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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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Early Check In Taper Hall (THH)

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ICCOPT Conference Welcome Mixer (Tickets Needed) California Science Center

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Opening Remarks USC Bovard Auditorium

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Plenary 1 USC Bovard AuditoriumStephen J. Wright

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Parallel Sessions 1A: Optimization and Resilience in the Power Grid Taper Hall (THH) 101Madeleine Udell • Wenqi Cui • Harsha Nagarajan • Steven Diamond Parallel Sessions 1B: Regularization Methods for stochastic operator splitting dynamics Taper Hall (THH) 201Rodrigo Maulen • Quoc Tran-Dinh • 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) 212Johannes Brust • Michael Saunders • Zequn Zheng • Dominique Orban 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) 114Tobias Sutter • Mengmeng Li • Radek Salac • Negar Soheili Parallel Sessions 1H: Frontiers of Optimization for Machine Learning - Part I Taper Hall (THH) 116Fred Roosta • Andre Milzarek • Johannes Royset • Vivak Patel Parallel Sessions 1I: Nonconvex Optimization and Applications Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Bissan Ghaddar • Marten Soer • Imre Polik • Hao Hu Parallel Sessions 1J: Distributed Optimization and Learning Taper Hall (THH) 102Shi Pu • Yangyang Xu • César Uribe • Emre Sahinoglu Parallel Sessions 1K: Optimization for GenAI -- diffusion models and LLMs Taper Hall (THH) 118Wenpin Tang • Minshuo Chen • Hanyang Zhao • Nanshan Jia Parallel Sessions 1L: Applications of polynomial optimization to data analysis I Taper Hall (THH) 119Victor Magron • Oumayma Khattabi • Lucas Slot • Srećko Ðurašinović 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) 256Panos Patrinos • Anton Pozharskiy • Wilson Jallet • Pieter Pas Parallel Sessions 1O: Optimization For Data Science Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Niao He • Stephan Wojtowytsch • Mihaela Rosca • Zebang Shen 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) 154Andi Han • Chang He • 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) 155Makoto Yamashita & Sunyoung Kim • Hong-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 & Zhaosong Lu • Miaolan Xie • Baoyu Zhou • Zhaosong Lu Parallel Sessions 1U: Recent Advances in Fixed-Point Methods and Stability in Optimization Problems Taper Hall (THH) 108Chao Ding • Kaihuang Chen • Shiwei Wang • Guojun Zhang Parallel Sessions 1V: Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and Variants Taper Hall (THH) 110Melinda Hagedorn • Aleksandr Lobanov • Hengxu Yu Parallel Sessions 1W: Adaptive and Accelerated First-Order Methods Taper Hall (THH) 112Wenzhi Gao • Jaewook J. Suh • Tao Jiang Parallel Sessions 1X Taper Hall (THH) 215 Parallel Sessions 1Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Lunch 1 (provided) 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) 101Liwei Jiang Sen Na • Ruichen Jiang • Tianjiao Li • Qi Wang Parallel Sessions 2B: Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Optimization and Games- Part I Taper Hall (THH) 201Gesualdo Scutari • Zhuoyu Xiao • Farzad Yousefian • Angelia Nedich 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) 210Mike O'Neill • Frank E. Curtis • Raghu Bollapragada • Sadok Jerad Parallel Sessions 2E: Efficient Optimization Methods for LLMs (Part I) Taper Hall (THH) 212Ruoyu Sun • Zhangyang Wang • Jian Li Parallel Sessions 2F: Quantum Linear Algebra and Optimization (Part 1)) Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi • Sicheng He • Tamas Terlaky • Adrian Harkness Parallel Sessions 2G: Recent progresses in derivative-free optimization I Taper Hall (THH) 114Giampaolo Liuzzi • Katya Scheinberg • 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) 100Vivak Patel • Sen Na • Jean Honorio • Fred Roosta Parallel Sessions 2J: Optimization in Control - Algorithms and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 102Arvind Raghunathan • Sridharakumar Narasimhan • Prachi Shah • Saif Kazi Parallel Sessions 2K: Recent advances in matrix optimization Taper Hall (THH) 118Chao Ding • Fuxiaoyue Feng • Yangjing Zhang • 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) 256Panos Patrinos • Tobia Marcucci • Evangelos Theodorou • Roland Andrews Parallel Sessions 2O: Optimization in Global Health Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Aleksandr Aravkin • Peng Zheng • Nora Gilbertson • Ariane Ducellier 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) 155Zhengyuan Zhou • Zixuan Zhang • Xinyi Chen • Jenny Huang Parallel Sessions 2T: Recent Advances in Stochastic Optimization: Complexity, Adaptivity, and Nonsmooth Extensions (II) Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Sen Na & Zhaosong Lu • Sungho Shin • Andy Sun • Tianbao Yang Parallel Sessions 2U: Advances in Domain-Specific Languages for Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 108Steven Diamond • William Zhang • Paul Jackson • Philipp Schiele 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 • Kevin Huang • Yin Liu Parallel Sessions 2X: Proximal Methods and Splitting Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 215Mikhail Solodov • Min Tao • Minxin Zhang Parallel Sessions 2Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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Coffee & Snack Break (Provided) TBA

