PROGRAM

July 27-29, 2026 at S102, Lecture Hall, Gong-Guan Campus, NTNU


July 28 (Tuesday)

Time Activity
09:30-10:00Morning Refreshments
TimeSpeaker / TitleChair
10:00-10:30 Pushing the Complexity Boundaries of Fixed-Point Equations: Adaptive Algorithm at the Tractability Frontier Kim Chuan Toh
Jelena Diakonikolas
10:30-11:00 The Duality between Sampling and Optimization: New Perspectives from Diffusions and Optimal Control
Lorenz Richter
11:00-11:30 Robustness against Noise
LieJune Shiau
11:30-12:00 An Anchored Random Subspace Newton Algorithm
Pierre-Louis Poirion
12:00-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:00Poster Session
15:00-15:30Coffee and Tea Break
15:30-16:00 RiNNAL+: A Riemannian ALM Solver for SDP-RLT Relaxations of Mixed-Binary Quadratic Programs Lorenz Richter
Kim-Chuan Toh
16:00-16:30 On Circumcentered Direct Methods for Monotone Variational Inequality Problems
Luiz-Rafael Santos
16:30-17:00 A Comparison of Convex Relaxations of Optimization Problems with Hard Cardinality Constraints
Emre Alper Yildirim
17:00-17:30 Navigating Complex Materials Energy Surfaces: Integrating Optimization and Machine Learning for Large-scale Materials Simulation and Structural Screening
Hong-Kang Tian
17:30-18:00Group Photo
18:00-19:00Banquet (By Invitation)