BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O lecture: Aleksandar Nikolov (Toronto) DTSTART:20160511T070000Z DTEND:20160511T080000Z UID:e5650f6e-0483-4ba9-86a2-18c86993364d DESCRIPTION:If you are interested you are most welcome to attend this N&O  lecture.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 - CWI LOCATION:Room L016 - CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture: Gustavo Angulo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de C hile) DTSTART:20160608T070000Z DTEND:20160608T080000Z UID:c23fc57d-115e-4f6a-86ea-b9dc9ef90209 DESCRIPTION:Everyone who is interested is welcome to attend the lecture of Gustavo Angulo\,                     entitled 'On a c lass of Stochastic Programs with Exponentially many Scenarios'.\n\nLocatio n:\nRoom L016 CWI Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 CWI Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture: Dion Gijswijt (Delft) DTSTART:20160609T090000Z DTEND:20160609T100000Z UID:5933272e-f91a-4db1-bed0-42240435969b DESCRIPTION:Everyons who is interested is welcome to attend the lecture of Dion Gijswijt\, with the title 'Asymptotic upper bounds on progression-fr ee sets in Z_p^n'.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 CWI Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 CWI Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture: Bodo Manthey (University of Twente) DTSTART:20160614T100000Z DTEND:20160614T110000Z UID:3d221918-44b7-465a-a856-c904c588f110 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the CWI Lecture from Bodo Manthe y with the title: Smoothed Analysis of the 2-Opt Heuristic for the TSPAbst ract:  The 2-opt heuristic is a very simple local search heuristic for th e traveling salesman problem.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016\, ground floor CWI LOCATION:Room L016\, ground floor CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture: Joe Halpern\, Cornell University DTSTART:20160617T110000Z DTEND:20160617T120000Z UID:0e75cb1f-c1c0-4785-b80d-615141dde5b6 DESCRIPTION:Everyone who is interested is welcome to attend the CWI Lectu re of Joe Halpern\, Cornell University.   The title of his lecture is:  Decision theory with resource-bounded agents. Abstract:There have been tw o major lines of research aimed at capturingresource-bounded players in ga me theory.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016\, ground floor CWI LOCATION:Room L016\, ground floor CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O lecture: Frank Permenter (MIT) DTSTART:20160628T070000Z DTEND:20160628T080000Z UID:a149fce5-ca8a-40f1-b19d-5ee3f2a80bc2 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is very welcome to attend the CWI lecture of Frank Pe rmenter (MIT) with the title: Dimension Reduction For SDPs Via Jordan Alge bras.Abstract:We propose a new method for simplifying semidefinite program s inspired by symmetry reduction.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016\, ground floor C WI LOCATION:Room L016\, ground floor CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Teresa Piovesan (N&O/A&C) DTSTART:20161027T060000Z DTEND:20161027T090000Z UID:99b7979e-e22b-46f2-b19c-ee3b6bafbd0b DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Teresa Pio vesan\, of her thesis "Quantum entanglement: insights via graph parameters and conic optimization" Promotors:  Prof.dr. Harry Buhrman and Prof.dr. Monique Laurent\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture Matthias Mnich: New Algorithms for Maximum Disjoint Pa ths Based on Tree-Likeness DTSTART:20161130T090000Z DTEND:20161130T100000Z UID:88dbda06-5005-4357-a27c-c7b0948118bd DESCRIPTION:We would like to announce the following lecture from Matthia s Mnich (Bonn) at the N&O seminar: Abstract:We study the classical NP-hard problems of finding maximum-size subsets from given sets of k terminal pa irs that can be routed via edge-disjoint paths (MaxEDP) or node-disjoint p aths (MaxNDP) in a given graph.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L120\, first floor CWI\ , Science Park 123 Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L120\, first floor CWI\, Science Park 123 Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Matteo Seminaroti (N&O) DTSTART:20161202T080000Z DTEND:20161202T103000Z UID:f8f4fa69-b800-4c5d-b41c-f8c56b2a1c38 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the defence of Matteo Seminaroti of his thesis "Combinatorial Algorithms for the Seriation Problem" Promot or: Prof.dr. Monique Laurent. Copromotor: Prof.dir.ir. Renata Sotirov\n\nL ocation:\nDe Aula van Universiteit Tilburg LOCATION:De Aula van Universiteit Tilburg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture Ross Kang (Radboud University): Colouring powers of gr aphs with one cycle length forbidden DTSTART:20170201T090000Z DTEND:20170201T100000Z UID:86679f08-6653-44f9-a7bf-79ceeb2daaa3 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O lecture of Ross Kang at CWI. Abstract: Graph powers arise naturally in the study of\, for example\ , efficientnetwork communication. Some basic problems have long been studi ed andremain stubbornly open.