyue Feng • Yangjing Zhang • Chao Ding • Xinyuan Zhao Parallel Sessions 2L: Decision-Aware Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 119Yichun Hu • Irina Wang • Vishal Gupta Parallel Sessions 2M: Applications of polynomial optimization to data analysis II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Antonios Varvitsiotis • Yong Sheng Soh • Quoc-Tung Le Parallel Sessions 2N: Optimization for Robotics II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Tobia Marcucci • Evangelos Theodorou • Roland Andrews • Panos Patrinos Parallel Sessions 2O: Optimization in Global Health Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Peng Zheng • Nora Gilbertson • Ariane Ducellier • Aleksandr Aravkin Parallel Sessions 2P: Techniques of PDE Optimization in Machine Learning Taper Hall (THH) 106Anton Schiela • Lorenzo Liverani • Frederik Koehne • Aurya Javeed Parallel Sessions 2Q: New Riemannian Optimization Applications Taper Hall (THH) 214Jiang Hu • Chao Yang • Jiayuan Wu Parallel Sessions 2R: Theoretical and computational advances in nonconvex optimization via convex relaxations and distributionally robust optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Lennart Sinjorgo • E. Alper Yildirim • Daniel de Vicente Parallel Sessions 2S: Robust Machine Learning Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Yuxuan Han • Jenny Huang • Zixuan Zhang Parallel Sessions 2T: Manifold optimization with special metrics I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Xiaohui Chen • Tasuku Soma • André Uschmajew Parallel Sessions 2U: Advances in Domain-Specific Languages for Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 108Steven Diamond • Paul Jackson • Philipp Schiele • William Zhang Parallel Sessions 2V: Nonsmooth stochastic optimization and variational inequalities Taper Hall (THH) 110Hailin Sun • Wei Bian • Chao Zhang Parallel Sessions 2W: Variance-Related Issues in Stochastic Optimization Methods Taper Hall (THH) 112Yue Wu • Yin Liu Parallel Sessions 2X: Proximal Methods and Splitting Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 215Min Tao • Minxin Zhang • Mikhail Solodov Parallel Sessions 2Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

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Parallel Semi-Plenary Talk 1A Taper Hall (THH) 101Lin Xiao Parallel Semi-Plenary Talk 1B Taper Hall (THH) 201Jérôme Bolte

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Parallel Sessions 3A: Advances in Solving Large-Scale Problems: Accelerated Methods and Sharp Analyses (I) Taper Hall (THH) 101Madeleine Udell • Michał Dereziński • Sen Na • Mateo Díaz • Liwei Jiang Parallel Sessions 3B: Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Optimization and Games- Part II Taper Hall (THH) 201Bohan Wu • Marie Maros • Angelia Nedich • Gesualdo Scutari Parallel Sessions 3C: Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization III Taper Hall (THH) 208Michael O'Neill • Baoyu Zhou • Daniel P. Robinson • Abhishek Chakraborty Parallel Sessions 3D: Semidefinite Programming - Theory and Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 210Ting Kei Pong • Anita Varga • Hao Hu • Gabor Pataki Parallel Sessions 3E: Efficient Optimization Methods for LLMs (Part II) Taper Hall (THH) 212Francesco Orabona • Xiao Li • Frank Schneider Parallel Sessions 3F: Advances in commercial solvers Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Steven Dirkse • Robert Luce • Shengchao Lin • Richard Waltz Parallel Sessions 3G: Special Session in Honor of Suvrajeet Sen: Sampling-based Methods in Stochastic Programming Taper Hall (THH) 114Di Zhang • Harsha Gangammanavar • Tian Xia Parallel Sessions 3H: Recent Advances in Large-scale Optimization I Taper Hall (THH) 116Jong-Shi Pang • Rahul Mazumder • Salar Fattahi Parallel Sessions 3I: Large-scale optimization for data science Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Babak Hassibi • Ethan Epperly • Jason Altschuler • Jai Moondra Parallel Sessions 3J: Frontiers of Optimization for Machine Learning - Part III Taper Hall (THH) 102Michael Mahoney • Matus Telgarsky • Fred Roosta • Christopher de Sa Parallel Sessions 3K: Recent advances in federated learning Taper Hall (THH) 118Yijiang Li • Charikleia Iakovidou • Baris Askin • Minseok Ryu Parallel Sessions 3L: Bilevel Optimization for Inverse Problems Part 1 Taper Hall (THH) 119Michael Hintermuller • Juan Carlos de los Reyes • Tuomo Valkonen • Christian Daniele Parallel Sessions 3M: Optimization Applications in Energy Systems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Mihai Anitescu • Sungho Shin • Dirk Lauinger • Anirudh Subramanyam Parallel Sessions 3O: Fast Algorithms for Data Science Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Mustafa Celebi Pinar • Shota Takahashi • Kansei Ushiyama Parallel Sessions 3P: Fast Algorithmic Frameworks for Semidefinite Programming and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 106Yuehaw Khoo • Shucheng Kang • Tianyun Tang • Ling Liang Parallel Sessions 3Q: Manifold optimization with special metrics II Taper Hall (THH) 214Tatjana Stykel • Hang Wang • Ralf Zimmermann • Max Pfeffer Parallel Sessions 3R: Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Heinz Bauschke • Radu Ioan Boț • Walaa Moursi • Xianfu Wang Parallel Sessions 3S: Recent Advances on PDE-constrained optimization packages and libraries: Part II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Noemi Petra • Lindsey Heagy • Umberto Villa • TBA TBA Parallel Sessions 3T: Derivative-free optimization for special classes of problems I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Zaikun Zhang • Clément Royer • Gabriel Jarry-Bolduc Parallel Sessions 3U: Quantum Linear Algebra and Optimization (Part 2) Taper Hall (THH) 108Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi • Maria Isabel Franco Garrido • Sophia Simon Parallel Sessions 3V: Mechanism and Pricing Designs in Stochastic Decision Making Taper Hall (THH) 110Henri Lefebvre • Yutian He • Frédy Pokou Parallel Sessions 3W: Machine Learning - Privacy and Learning Theory Taper Hall (THH) 112Dmitrii Ostrovskii • Devansh Gupta • Philip Thompson Parallel Sessions 3X: Learning, Robustness, and Fairness Taper Hall (THH) 215Phebe Vayanos • Cagil Kocyigit • Qingshi Sun Parallel Sessions 3Y: The Carlsson Convergence Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200Erik Carlsson • Gunnar Carlsson • John Carlsson

