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8:30am PDT

Auditorium Opens Doors for seating USC Bovard Auditorium

9:00am PDT

Plenary 2 USC Bovard AuditoriumKim-Chuan Toh

10:00am PDT

Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) TBA

10:30am PDT

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 • Lin Xiao • Jianhao Ma 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) 210Salar Fattahi • Yao Xie • Yuejie Chi • 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) 156Xian Yu • Suvrajeet Sen • Guzin Bayraksan Parallel Sessions 4G: Analysis and Design of First Order Methods for Convex Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 114Bartolomeo Stellato • Ernest Ryu • Jisun Park • Vinit Ranjan Parallel Sessions 4H: Advances in Network Optimization and Cooperative Learning Taper Hall (THH) 116Cesar A Uribe • Shahrzad Haddadan • Daniel Burbano • Alex Zalles Parallel Sessions 4I: Optimization for Large Language Models and Kernels Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Ming Yin • Banghua Zhu • Yue Wu • Kyuseong Choi Parallel Sessions 4J: Dynamic Optimization: Deterministic and Stochastic Continuous-time Models I Taper Hall (THH) 102Cristopher Hermosilla • Nicolás Hernández • Othmane Jerhaoui Parallel Sessions 4K: Convex approaches to SDP Taper Hall (THH) 118Richard Zhang • Venkat Chandrasekaran • Lieven Vandenberghe • Nathan Benedetto Proenca Parallel Sessions 4L: First-order methods for nonsmooth optimization Taper Hall (THH) 119Digvijay Boob • Hanyang Li • Guy Kornowski • Swati Padmanabhan Parallel Sessions 4M: Bilevel Optimization for Inverse Problems Part 2 Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Marco Prato • Akwum Onwunta • Juan Carlos de los Reyes Parallel Sessions 4N: Derivative-free stochastic optimization methods I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Stefan Wild • Kwassi Joseph Dzahini • Greta Malaspina 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 • Yukuan Hu • Andi Han 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) 214Heng Yang • Jie Wang • Dávid Papp • Ling Liang Parallel Sessions 4R: Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Walaa Moursi • Stephen Simons • Jon Vanderwerff • 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) 155Noemi Petra • Denis Ridzal • Andreas Mang • Ahmed Attia 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) 108Jordan Jalving & Marta D'Elia • E. Soraya Rawlings • Thibaut Cuvelier • Todd Mcdevitt 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) 112Shaoning Han • Jingfu Tan • Jiabao Yang Parallel Sessions 4X: Algorithms for Nonconvex Problems Taper Hall (THH) 215Yulin Peng • Aharonl Ben-Tal • Michel De Lara Parallel Sessions 4Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

11:45am PDT

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

1:15pm PDT

Parallel Sessions 5A: Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization V Taper Hall (THH) 101Raghu Bollapragada • Di Yu • Karl Welzel • Jiahao Shi Parallel Sessions 5B: Continuous and Discrete Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 201Marcia Fampa • Jamie Haddock • Emily Speakman • Mohit Tawarmalani Parallel Sessions 5C: AI Meets Optimization (Part 2) Taper Hall (THH) 208Wotao Yin • Jan Drgona • Jialin Liu • Junchi Yan Parallel Sessions 5D: Recent advances in algorithms for large-scale optimization (I) Taper Hall (THH) 210Xudong Li • Zirui Zhou • 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) 156Ilyas Fatkhullin • Oliver Hinder • Ashok Cutkosky • Junchi Yang Parallel Sessions 5G: Recent Advances in Large-scale Optimization III Taper Hall (THH) 114Salar Fattahi • Andres Gomez • Xuan Zhang • Ahmet Alacaoglu Parallel Sessions 5H: Preference Robust Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 116Erick Delage • Wenjie Huang • Sainan Zhang Parallel Sessions 5I: Dynamic Optimization: Deterministic and Stochastic Continuous-time Models II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Cristopher Hermosilla • Nathalie Khalil • Karla Cortez • Jorge Becerril Parallel Sessions 5J: Models and Algorithms for Optimization with Rare Events Taper Hall (THH) 102Anirudh Subramanyam • Henry Lam • Michael Chertkov • Jaeseok Choi Parallel Sessions 5K: First-order methods for nonsmooth and constrained optimization problems Taper Hall (THH) 118Digvijay Boob • Zhe Zhang • Mohammad Khalafi • Aaron Zoll Parallel Sessions 5L: Optimization for Machine Learning and AI Taper Hall (THH) 119Tianbao Yang • Gang Li • Jasper Liao • 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) 154Walaa Moursi • Sedi Bartz • TaeHo Yoon • Scott Lindstrom Parallel Sessions 5S: Semidefinite Relaxations in Inference Problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Yong Sheng Soh • Shuyang Ling • Junyu Chen • Cheng Mao Parallel Sessions 5T: Optimization for Approximation, Estimation, and Control Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Martin Andersen • Heng Yang • Zhaonan Qu • Iven Guzel 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) 110Nick Tsipinakis • Oscar Smee Parallel Sessions 5W: Systems of Quadratic Equations/Inequalities Taper Hall (THH) 112Min-Chi Wang • Ting-Tsen Lin • Ruey-Lin Sheu Parallel Sessions 5X: Modeling, Solvers, and Quantum Taper Hall (THH) 215David Gay • Giacomo Nannicini • Olivier Huber Parallel Sessions 5Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