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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) 101Sen Na Liwei Jiang • Michał Dereziński • Mateo Díaz • Madeleine Udell Parallel Sessions 3B: Deterministic and Stochastic Methods for Optimization and Games- Part II Taper Hall (THH) 201Angelia Nedich • Bohan Wu • Marie Maros • Gesualdo Scutari Parallel Sessions 3C: Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization III Taper Hall (THH) 208Baoyu Zhou • Michael O'Neill • Daniel P. Robinson • Abhishek Chakraborty Parallel Sessions 3D: Semidefinite Programming - Theory and Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 210Hao Hu • Ting Kei Pong • Anita Varga • Gabor Pataki Parallel Sessions 3E: Efficient Optimization Methods for LLMs (Part II) Taper Hall (THH) 212Xiao Li • Francesco Orabona • Frank Schneider Parallel Sessions 3F: Advances in commercial solvers Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Robert Luce • Steven Dirkse • Shengchao Lin • Richard Waltz Parallel Sessions 3G: Special Session in Honor of Suvrajeet Sen: Sampling-based Methods in Stochastic Programming Taper Hall (THH) 114Tian Xia • Di Zhang • Harsha Gangammanavar 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) 100Jason Altschuler • Ethan Epperly • Jai Moondra • Babak Hassibi Parallel Sessions 3J: Frontiers of Optimization for Machine Learning - Part III Taper Hall (THH) 102Fred Roosta • Michael Mahoney • Matus Telgarsky • Christopher de Sa Parallel Sessions 3K: Recent advances in federated learning Taper Hall (THH) 118Minseok Ryu • Yijiang Li • Charikleia Iakovidou • Baris Askin Parallel Sessions 3L: Bilevel Optimization for Inverse Problems Part 1 Taper Hall (THH) 119Juan Carlos de los Reyes • Michael Hintermuller • Tuomo Valkonen • Christian Daniele Parallel Sessions 3M: Optimization Applications in Energy Systems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Sungho Shin • Mihai Anitescu • Anirudh Subramanyam • Dirk Lauinger Parallel Sessions 3N: Adjustable Robust Optimization: Theories and Algorithms Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Ahmadreza Marandi • Ayse Nur Arslan • Henri Lefebvre • Amir Ardestani-Jaafari Parallel Sessions 3O: Advances in Discrete Optimization: From Relaxation to Convex Hull Exactness Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Akang Wang • Yeqing Qiu • Guanyi Wang • Rui Chen Parallel Sessions 3P: Fast Algorithms for Data Science Taper Hall (THH) 106Mustafa Celebi Pinar • Kansei Ushiyama • Shota Takahashi Parallel Sessions 3Q: Fast Algorithmic Frameworks for Semidefinite Programming and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 214Ling Liang • Yuehaw Khoo • Shucheng Kang • Tianyun Tang Parallel Sessions 3R: Manifold optimization with special metrics Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Xiaohui Chen • Tasuku Soma • André Uschmajew Parallel Sessions 3S: Manifold optimization with special metrics Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Max Pfeffer • Tatjana Stykel • Hang Wang • Ralf Zimmermann Parallel Sessions 3T: Variational Analysis: Theory and Applications I Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Walaa Moursi • Heinz Bauschke • Radu Bot • Xianfu Wang Parallel Sessions 3U: Recent Advances on PDE-constrained optimization packages and libraries: Part II Taper Hall (THH) 108Umberto Villa • Noemi Petra • Lindsey Heagy • TBA TBA Parallel Sessions 3V: Derivative-free optimization for special classes of problems I Taper Hall (THH) 110Clément Royer • Gabriel Jarry-Bolduc • Sébastien Kerleau Parallel Sessions 3W: Quantum Linear Algebra and Optimization (Part 2) Taper Hall (THH) 112Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi • Maria Isabel Franco Garrido • Sophia Simon Parallel Sessions 3X: Mechanism and Pricing Designs in Stochastic Decision Making Taper Hall (THH) 215Helene Le Cadre • Yutian He • Yu-Ching Lee Parallel Sessions 3Y: Machine Learning - Privacy and Learning Theory Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200Devansh Gupta • Dmitrii Ostrovskii • Philip Thompson