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Best Paper Session Taper Hall (THH) 101Naoki Marumo • Guy Kornowski • Lai Tian

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Auditorium Opens Doors for seating USC Bovard Auditorium

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Plenary 2 USC Bovard AuditoriumKim-Chuan Toh

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Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

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Parallel Sessions 4A: Progress in Nonsmooth Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 101Feng Ruan • Ying Cui • X.Y. Han Parallel Sessions 4B: Optimization for Neural Network Pruning and Quantization Taper Hall (THH) 201Yiwei Lu • Jianhao Ma • Lin Xiao Parallel Sessions 4C: Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization IV Taper Hall (THH) 208Albert Berahas • Wanping Dong • Shagun Gupta • Yash Kumar Parallel Sessions 4D: Recent Advances in Large-scale Optimization II Taper Hall (THH) 210Yao Xie • Yuejie Chi • Salar Fattahi • Qing Qu Parallel Sessions 4E: Random subspace algorithms in optimization Taper Hall (THH) 212Akiko Takeda • Jiaming Yang • Pierre-Louis Poirion Parallel Sessions 4F: Contextual Stochastic Optimization under Streaming Data and Decision Dependency Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Guzin Bayraksan • Xian Yu • Suvrajeet Sen Parallel Sessions 4G: Analysis and Design of First Order Methods for Convex Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 114Ernest Ryu • Bartolomeo Stellato • Jisun Park • Vinit Ranjan Parallel Sessions 4H: Advances in Network Optimization and Cooperative Learning Taper Hall (THH) 116Shahrzad Haddadan • Daniel Burbano • Alex Zalles • Cesar A Uribe Parallel Sessions 4I: Optimization for Large Language Models and Kernels Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Banghua Zhu • Kyuseong Choi • Yue Wu • Ming Yin Parallel Sessions 4J: (Canceled)Dynamic Optimization: Deterministic and Stochastic Continuous-time Models I Taper Hall (THH) 102Nicolás Hernández • Othmane Jerhaoui • Cristopher Hermosilla Parallel Sessions 4K: Convex approaches to SDP Taper Hall (THH) 118Yong Sheng Soh • Lieven Vandenberghe • Richard Zhang • Nathan Benedetto Proenca Parallel Sessions 4L: First-order methods for nonsmooth optimization Taper Hall (THH) 119Hanyang Li • Guy Kornowski • Digvijay Boob • Swati Padmanabhan Parallel Sessions 4M: Bilevel Optimization for Inverse Problems Part 2 Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Marco Prato • Juan Carlos de los Reyes • Akwum Onwunta Parallel Sessions 4N: Derivative-free stochastic optimization methods I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Kwassi Joseph Dzahini • Greta Malaspina • Stefan Wild Parallel Sessions 4O: Feasible and infeasible methods for optimization on manifolds I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Bin Gao • Xin Liu • Andi Han • Yukuan Hu Parallel Sessions 4P: Recent Advances in Conic Optimization and Machine Learning Taper Hall (THH) 106Keiyu Nosaka • Mitsuhiro Nishijima • Godai Azuma Parallel Sessions 4Q: Moment-SOS Hierarchy: From Theory to Computation in the Real World (I) Taper Hall (THH) 214Jie Wang • Heng Yang • Dávid Papp • Ling Liang Parallel Sessions 4R: Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Stephen Simons • Jon Vanderwerff • Walaa Moursi • Gerald Beer Parallel Sessions 4S: Recent Advances on PDE-constrained optimization packages and libraries : Part I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Denis Ridzal • Noemi Petra • Ahmed Attia • Andreas Mang Parallel Sessions 4T: Parametric Optimization Problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Xiaoqi Yang • Kaiwen Meng • Shengkun Zhu Parallel Sessions 4U: Computational Frameworks and Applications: Hybridizing Continuous and Discrete Optimization in Practice Taper Hall (THH) 108Thibaut Cuvelier • Todd Mcdevitt • Jordan Jalving • E. Soraya Rawlings • Marta D'Elia Parallel Sessions 4V: Recent advances in open-source continuous solvers Taper Hall (THH) 110Filippo Zanetti • Charlie Vanaret • David Kiessling Parallel Sessions 4W: Nonsmooth Optimization - Theory and Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 112Daniel Ralph • Jingfu Tan • Shaoning Han Parallel Sessions 4X: Algorithms for Nonconvex Problems Taper Hall (THH) 215Aharonl Ben-Tal • Michel De Lara • Yulin Peng Parallel Sessions 4Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Lunch 2 (provided Taco buffet ) USC Founder's / Hutton Park