2:30pm PDT

Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) TBA

3:00pm PDT

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

4:00pm PDT

4:15pm PDT

Parallel Sessions 6A: Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Methods Taper Hall (THH) 101Lin Xiao • Aaron Defazio • Yuxing Liu • Antonio Orvieto Parallel Sessions 6B: Machine Learning Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 201Mark Schmidt • Yaoliang Yu • Courtney Paquette • John Duchi Parallel Sessions 6C: AI Meets Optimization (Part 1) Taper Hall (THH) 208Wotao Yin • Bartolomeo Stellato • Howard Heaton • Ferdinando Fioretto Parallel Sessions 6D: Special Session in Honor of Suvrajeet Sen: Nonsmooth Methods in Stochastic Programming Taper Hall (THH) 210Uday Shanbhag • Shuotao Diao • Junyi Liu Parallel Sessions 6E: Recent advances in algorithms for large-scale optimization (II) Taper Hall (THH) 212Xudong Li • Chao Ding • Rujun Jiang Parallel Sessions 6F: Optimization for improving privacy and alignment for LLMs Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Volkan Cevher • Mingyi Hong • Xinwei Zhang Parallel Sessions 6G: Advances in Data-driven Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 114Rui Gao & Daniel 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) 102Julio C Góez • Alexander Guldemond • Allen George Philip • Olga Heijmans-Kuryatnikova Parallel Sessions 6K: Applications To Signal Processing Taper Hall (THH) 118Robert Bassett • Jefferson Huang • Roummel Marcia • Peter Barkley Parallel Sessions 6L: Alternative and Hybrid Algorithms in Quantum Computing for Optimization and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 119Bo Peng • Lu Lu • Xiu Yang Parallel Sessions 6M: Data-Driven Decision and Control Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Guannan Qu • Laixi Shi • Rayadurgam Srikant • Liviu Aolaritei 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) 258Zhe (Jimmy) Zhang • Wei Liu • Digvijay Boob • Manish Krishan 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 Adavances in Interval Arithmetic based Methods Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Victor Reyes Rodriguez • Ignacio Araya • Frédéric Messine • Frederic Messine Parallel Sessions 6S: Multi-agent learning in games and markets Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Bryce Ferguson • Devansh Jalota • Manxi Wu Parallel Sessions 6T: Randomized optimization algorithms 1/2 Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Laurent Condat • Cheik Traoré • Ilyas Fatkhullin • Lionel Tondji Parallel Sessions 6U: Applications of derivative-free optimization Taper Hall (THH) 108Juliane Müller • Filippo Marini • Charlotte Beauthier Parallel Sessions 6V: Trust-Region Methods Taper Hall (THH) 110Mohamed Laghdaf Habiboullah • Fabian Bastin • Olga Brezhneva Parallel Sessions 6W: Stochastic Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 112Honghao Zhang • Chhavi Sharma • Yulei You Parallel Sessions 6X Taper Hall (THH) 215 Parallel Sessions 6Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

5:30pm PDT

Break or End of day TBA

5:45pm PDT

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