South Pacific Continuous Optimization Meeting

8 — 12 February, 2015
Adelaide, South Australia

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SPCOM

This is the fourth edition of the successful South Pacific meetings (South Pacific Conferences in Mathematics (SPCM) in 2005 and 2010 held in New Caledonia, and South Pacific Optimization Meeting in 2013 (SPOM 2013) held in Newcastle, Australia. The (Fourth) South Pacific Continuous Optimization Meeting (SPCOM 2015) is hosted by the University of South Australia (UniSA) and will be held in the City West campus of UniSA in (the city centre of) Adelaide, Australia, between 8 and 12 February 2015. SPCOM 2015 will take place soon after another Australian mathematics meeting, ANZIAM 2015, which will be held 1st — 5th February 2015 at Outrigger, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.

SPCOM 2015 includes, but is not restricted to, the following topics from the broad area of continuous optimization:

• Variational analysis
• Optimal control theory
• Convex analysis
• Numerical optimization
• Vector optimization
• Stochastic optimization
• Functional analysis

As with the previous editions, this meeting will bring together about 60-80 researchers and students from all over the world, especially from Western Europe and the Pacific Rim, including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, UK and USA.

SPCOM 2015 will offer a rich scientific program consisting of Conference Talks, a Fitzpatrick Workshop, two half-day Tutorials, and a Poster Session.

Conference Talks

Between 9 and 12 of February 2014 there will be plenary talks (50-minute presentation + 10 minutes for questions), invited talks (25-minute presentation + 5 minutes for questions), and contributed talks (25-minute presentation + 5 minutes for questions). For abstract submission, follow this link. The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 30 January, 2015.

Invited Speakers

• Radu Boţ (University of Vienna)
• Asen Dontchev (University of Michigan)
• V. Jeyakumar (University of New South Wales)
• José Mario Martínez (University of Campinas)
• Helmut Maurer (University of Münster)
• Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State University)
• Jong Shi Pang (University of Southern California)
• Terry Rockafellar (University of Washington)
• Claudia Sagastizábal (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada)
• Stephen Simons (University of California Santa Barbara)
• Roger Wets (University of California)
• Xiao Qi Yang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Other confirmed overseas invited speakers include Samir Adly (University of Limoges), Hans Georg Bock (Heidelberg), Henri Bonnel (Univ. New Caledonia), Rob Corless (Western University), Andreas Hamel (Univ. Bozen-Bolzano), Lidia Huerga (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid), Napsu Karmitsa (Uni. Turku), Ekaterina Kostina (Marburg), Sabine Pickenhein (Cottbus), Sandra Santos (State Uni. Campinas), Christopher Schneider (Jena), Mihail Solodov (IMPA), Jie Sun (National Uni. Singapore), Christiane Tammer (Uni. Halle-Wittenberg), Firdevs Ulus (Princeton), Zhiyou Wu (Chong Qing Normal Univ.).

Other confirmed Australian invited speakers include Adil Bagirov (Federation) Jonathan Borwein (Newcastle), Regina Burachik (UniSA), Andrew Eberhard (RMIT) Jerzy Filar (Flinders), Bean San Goh (Curtin Sarawak), Phil Howlett (UniSA), Yalçin Kaya (UniSA), Alex Kruger (Federation), Guoyin Li (UNSW), Qun Lin (Curtin), Ryan Loxton (Curtin), Jonathan Manton (Melbourne), Julia Piantadosi (UniSA), Nadezda Sukhorukova (Swinburne University of Technology), Matthew Tam (Newcastle), Julien Ugon (Federation), David Yost (Federation).

Contributed Talks

There are a limited number of slots for contributed talks. If you would like to submit a contributed talk, please submit your title and abstract through the online system -- (now closed) (The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 30 January, 2015.). A decision regarding the acceptance of your talk will be sent to you by the organisers shortly after your submission. Registration to SPCOM 2015 is restricted to accepted contributed speakers.

Fitzpatrick Workshop

This half-day workshop will celebrate the 25 years of the publication of a seminal paper on maximal monotone operators by the Australian mathematician Simon Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick's paper introduced a key tool in functional analysis, with important implications in mathematical optimization. An objective of this workshop is to understand, after a quarter of a century passed, what open questions that were posed in this paper have been solved, and what questions remain open. Stephen Simons will give a keynote talk on Fitzpatrick’s contributions to Functional Analysis. Then a number of 20-minute talks will follow. The organizers of this half-day workshop are Jon Borwein and Regina Burachik.

Two half-day tutorials

Both tutorials will be delivered on Sunday 8 February, and will cover theory and applications on optimization topics. They target postgraduate students and early career researchers, but are open to any other interested researcher. The tutorials are free of charge for all registered participants.

• Numerical smooth optimization, by José Mario Martínez (University of Campinas)
• Numerical non-smooth optimization, by Claudia Sagastizábal (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada)

Poster Session

PhD students will have the opportunity to showcase their research, and find out what others are doing, in a poster session that will be held sometime between 9 and 12 February.

If you would like to submit a poster, please submit its title and abstract through the online system (poster submission is now closed) (please select "Poster" as the category). The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 30 January, 2015. A decision regarding the acceptance of your poster will be sent to you shortly after your submission.

Accommodation

Download this map to see the location of the SPCOM 2015 venue and the options for accommodation.

Follow this link for specific accommodation options.

Organizers

• Regina S. Burachik (Local chair: University of South Australia)
• C. Yalçin Kaya (Local chair: University of South Australia)
• Jonathan M. Borwein (University of Newcastle)
• Henri Bonnel (University of New Caledonia)

Contact: yalcin.kaya@unisa.edu.au or regina.burachik@unisa.edu.au.

Registration for SPCOM 2015

Click here to register.

Presentations (PDF format)

• "Semivectorial Bilevel Optimization on Riemannian Manifolds" — H. Bonnel, L. Todjihoundé, C. Udrişte
• "Maximal monotone inclusions and Fitzpatrick functions" — Jonathan M. Borwein, Joydeep Dutta
• "A new subfamily of enlargements of a maximally monotone operator" — R.S. Burachik, J.E. Martínez Legaz, M. Rezaie, M. Théra [Fitzpatrick Workshop]
• "About Uniform Regularity of Collections of Sets in Hilbert Spaces" — Alexander Kruger
• "Applications of Bang-Bang and Singular Control Problems in Biology and Biomedicine" — Helmut Maurer
• "Coderivative Characterizations of Maximal Monotonicity" — Boris Mordukhovich
• "Lower bound theorems for general polytopes" — Guillermo Pineda, Julien Ugon, David Yost
• "Single-stage/Multistage Stochastic Variational Inequalities" — Terry Rockafellar
• "Computational NSO (NonSmooth Optimization): a tutorial focusing on bundle methods" — Claudia Sagastizábal [tutorial]
• "Discretization and Dualization of Linear-Quadratic Control Problems with Bang-Bang Solutions" — Christopher Schneider
• "SN spaces, r_L-density and maximal monotonicity" — Stephen Simons
• "Best polynomial approximation: multidimensional case" — D. Yost, N. Sukhorukova, J. Ugon
• "Stochastic Optimization with Ambiguity in Distribution" — J. Sun
• "... From Hiking the Cascades and the Olympics to Stochastic VariationalInequalities" — Roger Wets
• "Non-Lipschitzian Reformulation Method for Constrained Optimization Problems" — Xiaoqi Yang
• "Lipschitz Stability in Variational Analysis" — Asen Dontchev