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016\, ground floor CWI LOCATION:Room L016\, ground floor CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture Jesper Nederlof (TU/e): Faster Space Efficient Algorit hms for Subset Sum and Knapsack DTSTART:20170208T090000Z DTEND:20170208T100000Z UID:d7dd7333-1475-45fa-a950-f90845ac8524 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public lecture of Jesper Ned erlof. Abstract: Faster Space Efficient Algorithms for Subset Sum and Knap sackWe present a randomized Monte Carlo algorithm that solves a given inst ance of Subset Sum on n integers using O*(2^{0.86n}) time and O*(1) space\ , where O*() suppresses factors polynomial in the input size.\n\nLocation: \nRoom L016 - CWI LOCATION:Room L016 - CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture Pieter Kleer (CWI): Potential Function Minimizers of C ombinatorial Congestion Games: Efficiency and Computation DTSTART:20170215T090000Z DTEND:20170215T100000Z UID:bef9132e-d682-4a4a-9057-25da109d7d30 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public CWI lecture of Pieter Kleer. Abstract: Congestion games are an important class of games\, intro duced by Rosenthal in 1973\, which have been studied extensively.\n\nLocat ion:\nCWI room L016 LOCATION:CWI room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Lecture Stefan Weltge (ETH): Polytopes in the 0/1-Cube with Bo unded Chvátal-Gomory Rank DTSTART:20170222T090000Z DTEND:20170222T100000Z UID:e243788b-dfd0-476b-b1ca-e43ebe83f53b DESCRIPTION:Everyone who is interested is welcome to attend this CWI pub lic lecture of Stefan. Abstract: Let P be any polytope contained in [0\,1] ^n and S be the set ofits integer points.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L017\, CWI\, Science Park 123\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L017\, CWI\, Science Park 123\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:NETWORKS 2017: Scientific Conference DTSTART:20170607T073000Z DTEND:20170609T150000Z UID:d8f8c0ff-6e6a-4b8f-baa3-b9941736174c DESCRIPTION:On 7-9 June 2017 NETWORKS organizes the first large conferenc e in the framework of the NETWORKS programme. On 7 and 9 June a scientific conference with 4 parallel tracks\, each focussing on a specific aspect o f networks. On 8 June a public event is organized. You'll find more inform ation about the program and registration on the website.\n\nContact:\nMari eke Kranenburg\ninfo@thenetworkcenter.nl\n\nLocation:\nCongress Centre Ams terdam Science Park LOCATION:Congress Centre Amsterdam Science Park END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CWI-Inria Workshop DTSTART:20170919T103000Z DTEND:20170920T110000Z UID:6663b0e9-9cc9-4617-9391-30c64dce2221 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend this first workshop of the CWI- Inria International Lab. You will find more information on the website. Fo r registration please use the event url.\n\nContact:\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLo cation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L120 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open Access: turning promises into reality DTSTART:20180125T130000Z DTEND:20180125T160000Z UID:c2588d41-fda5-4dfe-a2fa-792702981182 DESCRIPTION:CWI organizes a meeting concerning Open Access aimed for a bro ad audience. Please register (free of costs) by sending an email to: Susan ne.van.Dam@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nTuring room\, Science Park Congress Centre \, Amsterdam LOCATION:Turing room\, Science Park Congress Centre\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:6th SDP Day - Workshop Day on Applications of Semidefinite Optimiz ation DTSTART:20180405T080000Z DTEND:20180405T150000Z UID:f024cab9-03f8-406a-ab56-3395036d999a DESCRIPTION:6th SDP Day Workshop Day on Applications of Semidefinite Optim ization\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, S cience Park 123\, Amsterdam: room L16 LOCATION:CWI\, Science Park 123\, Amsterdam: room L16 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Highlights of Algorithms 2018 (HALG 2018) DTSTART:20180604T130000Z DTEND:20180606T140000Z UID:12193177-45fd-47dd-a17d-110b324b5672 DESCRIPTION:\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nMa in Building of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, 1105 De Boelelaan\, Amst erdam LOCATION:Main Building of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, 1105 De Boele laan\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Discrepancy Theory and Integer Programming DTSTART:20180611T073000Z DTEND:20180615T110000Z UID:3cd916d7-0553-483c-ab3d-a605e7f55585 DESCRIPTION:The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts in disc repancy theory and integer programming. More information about the program and registration can be found on the website.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Da m\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Yllka Velaj (CWI) DTSTART:20180911T090000Z DTEND:20180911T100000Z UID:ecc000df-fe12-4fcc-8aac-5a4b5af33dcc DESCRIPTION:Yllka Velaj (CWI) will give a lecture with the title 'Informat ion spreading with network augmentation'.