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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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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

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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

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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) 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

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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

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Plenary 3 USC Bovard AuditoriumClaudia Sagastizábal

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Parallel Sessions 7A: Optimization Methods for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Networks (I) Taper Hall (THH) 101Ya-Feng Liu • Urbashi Mitra • Chandra Murthy • Kaiming Shen Parallel Sessions 7B: Relaxations for non-convex optimization Taper Hall (THH) 201Andres Gomez • Soroosh Shafiee • Jisun Lee • Chen Chen Parallel Sessions 7C: Duality in Optimization for Data Science Taper Hall (THH) 208Ahmet Alacaoglu • Jiawei Zhang • Michael Friedlander • Rahul Parhi Parallel Sessions 7D: Service or Scientific Contribution? Promoting and Recognizing Best Review Practices Taper Hall (THH) 210Katya Scheinberg • Frank E. Curtis 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) 156Haihao Lu • Alexis Montoison • Zedong Peng • Qiushi Han Parallel Sessions 7G: Statistical and Computational Aspects of Multi-Agent Games Taper Hall (THH) 114Zhuoran Yang • Kaiqing Zhang • Ashkan Soleymani • Weiqiang Zheng Parallel Sessions 7H: Recent advances in optimization and statistical estimation on manifolds Taper Hall (THH) 116Krishna Balasubramanian • Yunrui Guan • Abhishek Roy • Molei Tao 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) 102Qimeng / Kim Yu • Liding Xu • Aaresh Bhathena • Yongchun Li 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) 157Denis Ridzal • Harbir Antil • Olena Melnikov • Konstantin Pieper Parallel Sessions 7N: Derivative-free stochastic optimization methods II Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Matt Menickelly • Sara Shashaani • 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) 106Wenqi Zhu • Fadi Hamad • Chuwen Zhang • Chengchang Liu 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 • Mel Devine • Dominic Flocco Parallel Sessions 7U: Randomized optimization algorithms 2/2 Taper Hall (THH) 108Laurent Condat • Alp Yurtsever • Ilaria Trombini • Titus Pinta 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) 112Jiseok Chae • Kyuwon Kim • Jaeyeon Kim Parallel Sessions 7X: Constraint Qualification and Error Bound Taper Hall (THH) 215Meisam Razaviyayn • Mariana da Rosa Parallel Sessions 7Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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

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Parallel Sessions 8A: California to Amalfi Coast via Québec Taper Hall (THH) 101Leo Liberti • Anna Deza • Martina Cerulli • Kim Yu Parallel Sessions 8B: Manifolds, samples, and learning Taper Hall (THH) 201Ralf Zimmermann • Laura Balzano • Shenuan Liang • Zehua Lai 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) 212Wei Yu • Christos Masouros • Tsung-hui Chang • Ya-Feng Liu 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) 116Laurent Condat • Sebastian Stich • Paul Mangold • Ming Yan 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) 118Levon Nurbekyan • Dingcheng Luo • Denis Korolev • Michael Hintermüller Parallel Sessions 8L: Derivative-free optimization for special classes of problems II Taper Hall (THH) 119Ana Luísa Custódio • Saeed Ghadimi • Raghu Pasupathy Parallel Sessions 8M: Techniques for Solving High-Dimensional and Nonlinear Optimization Problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Wenqi Zhu • Zhuorui Li • Bowen Li • Jiyoung Choi Parallel Sessions 8N: Recent advances in first-order methods Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Lexiao Lai • Naoki Marumo • Thabo Samakhoana • Tam Le Parallel Sessions 8O: Optimization problems arising in quantum computing and physics Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Ojas Parekh • Sankara Sai Chaithanya Rayudu • Felix Huber • Jamie Sikora 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) 155Linchuan Wei • Yongzheng Dai • Tong Xu • Yixuan Hua Parallel Sessions 8T: Advanced Techniques in Global Optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Sven Leyffer • Leandro Maia • Sonia Cafieri 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) 110David Bernal Neira • Yuxiang Peng • Wesley Dyk • Pooya Ronagh Parallel Sessions 8W: Bilevel Optimization - Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 112Dohyun Kwon • Yuchen Lou • 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) TBA