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Parallel Sessions 5A: Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization V Taper Hall (THH) 101Raghu Bollapragada • Karl Welzel • Jiahao Shi • Di Yu Parallel Sessions 5B: Continuous and Discrete Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 201Jamie Haddock • Emily Speakman • Mohit Tawarmalani • Marcia Fampa Parallel Sessions 5C: AI Meets Optimization (Part 1) Taper Hall (THH) 208Bartolomeo Stellato • Jialin Liu • Wotao Yin • Howard Heaton Parallel Sessions 5D: Recent advances in algorithms for large-scale optimization (I) Taper Hall (THH) 210Zirui Zhou • Xudong Li • Yancheng Yuan • Meixia Lin Parallel Sessions 5E: Advances in Mixed-Integer Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 212Alberto Del Pia • Jean-Philippe Richard • Phillip Kerger • Luze Xu Parallel Sessions 5F: Adaptive Methods Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Oliver Hinder • Ashok Cutkosky • Ilyas Fatkhullin • Junchi Yang Parallel Sessions 5G: Recent Advances in Large-scale Optimization III Taper Hall (THH) 114Andres Gomez • Xuan Zhang • Salar Fattahi • Ahmet Alacaoglu Parallel Sessions 5H: Preference Robust Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 116Bo Lin • Wenjie Huang • Sainan Zhang Parallel Sessions 5I: (Canceled)Dynamic Optimization: Deterministic and Stochastic Continuous-time Models II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Nathalie Khalil • Karla Cortez • Jorge Becerril • Cristopher Hermosilla Parallel Sessions 5J: Models and Algorithms for Optimization with Rare Events Taper Hall (THH) 102Henry Lam • Michael Chertkov • Anirudh Subramanyam • Jaeseok Choi Parallel Sessions 5K: First-order methods for nonsmooth and constrained optimization problems Taper Hall (THH) 118Mohammad Khalafi • Digvijay Boob • Aaron Zoll • Zhe Zhang Parallel Sessions 5L: Optimization for Machine Learning and AI Taper Hall (THH) 119Gang Li • Jasper Liao • Tianbao Yang • Qihang Lin Parallel Sessions 5M: Recent progresses in derivative-free optimization II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Jeffrey Larson • Pengcheng Xie Parallel Sessions 5N: Optimization on Riemannian manifolds and stratified sets (1/2) Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Guillaume Olikier • Joe Kileel • Foivos Alimisis Parallel Sessions 5O: Global Optimization Theory and Algorithms Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Suhan Zhong • Jourdain Lamperski • Sergiy Butenko Parallel Sessions 5P: Feasible and infeasible methods for optimization on manifolds II Taper Hall (THH) 106Bin Gao • Lei Wang • Di Hou • Nachuan Xiao Parallel Sessions 5Q: Moment-SOS Hierarchy: From Theory to Computation in the Real World (II) Taper Hall (THH) 214Jie Wang • Xin Jiang • Giovanni Fantuzzi • Feng-Yi Liao Parallel Sessions 5R: Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications III Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Sedi Bartz • TaeHo Yoon • Walaa Moursi Parallel Sessions 5S: Semidefinite Relaxations in Inference Problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Shuyang Ling • Junyu Chen • Yong Sheng Soh • Cheng Mao Parallel Sessions 5T: Optimization for Approximation, Estimation, and Control Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Heng Yang • Iven Guzel • Zhaonan Qu • Martin Andersen Parallel Sessions 5U: Quantum Computing and Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 108Reuben Tate • Sean Feeney • Yufan Zheng Parallel Sessions 5V: Newton-ish and Higher-Order Methods Taper Hall (THH) 110Oscar Smee • Nick Tsipinakis Parallel Sessions 5W: Systems of Quadratic Equations/Inequalities Taper Hall (THH) 112Ruey-Lin Sheu • Min-Chi Wang • Ting-Tsen Lin Parallel Sessions 5X: Modeling, Solvers, and Quantum Taper Hall (THH) 215David Gay • Olivier Huber • Giacomo Nannicini Parallel Sessions 5Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

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Parallel Semi-Plenary Talk 2A Taper Hall (THH) 101John Duchi Parallel Semi-Plenary Talk 2B Taper Hall (THH) 201Angelika Wiegele