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsu sanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CWI-Inria Workshop 2018 DTSTART:20180925T113000Z DTEND:20180926T100000Z UID:a24fdda1-d445-47b1-93a1-887c9e774ac9 DESCRIPTION:The second workshop of the CWI-Inria International Lab will ta ke place at Inria Paris on September 25\,26 2018. Participation is free bu t registration is required. Please see the workshop website for details on registration and the scientific program\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsus anne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nInria Paris research centre in Paris LOCATION:Inria Paris research centre in Paris END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Fernando Oliveira (TU Delft) DTSTART:20181003T090000Z DTEND:20181003T100000Z UID:21f8d2a9-144e-4aee-9389-ce62f3ca41a9 DESCRIPTION:Title: On the integrality gap of the maximum-cut SDP relaxatio n in fixed dimension\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocat ion:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Edouard Pauwels 'Moment based data analysis' DTSTART:20181017T090000Z DTEND:20181017T100000Z UID:af67e255-377d-4ccf-aad5-882519496b74 DESCRIPTION:We would like to announce the following lecture at the N&O sem inar by Edouard Pauwels (IRIT\, Universite Toulouse 3)\n\nContact:\nDanie l Dadush\ndadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: David Wajc (CMU) DTSTART:20181019T120000Z DTEND:20181019T130000Z UID:6009a726-ce02-48c0-8914-30dd21c5bf62 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public lecture of David\, ti tle 'The Greedy Algorithm is *Not* Optimal for On-line Edge Coloring'\n\nC ontact:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 i n Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar: David Harris (University of Maryland) DTSTART:20181204T100000Z DTEND:20181204T110000Z UID:652a30dc-202b-4dbf-98a8-b0319af71d46 DESCRIPTION:Oblivious resampling oracles and parallel algorithms for the L opsided Lovasz Local Lemma\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\nD.N.Dadush@cwi.nl\n \nLocation:\nL016 LOCATION:L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Hans Bodlaender (UU) DTSTART:20181205T100000Z DTEND:20181205T110000Z UID:62bb95eb-f8ad-4454-810b-53bb0df5eef4 DESCRIPTION:An ETH-Tight Algorithm for Euclidean TSP\n\nContact:\nDaniel D adush\nD.N.Dadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 LOCATION:L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie University) DTSTART:20190109T100000Z DTEND:20190109T110000Z UID:62f3e2c3-7516-4012-885b-ba035ba7723f DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture of Jeanette Janssen\ , entitled 'Recognizing graphs formed by a spatial random process'.\n\nLoc ation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Jan-Hendrik Lange (Max-Planck-Institut für Informati k) DTSTART:20190123T130000Z DTEND:20190123T140000Z UID:fe9abd0c-74f4-4778-83db-9af3c9ddeece DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O lecture of Jan-Hendrik L ange\, with the title 'Combinatorial persistency criteria for multicut'.\n \nLocation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open Access: turning promises into reality DTSTART:20190125T133000Z DTEND:20190125T143000Z UID:354f4920-e6ef-40b1-8c65-02133b5916db DESCRIPTION:CWI organizes a meeting concerning Open Access aimed for a bro ad audience. Speakers Prof. Jos Baeten\, Prof. Jean-Sébastien Caux and Vi tek Tracz. Please register (free of charge) by sending an email to: susann e.van.dam@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nTuring room\, Science Park Congress Centre\ , Amsterdam LOCATION:Turing room\, Science Park Congress Centre\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Pieter Kleer (CWI) DTSTART:20190206T100000Z DTEND:20190206T110000Z UID:f591044b-6a52-4509-a3a2-3b73f729cdcb DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Pieter Kleer on the topic 'The switch Markov chain for the uniform sampling of g raphs with given degrees'.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L120 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Marten Maack (Kiel University) DTSTART:20190220T100000Z DTEND:20190220T110000Z UID:a88867f9-6aa0-43e9-b796-f0e090b98eb6 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O lecture of Marten Maack with the title 'New PTAS Results for Machine Scheduling'\n\nContact:\nDani el Dadush\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar: Daniel Vaz (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik) DTSTART:20190227T130000Z DTEND:20190227T140000Z UID:8a86daa6-f184-4a93-8454-007236e2268b DESCRIPTION:A New Reduction-To-Tree Technique for Graph Connectivity Probl ems\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\nD.N.Dadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 LOCATION:L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Christopher Hojny (TU Darmstadt) DTSTART:20190327T100000Z DTEND:20190327T110000Z UID:fc3cd0c3-30a9-4d6d-9732-5098e25108ab DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public lecture of Christophe r Hojny (TU Darmstadt) withe the title 'Strong IP Formulations Need Large Coefficients'.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amster dam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Adrien Taylor (ENS Paris) DTSTART:20190403T090000Z DTEND:20190403T100000Z UID:99e0bd6a-b9eb-4a38-af0b-9636a00db504 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O lecture of Adrien Taylor with the title 'Computer-aided worst-case analyses and design of first-or der methods'.