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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) 101Andy Sun • Baptiste Rabecq • 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) 208Ahmet Alacaoglu • Roberto Cominetti • Haipeng Luo • Matthew Tam Parallel Sessions 9D: Manifolds, samples, and learning II Taper Hall (THH) 210Ralf Zimmermann • Lukas Klingbiel • Simon Jacobsson • Du Nguyen Parallel Sessions 9E: Recent Progress on Bilevel Optimization for Machine Learning Taper Hall (THH) 212Tong Zhang • Kaiyi Ji • Xuxing Chen • Jeongyeol Kwon 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) 114Tangi Migot • Robert Luce • Andreas Waechter Parallel Sessions 9H: On Hierarchical Optimization, Games, and Federated Learning Taper Hall (THH) 116Farzad Yousefian • Krishnan Raghavan • Yuyang Qiu • Sepideh Samadi 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) 157Laurent Condat • Kun Yuan • Anastasia Koloskova • Zaid Harchaoui Parallel Sessions 9N: Control and Optimization of AVs for Transportation Solutions Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Jeff Ban & Ruolin Li • Shakiba Naderian • Zhili Zhang • Ruolin Li 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 • Hyuk Park • Caleb Ju Parallel Sessions 9Q: Infinite-dimensional and dynamic aspects in optimization under uncertainty Taper Hall (THH) 214Caroline Geiersbach • Johannes Milz • 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) 155Jiajin Li • Wenhao Yang • Chao Qin • Yueyang Liu Parallel Sessions 9T: Relaxations of Optimization Problems and Extreme Point Results in Infinite Dimensions Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Rahul Parhi • Daniel Walter • Marcello Carioni • Thibaut Horel Parallel Sessions 9U: Quantum Computing for combinatorial optimization Taper Hall (THH) 108David Bernal Neira • Shouvanik Chakrabarti • Farhad Khosravi • 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 • Tommaso Giovannelli • Lesia Mitridati 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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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) TBA

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Parallel Sessions 10A: AI Meets Optimization (Part 3) Taper Hall (THH) 101Wotao Yin • Ming Jin • Pascal Van Hentenryck • Samy Wu Fung Parallel Sessions 10B: Special Session in Honor of Suvrajeet Sen: Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programming Taper Hall (THH) 201Lewis Ntaimo • Simge Kucukyavuz • Cole Smith 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) 212Krishnakumar Balasubramanian • Murat Erdogdu • Qijia Jiang • Mladen Kolar Parallel Sessions 10F: Optimisation and machine learning in energy Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 156Hongyu Zhang • Michael Lau • Yihang Zhang • Aron Brenner Parallel Sessions 10G: Novel First-Order Methods via Performance Estimation II Taper Hall (THH) 114Alex Wang • Uijeong Jang • Manu Upadhyaya • Jinho Bok Parallel Sessions 10H: Advances in Bilevel Optimization: Algorithms and Applications Taper Hall (THH) 116Mingyi Hong & Prashant Khanduri • Xiaotian Jiang • Prashant Khanduri • Jincheng Cao Parallel Sessions 10I: Advances in Variational Inequalities and Saddle Point Problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 100Afrooz Jalilzadeh • Wei Gu • Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani Parallel Sessions 10J: Randomized algorithms beyond minimization Taper Hall (THH) 102Laurent Condat • Emanuele Naldi • Gauthier Gidel • Aritra Mitra Parallel Sessions 10K: Nonconvex methods and SDPs Taper Hall (THH) 118Florentin Goyens • Amir Ali Ahmadi • Richard Zhang • Arnesh Sujanani 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) 157Ahmet Alacaoglu • Donghwan Kim • Ali Kavis • Jelena Diakonikolas Parallel Sessions 10N: Nonsmooth PDE Constrained Optimization: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications Part 3 Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Harbir Antil • Robert Baraldi • Dohyun Kim • Paul Manns 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: Recent Algorithmic Advances in Multiagent Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 106Prashant Khanduri & Haibo Yang • Sen Lin • Aritra Dutta • Haibo Yang Parallel Sessions 10Q: Advanced Computational Solvers 1 Taper Hall (THH) 214Nai-Yuan Chiang • Carl Laird • Nils-Christian Kempke • Kuoling Huang Parallel Sessions 10R: Quantum Methods for Optimization and Sampling Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Alexander Dalzell • Zherui Chen • Jiaqi Leng Parallel Sessions 10S: Advances in Modeling and Optimization for MDP and Optimal Control Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Jincheng Yang • Yashaswini Murthy • Minda Zhao Parallel Sessions 10T: Optimization on Manifolds Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Christopher Criscitiello • Victor-Emmanuel Brunel • Thomas Cohn • Brighton Ancelin Parallel Sessions 10U: Approximating derivatives in derivative-free optimization Taper Hall (THH) 108Geovani Grapiglia • Daniel McKenzie • Liyuan Cao Parallel Sessions 10V: Modeling Oriented Software and Methods (2) Taper Hall (THH) 110Jean-Paul Watson • Georgia Stinchfield • Bashar Ammari • TBD TBD Parallel Sessions 10W: Parallel and Distributed Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 112Artavazd Maranjyan • Guanglu Zhang • Michel Lahmann 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) USC Founder's / Hutton Park

