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8:00am PDT

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

8:45am PDT

Opening Remarks USC Bovard Auditorium

9:00am PDT

Plenary 1 USC Bovard AuditoriumStephen J. Wright

10:00am PDT

Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

10:30am PDT

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

11:45am PDT

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

1:15pm PDT

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

2:30pm PDT

Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) Trousdale Quadrant 4

3:00pm PDT

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

4:00pm PDT

4:15pm PDT

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

5:30pm PDT

5:45pm PDT

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