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Parallel Sessions 6A: Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Methods Taper Hall (THH) 101Aaron Defazio • Yuxing Liu • Antonio Orvieto • Lin Xiao Parallel Sessions 6B: Machine Learning Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 201Mark Schmidt • John Duchi • Yaoliang Yu • Courtney Paquette Parallel Sessions 6C: AI Meets Optimization (Part 2) Taper Hall (THH) 208Jan Drgona • Jialin Liu • Samy Wu Fung • Wotao Yin Parallel Sessions 6D: Recent advances in algorithms for large-scale optimization (II) Taper Hall (THH) 210Xudong Li • Chao Ding • Rujun Jiang Parallel Sessions 6E: Optimization for improving privacy and alignment for LLMs Taper Hall (THH) 212Mingyi Hong • Xinwei Zhang • Siliang Zeng • Luca Viano Parallel Sessions 6F: Special Session in Honor of Suvrajeet Sen: Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Lewis Ntaimo • Simge Kucukyavuz • Cole Smith Parallel Sessions 6G: Advances in Data-driven Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 114Daniel Kuhn • Luhao Zhang • Man-Chung Yue • Rui Gao Parallel Sessions 6H: Semidefinite programming and applications Taper Hall (THH) 116Ryan Cory-Wright • Cemil Dibek • Georgina Hall Parallel Sessions 6I: Advances in Conic Optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Bo Peng • Timotej Hrga • Ian Sugrue Parallel Sessions 6J: Continuous and discreate optimization solving real problems Taper Hall (THH) 102Alexander Guldemond • Allen George Philip • Olga Heijmans-Kuryatnikova • Julio C Góez Parallel Sessions 6K: Applications To Signal Processing Taper Hall (THH) 118Jefferson Huang • Roummel Marcia • Peter Barkley • Robert Bassett Parallel Sessions 6L: Alternative and Hybrid Algorithms in Quantum Computing for Optimization and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 119Bo Peng • Xiu Yang • Yunfan Zeng Parallel Sessions 6M: Data-Driven Decision and Control Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Rayadurgam Srikant • Laixi Shi • Liviu Aolaritei • Guannan Qu Parallel Sessions 6N: The Role of Constraints in the Computational Complexity and Solvability of Optimization Problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Gabriele Farina • Tatjana Chavdarova • Manolis Zampetakis Parallel Sessions 6O: First-order methods for nonsmooth and constrained optimization - II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Wei Liu • Digvijay Boob • Manish Krishan • Zhe (Jimmy) Zhang Parallel Sessions 6P: Recent Advances in PDE-Constrained Optimizatin Taper Hall (THH) 106Caroline Geiersbach • Johannes Haubner • Michael Ulbrich Parallel Sessions 6Q: Optimization on Riemannian manifolds and stratified sets (2/2) Taper Hall (THH) 214Guillaume Olikier • Bin Gao • Charlotte Vermeylen • Renfeng Peng Parallel Sessions 6R: Recent Advances in Stochastic Optimization: Complexity, Adaptivity, and Nonsmooth Extensions (II) Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Sen Na • Sungho Shin • Andy Sun • Zhaosong Lu • Tianbao Yang Parallel Sessions 6S: Recent Adavances in Interval Arithmetic based Methods Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Victor Reyes Rodriguez • Ignacio Araya • Frédéric Messine • Frederic Messine Parallel Sessions 6T: Multi-agent learning in games and markets Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Bryce Ferguson • Devansh Jalota • Manxi Wu Parallel Sessions 6U: Randomized optimization algorithms 1/2 Taper Hall (THH) 108Cheik Traoré • Ilyas Fatkhullin • Lionel Tondji • Laurent Condat Parallel Sessions 6V: Applications of derivative-free optimization Taper Hall (THH) 110Juliane Müller • Filippo Marini • Charlotte Beauthier Parallel Sessions 6W: Trust-Region Methods Taper Hall (THH) 112Mohamed Laghdaf Habiboullah • Olga Brezhneva • Fabian Bastin Parallel Sessions 6X: Stochastic Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 215Yulei You • Chhavi Sharma • Honghao Zhang Parallel Sessions 6Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Poster Session Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) PatioJie Wang • Hassan Nojavan • Matias Villagra • Xiaokai Chen • Paula John • Dan Greenstein • Aaron Mishkin • Hajg Jasa • Tianyu Cao • Henry Graven • Zhiyuan Zhang • Jialu Bao • Can Chen • Chengpiao Huang • Smajil Halilovic • Edward Nguyen

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Auditorium Opens Doors for seating USC Bovard Auditorium

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Plenary 3 USC Bovard AuditoriumClaudia Sagastizábal

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Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

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Parallel Sessions 7A: Optimization Methods for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Networks (I) Taper Hall (THH) 101Urbashi Mitra • Chandra Murthy • Kaiming Shen • Ya-Feng Liu Parallel Sessions 7B: Relaxations for non-convex optimization Taper Hall (THH) 201Soroosh Shafiee • Andres Gomez • Jisun Lee • Chen Chen Parallel Sessions 7C: Duality in Optimization for Data Science Taper Hall (THH) 208Stephen J. Wright • Jiawei Zhang • Michael Friedlander • Ahmet Alacaoglu • Rahul Parhi • Yura Malitsky Parallel Sessions 7D: Service or Scientific Contribution? Promoting and Recognizing Best Review Practices Taper Hall (THH) 210Katya Scheinberg • Frank E. Curtis • Benjamin Grimmer • Clément Royer • Jérôme Bolte • Tim Hoheisel • Giacomo Nannicini Parallel Sessions 7E: Robust optimization for sequential decision-making Taper Hall (THH) 212Shengbo Wang • Marek Petrik • Julien Grand-Clément Parallel Sessions 7F: GPU-Accelerated Mathematical Programming (Part II) Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Alexis Montoison • Zedong Peng • Haihao Lu • Qiushi Han Parallel Sessions 7G: Statistical and Computational Aspects of Multi-Agent Games Taper Hall (THH) 114Kaiqing Zhang • Weiqiang Zheng • Zhuoran Yang • Ashkan Soleymani Parallel Sessions 7H: Recent advances in optimization and statistical estimation on manifolds Taper Hall (THH) 116Abhishek Roy • Molei Tao • Krishna Balasubramanian • Yunrui Guan Parallel Sessions 7I: Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications IV Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Jonathan Eckstein • Walaa Moursi • Shambhavi Singh Parallel Sessions 7J: Discrete Structures in Nonlinear Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 102Liding Xu • Aaresh Bhathena • Yongchun Li • Qimeng / Kim Yu Parallel Sessions 7K: Stability and Robustness in Statistical Learning Taper Hall (THH) 118Kaizheng Wang • Louis Chen • Robert Bassett Parallel Sessions 7L: optimization with variational inequality constraints Taper Hall (THH) 119Jin Zhang • Xue Xie • Wei Yao Parallel Sessions 7M: Nonsmooth PDE Constrained Optimization: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications Part 1 Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Harbir Antil • Olena Melnikov • Konstantin Pieper • Denis Ridzal Parallel Sessions 7N: Derivative-free stochastic optimization methods II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Sara Shashaani • Matt Menickelly • Krishnakumar Balasubramanian Parallel Sessions 7O: Nonconvex optimization with applications in high-dimensional statistics Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Akshay Ramachandran • Andrew McRae • Liwei Jiang Parallel Sessions 7P: Advances in Nonlinear Optimization Methods and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 106Fadi Hamad • Chuwen Zhang • Chengchang Liu • Wenqi Zhu Parallel Sessions 7Q: Quantum algorithms and optimization Taper Hall (THH) 214Sander Gribling • Arjan Cornelissen • Chenyi Zhang Parallel Sessions 7R: Algebraic Methods in Optimization (Part 2) Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Kevin Shu • Elvira Moreno Ferreira • Chenyang Yuan Parallel Sessions 7S: Any-dimensional symmetric optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Eitan Levin • Daniel Brosch • Sven Polak Parallel Sessions 7T: Algorithms for Optimization and Equilibrium Models in Energy Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Paulo Silva • Dominic Flocco • Mel Devine Parallel Sessions 7U: Randomized optimization algorithms 2/2 Taper Hall (THH) 108Alp Yurtsever • Ilaria Trombini • Titus Pinta • Laurent Condat Parallel Sessions 7V: First-order Methods for Riemannian Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 110David Gutman • Shahin Shahrampour • Chenliang Li Parallel Sessions 7W: Minimax Optimization Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 112Jaeyeon Kim • Jiseok Chae • Kyuwon Kim Parallel Sessions 7X: Constraint Qualification and Error Bound Taper Hall (THH) 215Meisam Razaviyayn • Mariana da Rosa Parallel Sessions 7Y: Pricing problems and variance reduction in a world of uncertainty Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200Kevin Huang • Kwei-Long Huang • Yu-Ching Le

