Special Session on Geometric and Combinatorial Aspects of Convex Optimization

I am organizing a session on "Geometric and Combinatorial Aspects of Convex Optimization" at the 2010 Summer meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society. The meeting will be held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, from June 4th to June 6th 2010. You can find information on the conference as a whole on the CMS Website

Topics

We are planning on having 1-2 days of talks on topics including (but not restricted to):

• Interactions between graph theory, geometry and optimization.
• Geometry and combinatorics of linear and semidefinite programming
• Convex Polyhedra, Convex Bodies, Hyperplane Arrangements
• Geometric Optimization Problems
• Matroids and Oriented Matroids
• Symmetry in optimization
• Data depth, and related problems.

Confirmed Speakers

• Karoly Bezdek, Calgary
• David Bremner, New Brunswick
• Michael Burr, NYU
• Dan Chen, Carleton
• Antoine Deza, McMaster
• William Hua, McMaster
• Edward Kim, UC Davis
• Gabor Pataki, UNC
• Diane Souvaine, Tufts
• Csaba Toth, Calgary
• Christophe Weibel, McGill
• Henry Wolkowicz, Waterloo

More information?

Contact the organizer, bremner at unb.ca