THE ENRICO FERMI YEAR

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GALILEO GALILEI FOUNDATION
WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTISTS
ETTORE MAJORANA CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE

GALILEO GALILEI CELEBRATIONS
Four Hundred Years Since the Birth of MODERN SCIENCE

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

«G. STAMPACCHIA»

34th Workshop:

OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL

WITH APPLICATIONS

ERICE-SICILY: 9 - 17 JULY 2001

Sponsored by the:

• Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research
• Sicilian Regional Government

PROGRAMME AND LECTURERS

Interior Point Methods and Entropic Proximal Methods in Optimization and Variational Inequalities

• A. Auslender, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon1, F

   

  Non-Symmetric Eigenvalue Optimization Problems

• J. Burke, University of Washington, DC, USA

   

  Generalized Variational Principles for Vector-Valued and Set-Valued Maps

• G.-Y. Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CN

   

  Exact Penalties in Optimal Control Problems and Calculus of Variations

• V.F. Demyanov, St. Petersburg University, RU

   

  Infeasible Interior Proximal-Like Methods for Convex Programming Problems with Applications to some Optimal Control Problems

• C. Kanzow, University of Hamburg, D

   

  Advances and Perspectives in Inexact Restoration

• J.M. Martinez, University of Campinas, BR

   

  Equilibrium Problems

• A. Maugeri, University of Catania, I

   

  Optimal Control of a Boundary Value Problem

• E. Polak, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA

   

  Optimization Problems in Stastistics

• T. Rapcsák, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, H

   

  New "Efficient" Barrier Functions for Linear and Semi-Definite Optimization

• K. Roos, Technology University of Delft, NL

   

  Data Classification Through Global Optimization

• A. Rubinov, University of Ballarat, AUS

   

  Generalized Monotonicity for Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Problems

• S. Schaible, University of California at Riverside, CA, USA

   

  Sequential Quadratic Programming versus Sequential Convex Programming Methods and some Industrial Applications

• K. Schittkowski, University of Bayreuth, D

   

  Second Order Analysis of Semi-Definite and Semi-Infinite Programming Problems

• A. Shapiro, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

   

  ABS Methods for Linear Systems and Optimization with Extension to Diophantine Problems

• E. Spedicato, University of Bergamo, I

   

  Matrix Equations and Semidefinite Programming

• J. Sun, National University of Singapore, SGP

   

  Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods for Semi-Definite Programming

• M. Todd, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

   

  Analysis of some Matrix-Valued Functions

• P. Tseng, University of Washington, DC, USA

   

  Algorithms and Applications for Continuous Complementary Problem

• Soon-Yi Wu, National Cheng Kung University, TW

   

  Resource Allocation/Forecasting of Non-Profit Making Organizations by DEA

• X.-S. Zhang, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Beijing, CN

   

PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP

The Workshop aims to bring together eminent researchers and practitioners working in optimization, optimal control and their applications in order to give and receive information and discuss results and ideas on the latest developments in these fields.

APPLICATIONS

Persons wishing to attend the Workshop should apply in writing to:

• Professor Franco Giannessi
  Department of Mathematics
  Università di Pisa
  56100 PISA, Italy
  e-mail: gianness@dm.unipi.it

specifying:

i) Full name, address, age and nationality;
ii) Academic qualifications and number of publications;
iii) List of publications;
iv) Present position and place of work.

Closing date for application: April 30, 2001

• PLEASE NOTE
  Participants must arrive in Erice on July 9, 2001, not later than 5 p.m.