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Lunch 3 (provided Asian buffet) USC Founder's / Hutton Park

1:15pm PDT

Parallel Sessions 8A: California to Amalfi Coast via Québec Taper Hall (THH) 101Anna Deza • Martina Cerulli • Kim Yu • Leo Liberti Parallel Sessions 8B: Manifolds, samples, and learning Taper Hall (THH) 201Laura Balzano • Shenuan Liang • Zehua Lai • Ralf Zimmermann Parallel Sessions 8C: Data-driven Methods for Optimization under Uncertainty Taper Hall (THH) 208Paul Grigas • Michael Huang • Meng Qi Parallel Sessions 8D: Performance Estimation Problem and Universal Methods Taper Hall (THH) 210Benjamin Grimmer • Jiaming Liang • Sam Davanloo Parallel Sessions 8E: Optimization Methods for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Networks (II) Taper Hall (THH) 212Christos Masouros • Tsung-hui Chang • Ya-Feng Liu • Wei Yu Parallel Sessions 8F: Multiagent Optimization and Games Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Shiqian Ma • Zhengyuan Zhou • Songtao Lu Parallel Sessions 8G: Modern Polynomial Optimization in Data Science I Taper Hall (THH) 114Xindong Tang • Jack Kendrick • Guoyin Li Parallel Sessions 8H: Federated optimization and learning algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 116Sebastian Stich • Paul Mangold • Ming Yan • Laurent Condat Parallel Sessions 8I: Mobility Data Modeling: Values, Security, and Privacy Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Yueyue Fan • Jeff Ban • Meisam Mohammady Parallel Sessions 8J: New Advances in Robust Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 102Noam Goldberg • Karthik Natarajan • Shimrit Shtern Parallel Sessions 8K: Learning in PDE-based optimization and control Taper Hall (THH) 118Dingcheng Luo • Levon Nurbekyan • Denis Korolev • Michael Hintermüller Parallel Sessions 8L: Derivative-free optimization for special classes of problems II Taper Hall (THH) 119Stephen Becker • Ana Luísa Custódio • Saeed Ghadimi Parallel Sessions 8M: Techniques for Solving High-Dimensional and Nonlinear Optimization Problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Zhuorui Li • Bowen Li • Jiyoung Choi • Wenqi Zhu Parallel Sessions 8N: Recent advances in first-order methods Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Naoki Marumo • Thabo Samakhoana • Tam Le • Lexiao Lai Parallel Sessions 8O: Optimization problems arising in quantum computing and physics Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Sankara Sai Chaithanya Rayudu • Felix Huber • Jamie Sikora • Ojas Parekh Parallel Sessions 8P: Algebraic Methods in Optimization (Part 1) Taper Hall (THH) 106Shixuan Zhang • Jiayi Li • Alex Dunbar Parallel Sessions 8Q: Splitting methods in multi-agent optimization Taper Hall (THH) 214David Torregrosa-Belén • Puya Latafat • Felipe Atenas Parallel Sessions 8R: Algorithms for structured Riemannian optimization problems I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Jiang Hu • Jinxin Wang • Linglingzhi Zhu • Andy Cheung Parallel Sessions 8S: Recent advances in mixed-integer programming Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Tong Xu • Yixuan Hua • Linchuan Wei • Tongtong Chen Parallel Sessions 8T: Advanced Techniques in Global Optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Leandro Maia • Sonia Cafieri • Sven Leyffer Parallel Sessions 8U: Splitting Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 108César López Pastor • Liam Timms • Rubén Campoy Parallel Sessions 8V: Quantum Computing and continuous optimization Taper Hall (THH) 110Yuxiang Peng • Wesley Dyk • David Bernal Neira • Pooya Ronagh Parallel Sessions 8W: Bilevel Optimization - Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 112Yuchen Lou • Dohyun Kwon • Mattia Solla Saez Parallel Sessions 8X: Recent Analysis in Proximal Algorithms and KL Exponents Taper Hall (THH) 215Xiaopeng Li • Junwen Qiu • Wenqing Ouyang Parallel Sessions 8Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