1:15pm PDT

Parallel Sessions 11A: First order methods in machine learning Taper Hall (THH) 101Yaoliang Yu • Yufeng Yang • Mark Schmidt • Baoxiang Wang Parallel Sessions 11B: Learning, Robustness, and Fairness Taper Hall (THH) 201Daniel Kuhn • Phebe Vayanos • Cagil Kocyigit Parallel Sessions 11C: Recent Advances in Stochastic First-Order Methods Taper Hall (THH) 208Tianjiao Li • Guanghui Lan • 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) 156Christoph Spiegel • Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho • Pablo A. Parrilo • Jan Volec 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) 116Yanmeng Wang • Thinh Doan • Hoi-To Wai 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) 102Jiawei Zhang • Jason Altschuler • Xufeng Cai • Jiajin Li Parallel Sessions 11K: Nonsmooth PDE Constrained Optimization: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications Part 2 Taper Hall (THH) 118Robert Baraldi • Drew Kouri • Rohit Khandelwal • Keegan Kirk Parallel Sessions 11L: Recent Advances in Shape and Topology Optimization Taper Hall (THH) 119Volker Schulz • Eddie Wadbro • Martin Berggren • Stephan Schmidt Parallel Sessions 11M: Derivative-free optimization for large scale problems Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 157Zaikun Zhang • Stephen Becker • Haitian LI Parallel Sessions 11N: Riemannian geometry, optimization, and applications Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 256Wen Huang • Shixiang Chen • Shuailing Feng Parallel Sessions 11O: Riemannian geometry, optimization, and applications Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 258Wen Huang • Damien Scieur • Zhifeng Deng • Zhenwei Huang Parallel Sessions 11P: Advanced Computational Solver 2 Taper Hall (THH) 106Jingyi Wang • Jake Roth • Joachim Dahl • Vishwas Rao Parallel Sessions 11Q: Online Learning and Optimization over Symmetric Cones Taper Hall (THH) 214Antonios Varvitsiotis • Constantin Ickstadt • Jiaqi Zheng • Anas Bakarat Parallel Sessions 11R: Communication-efficient distributed optimization Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 154Sulaiman Alghunaim • Constantin Philippenko • Laurent Condat Parallel Sessions 11S: Interplay between Online Convex Optimization and Statistics Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 155Shubhanshu Shekhar • Kwang-Sung Jun • Jun-Kun Wang Parallel Sessions 11T: Matrix optimization and geometry of curved spaces Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 158Florian Yger • Simon Mataigne • Florentin Goyens Parallel Sessions 11U: Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Taper Hall (THH) 108Yong Fu • Samuel Chevalier • Jesse Holzer Parallel Sessions 11V: Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems Taper Hall (THH) 110Samir Adly • Juan Guillermo Garrido • Emilio Vilches Parallel Sessions 11W: Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) I Taper Hall (THH) 112Man Yiu Tsang • Siqi Zhang • Kai Pan Parallel Sessions 11X: Nonsmooth Optimization - Algorithms Taper Hall (THH) 215Dânâ Davar • Zhanwang Deng • Hao Wang Parallel Sessions 11Y Joseph Medicine Crow Center for International and Public Affairs (DMC) 200

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