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Parallel Semi-Plenary Talk 3A Taper Hall (THH) 101Ruth Misener Parallel Semi-Plenary Talk 3B Taper Hall (THH) 201Anthony Man-Cho So

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Parallel Sessions 9A: Dynamic flexibility, risk-awareness, and mechanisms for price-quantity alignment in electricity markets Taper Hall (THH) 101Baptiste Rabecq • Andy Sun • Daniel Bienstock • John Birge Parallel Sessions 9B: Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Taper Hall (THH) 201Danial Davarnia • Ksenia Bestuzheva • Jan Kronqvist Parallel Sessions 9C: Fixed Point and Min-Max Theory in Data Science Taper Hall (THH) 208Stephen J. Wright • Roberto Cominetti • Haipeng Luo • Ahmet Alacaoglu • Matthew Tam • Yura Malitsky Parallel Sessions 9D: Manifolds, samples, and learning II Taper Hall (THH) 210Max Pfeffer • Simon Jacobsson • Du Nguyen • Ralf Zimmermann Parallel Sessions 9E: Recent Progress on Bilevel Optimization for Machine Learning Taper Hall (THH) 212Kaiyi Ji • Xuxing Chen • Jeongyeol Kwon • Tong Zhang Parallel Sessions 9F: Certified Data-Driven Optimization via the Scenario Approach Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Marco C. Campi • Simone Garatti • Tobias Sutter Parallel Sessions 9G: Aspects of NLP solver implementations Taper Hall (THH) 114Andreas Waechter • Robert Luce • Tangi Migot Parallel Sessions 9H: On Hierarchical Optimization, Games, and Federated Learning Taper Hall (THH) 116Farzad Yousefian • Yuyang Qiu • Sepideh Samadi • Krishnan Raghavan Parallel Sessions 9I: Convexity and First-Order Riemannian methods Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Christophe Roux • Christopher Criscitiello • David Martínez-Rubio Parallel Sessions 9J: Automatic Differentiation as a Tool for Computational Science Taper Hall (THH) 102William Moses • Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan • Shreyas Gaikwad Parallel Sessions 9K: Modern Polynomial Optimization in Data Science II Taper Hall (THH) 118Xindong Tang • Tingting Tang • Zi Yang • Wenqi Zhu Parallel Sessions 9L: Novel First-Order Methods via Performance Estimation I Taper Hall (THH) 119Shuvomoy Das Gupta • Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti • Alex Wang Parallel Sessions 9M: Randomized algorithms with applications to machine learning Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Kun Yuan • Anastasia Koloskova • Zaid Harchaoui • Laurent Condat Parallel Sessions 9N: Control and Optimization of AVs for Transportation Solutions Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Ruolin Li • Jeff Ban • Zhili Zhang • Shakiba Naderian Parallel Sessions 9O: Robustness in learning from data Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Andrew Lim • Anton Malandii • Jun-ya Gotoh Parallel Sessions 9P: Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming Taper Hall (THH) 106Yifan Hu • Caleb Ju • Hyuk Park Parallel Sessions 9Q: Infinite-dimensional and dynamic aspects in optimization under uncertainty Taper Hall (THH) 214Johannes Milz • Caroline Geiersbach • Philipp Guth • Piero Visconti Parallel Sessions 9R: Algorithms for structured Riemannian optimization problems II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Jiang Hu • Bo Jiang • Meng Xu • Xiongjun Zhang Parallel Sessions 9S: Robust Learning in Stochastic and Adaptive Environments Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Wenhao Yang • Chao Qin • Yueyang Liu • Jiajin Li Parallel Sessions 9T: Relaxations of Optimization Problems and Extreme Point Results in Infinite Dimensions Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Daniel Walter • Marcello Carioni • Thibaut Horel • Rahul Parhi Parallel Sessions 9U: Quantum Computing for combinatorial optimization Taper Hall (THH) 108Shouvanik Chakrabarti • Farhad Khosravi • David Bernal Neira • Niraj Kumar Parallel Sessions 9V: Modeling Oriented Software and Methods (1) Taper Hall (THH) 110Jean-Paul Watson • Bethany Nicholson • Robert Parker Parallel Sessions 9W: Bilevel Optimization - Applications Taper Hall (THH) 112Luce Brotcorne • Lesia Mitridati • Tommaso Giovannelli Parallel Sessions 9X: Conic and Semidefinite Programming (SDP) Taper Hall (THH) 215Marilena Palomba • Takashi Tsuchiya • Utkarsh Detha Parallel Sessions 9Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Break or End of day TBA

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Conference banquet (ADVANCED PURCHASE REQUIRED) Town & Gown USC

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Auditorium Opens Doors for seating USC Bovard Auditorium

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Last Day Remarks USC Bovard Auditorium

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Plenary 4 USC Bovard AuditoriumAlexandre d'Aspremont

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Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

10:30am PDT

Parallel Sessions 10A: AI Meets Optimization (Part 3) Taper Hall (THH) 101Ming Jin • Wotao Yin • Zhonglin Xie • Tianyou Li Parallel Sessions 10B: Special Session in Honor of Suvrajeet Sen: Nonsmooth Methods in Stochastic Programming Taper Hall (THH) 201Uday Shanbhag • Shuotao Diao • Junyi Liu Parallel Sessions 10C: Mixed-Integer Programming-Based Techniques for the Global Optimization of MINLPs Taper Hall (THH) 208Taotao He • Adrian Göß • Rohit Kannan Parallel Sessions 10D: Optimization Meets Generative AI: Insights and New Designs Taper Hall (THH) 210Minshuo Chen • Wenpin Tang • Mo Zhou • Yuqing Wang Parallel Sessions 10E: Data-Driven Optimization with Structured Models Taper Hall (THH) 212Tianhao Wang • Qijia Jiang • Mladen Kolar • Krishna Balasubramanian Parallel Sessions 10F: Optimisation and machine learning in energy Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Michael Lau • Yihang Zhang • Aron Brenner • Hongyu Zhang Parallel Sessions 10G: Novel First-Order Methods via Performance Estimation II Taper Hall (THH) 114Uijeong Jang • Manu Upadhyaya • Alex Wang • Jinho Bok Parallel Sessions 10H: Advances in Bilevel Optimization: Algorithms and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 116Xiaotian Jiang • Prashant Khanduri • Mingyi Hong • Jincheng Cao Parallel Sessions 10I: Advances in Variational Inequalities and Saddle Point Problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Wei Gu • Afrooz Jalilzadeh • Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani Parallel Sessions 10J: Randomized algorithms beyond minimization Taper Hall (THH) 102Emanuele Naldi • Ryan D'Orazio • Aritra Mitra • Laurent Condat Parallel Sessions 10K: Nonconvex methods and SDPs Taper Hall (THH) 118Amir Ali Ahmadi • Richard Zhang • Arnesh Sujanani • Florentin Goyens Parallel Sessions 10L: Optimization and Statistics at Scale Taper Hall (THH) 119Vasilis Charisopoulos • Henry Shugart • Mateo Diaz Parallel Sessions 10M: Advances in min-max optimization algorithms for machine learning Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Stephen J. Wright • Jelena Diakonikolas • Donghwan Kim • Ali Kavis • Ahmet Alacaoglu • Yura Malitsky Parallel Sessions 10N: Nonsmooth PDE Constrained Optimization: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications Part 3 Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Paul Manns • Harbir Antil • Robert Baraldi • Dohyun Kim Parallel Sessions 10O: Optimization on Manifolds Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Anton Schiela • Laura Weigl • Maurício Silva Louzeiro Parallel Sessions 10P: Advanced Computational Solvers 1 Taper Hall (THH) 106Carl Laird • Nils-Christian Kempke • Kuo-Ling Huang • Nai-Yuan Chiang Parallel Sessions 10Q: Quantum Methods for Optimization and Sampling Taper Hall (THH) 214Alexander Dalzell • Zherui Chen • Jiaqi Leng Parallel Sessions 10R: Advances in Modeling and Optimization for MDP and Optimal Control Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Jincheng Yang • Yashaswini Murthy • Yan Li • Minda Zhao Parallel Sessions 10S: Optimization on Manifolds Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Victor-Emmanuel Brunel • Christopher Criscitiello • Thomas Cohn • Brighton Ancelin Parallel Sessions 10T: Approximating derivatives in derivative-free optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Daniel McKenzie • Liyuan Cao • Timothé Taminiau Parallel Sessions 10U: Modeling Oriented Software and Methods (2) Taper Hall (THH) 108TBD TBD • Jean-Paul Watson • Georgia Stinchfield • Bashar Ammari Parallel Sessions 10V: Parallel and Distributed Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 110Guanglu Zhang • Artavazd Maranjyan • Michel Lahmann Parallel Sessions 10W Taper Hall (THH) 112 Parallel Sessions 10X Taper Hall (THH) 215 Parallel Sessions 10Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Lunch 4 (provided American BBQ buffet ) USC Founder's / Hutton Park

1:15pm PDT

Parallel Sessions 11A: First order methods in machine learning Taper Hall (THH) 101Mark Schmidt • Yaoliang Yu • Baoxiang Wang • Yufeng Yang Parallel Sessions 11C: Recent Advances in Stochastic First-Order Methods Taper Hall (THH) 208Guanghui Lan • Tianjiao Li • Yan Li • Wenlong Mou Parallel Sessions 11D: Nonmonontone inclusions and nonconvex optimization Taper Hall (THH) 210Dimitri Papadimitriou • Tuyen Tran • Vu Bang Parallel Sessions 11E: Quantum Computing and discrete continuous optimization Taper Hall (THH) 212Javier Pena • Brandon Augustino • David Bernal Neira Parallel Sessions 11F: SDPs and their applications across mathematics Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho • Pablo A. Parrilo • Jan Volec • Christoph Spiegel Parallel Sessions 11G: Bilevel Programming and applications Taper Hall (THH) 114Luce Brotcorne • Frederic Semet • Pablo Escalona Parallel Sessions 11H: Distributed Learning for Machine Learning Taper Hall (THH) 116Thinh Doan • Hoi-To Wai • Yanmeng Wang Parallel Sessions 11I: Privacy Preserving Collaborative Learning Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Tian Li • Kibaek Kim • Sai Praneeth Karimireddy Parallel Sessions 11J: Advances in first-order methods for large-scale optimization Taper Hall (THH) 102Jason Altschuler • Jiawei Zhang • Xufeng Cai • Jiajin Li Parallel Sessions 11K: Nonsmooth PDE Constrained Optimization: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications Part 2 Taper Hall (THH) 118Drew Kouri • Robert Baraldi • Rohit Khandelwal • Keegan Kirk Parallel Sessions 11L: Recent Advances in Shape and Topology Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 119Eddie Wadbro • Martin Berggren • Stephan Schmidt • Volker Schulz Parallel Sessions 11M: (Canceled)Derivative-free optimization for large scale problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Sébastien Kerleau • Haitian LI • Stephen Becker Parallel Sessions 11N: Riemannian geometry, optimization, and applications I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Wen Huang • Shixiang Chen • Shuailing Feng Parallel Sessions 11O: Advanced Computational Solver 2 Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Jake Roth • Joachim Dahl • Vishwas Rao • Jingyi Wang Parallel Sessions 11P: Online Learning and Optimization over Symmetric Cones Taper Hall (THH) 106Constantin Ickstadt • Antonios Varvitsiotis • Jiaqi Zheng • Anas Barakat Parallel Sessions 11Q: Communication-efficient distributed optimization Taper Hall (THH) 214Sulaiman Alghunaim • Constantin Philippenko • Laurent Condat Parallel Sessions 11R: Interplay between Online Convex Optimization and Statistics Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Shubhanshu Shekhar • Kwang-Sung Jun • Jun-Kun Wang Parallel Sessions 11S: Matrix optimization and geometry of curved spaces Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Florian Yger • Simon Mataigne • Florentin Goyens Parallel Sessions 11T: Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Yong Fu • Samuel Chevalier • Jesse Holzer Parallel Sessions 11U: Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems Taper Hall (THH) 108Emilio Vilches • Juan Guillermo Garrido • Samir Adly Parallel Sessions 11V: Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) I Taper Hall (THH) 110Man Yiu Tsang • Kai Pan • Siqi Zhang Parallel Sessions 11W: Nonsmooth Optimization - Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 112Dânâ Davar • Zhanwang Deng • Hao Wang Parallel Sessions 11X Taper Hall (THH) 215 Parallel Sessions 11Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Coffee & Snack Break TBA

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Parallel Semi-Plenary Talk 4A Taper Hall (THH) 101Tim Hoheisel Parallel Semi-Plenary Talk 4B Taper Hall (THH) 201Mingyi Hong

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Parallel Sessions 12A: Riemannian geometry, optimization, and applications II Taper Hall (THH) 101Wen Huang • Damien Scieur • Zhifeng Deng • Zhenwei Huang Parallel Sessions 12B: Recent Algorithmic Advances in Multiagent Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 201Sen Lin • Aritra Dutta • Prashant Khanduri • Haibo Yang Parallel Sessions 12C: Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) II Taper Hall (THH) 208Yiling Zhang • Judith Brugman Parallel Sessions 12D: Optimization on Manifolds and Geometric Approaches Taper Hall (THH) 210Ian McPherson • Ariel Goodwin • Kuangyu Ding Parallel Sessions 12E: Convex Relaxations for Discrete & Combinatorial Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 212Soobin Choi • Cheng Guo • Bernard Lidický Parallel Sessions 12F: Sparsity Optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Guanyi Wang • Jiachang Liu • Ademir Ribeiro Parallel Sessions 12G: Sparse and Low-rank Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 114Wenjing Li • LIU Yanyan • Ishy Zagdoun Parallel Sessions 12H: PDE-Constrained Optimization and Optimal Control Taper Hall (THH) 116Henrik Wyschka • Jannik Breitkopf • Marcel Steinhardt Parallel Sessions 12I: PDE-Constrained Optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Zhexian Li • Theodor Komann • Marcelo Bongarti Parallel Sessions 12J: Neural Networks and Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 102Yiping Lu • Yushun Zhang • Ching-pei Lee Parallel Sessions 12K: Machine Learning - Data Handling and Task Learning Taper Hall (THH) 118Zeman Li • Ruijia Zhang • Mahdi Salmani Parallel Sessions 12L: Optimization in Power Systems and Energy Taper Hall (THH) 119Paprapee Buason • Yu Zhang • Daniel Mimouni Parallel Sessions 12M: Decomposition Methods Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Matthew Viens • Manoel Jardim • Dinesh Krishnamoorthy Parallel Sessions 12N: Polynomial Optimization & Tensor Methods Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Yang Liu • Hoang Anh Tran • Ali Mohammad Nezhad Parallel Sessions 12O: Games and Variational Inequalities Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Jianghai Hu • Chuangyin Dang • Iyad WALWIL Parallel Sessions 12P: Convergence Analysis and Rates Taper Hall (THH) 106Zhenwei Lin • Tianyu Wang • Mario Bravo Parallel Sessions 12Q: Numerical Methods Taper Hall (THH) 214Tomoya Kamijima • Shunsuke Hayashi • Masaru Ito Parallel Sessions 12R: Learning and Optimization Interaction Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Christopher Yeh • Tianyou Zeng • Rajiv Sambharya Parallel Sessions 12S: Cloud Computing, Transport, and AI Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Maryam Yashtini • Julio C Góez • Julius Lohmann • Christopher Lohmann Parallel Sessions 12T: Envelopes in Optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Qiang Heng • Yankun Huang • Tanmaya Karmarkar Parallel Sessions 12U: Efficiency of Basic Optimization Modules: From DFO to Frank-Wolfe Taper Hall (THH) 108Zev Woodstock • Anjie Ding Parallel Sessions 12V: Distributional Shift and Systemic Risk Taper Hall (THH) 110Çağın Ararat • Lai Tian Parallel Sessions 12W Taper Hall (THH) 112 Parallel Sessions 12X Taper Hall (THH) 215 Parallel Sessions 12Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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