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterd am LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Arne Heimendahl (U. Cologne) DTSTART:20190411T113000Z DTEND:20190411T123000Z UID:c6a4ee1f-b45e-49c9-b613-d44058bda9a9 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O lecture of Arne Heimenda hl\, with the title 'Faces of the stabilizer polytope and robustness measu res'.\n\nContact:\nMonique Laurent\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L120 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Early bird registration NMC 2019: deadline 31 December 2019 DTSTART:20190423T070000Z DTEND:20190424T160000Z UID:05941573-3f5b-45e2-b3eb-490c3d7a270e DESCRIPTION:Dutch Mathematical Congress (NMC 2019)\n\nLocation:\nCongress Centre Koningshof\, Veldhoven LOCATION:Congress Centre Koningshof\, Veldhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Michail Fasoulakis (ICS-FORTH\, Heraklion\, Greece) DTSTART:20190521T113000Z DTEND:20190521T123000Z UID:d39ab5fa-d11e-4580-994b-9bd4a4d936eb DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend this N&O lecture of Michail Faso ulakis with the title 'Approximate Nash Equilibria in bimatrix games'.\n\n Contact:\nGuido Schaefer\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Lucas Slot (CWI) DTSTART:20190529T090000Z DTEND:20190529T100000Z UID:cb114f16-9b90-4e0e-972d-96c91922a283 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O lecture of Lucas Slot wi th the title 'Improved convergence analysis of Lasserre's measure-based up per bounds for polynomial minimization on compact sets'.\n\nContact:\nDani el Dadush\nD.N.Dadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 CWI LOCATION:Room L016 CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Cristobal Guzman (PUC-Chile) DTSTART:20190710T090000Z DTEND:20190710T100000Z UID:7ddc4a18-80d9-4392-b1cd-d84b3d02a709 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the N&O seminar by Cristobal Guz man with the title 'Lower Bounds for Parallel and Randomized Convex Optimi zation'.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Aleksandar Nikolov (University of Toronto) DTSTART:20190724T090000Z DTEND:20190724T100000Z UID:5596f18e-fdfc-45c4-b6bb-3f019ccfa907 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O seminar of Aleksandar Ni kolov with the title: Proportional Volume Sampling and Approximation Algor ithms for Optimal Design.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nRoom L0 16 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: William Umboh (University of Sydney) DTSTART:20190726T120000Z DTEND:20190726T130000Z UID:a5886dd4-368f-46ed-a5f5-27f82088a842 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O seminar of William Umboh with the title 'Tight Bounds for Online Weighted Tree Augmentation'.\n\nC ontact:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 i n Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Sahil Singla (Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study) DTSTART:20190827T110000Z DTEND:20190827T120000Z UID:f8cdf0b3-c4d3-4683-b580-e02866a01325 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O lecturen of Sahil Singla with the title 'Improved Truthful Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions w ith Submodular Bidders'.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nRoom L01 7 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L017 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Pieter Kleer (N&O) DTSTART:20190909T134500Z DTEND:20190909T151500Z UID:0d4c71ae-bdcc-4acc-a05a-e67d1ee85910 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Pieter Kle er\, of his thesis 'When Nash met Markov: Novel results for pure Nash equi libria and the switch Markov chain'.\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium VU\, Boelela an 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Auditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Jesper Nederlof\, TU/e DTSTART:20190917T090000Z DTEND:20190917T100000Z UID:34c31c7a-f4e4-43ab-ac7c-4ab7c170f6fb DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O seminar of Jesper Nederl of\, with the title 'On the worst-case complexity of the Traveling Salesma n Problem'.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nRoom L017 at CWI\, Sc ience Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L017 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CWI-Inria Workshop DTSTART:20190917T110000Z DTEND:20190918T140000Z UID:748bd22e-e3b9-497b-bb25-33b671b89971 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the third annual workshop of the CWI-Inria International Lab. Please visit the website for more informatio n about the program and for registration.\n\nContact:\nMonique Laurent\n\n Location:\nRoom L120 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L120 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Kim-Manuel Klein (Kiel University) DTSTART:20190924T090000Z DTEND:20190924T100000Z UID:9c984d3f-2ebe-409f-a2a0-ac1bfbf5a1fe DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O seminar by Kim-Manuel Kl ein with the title 'About the Complexity of 2-Stage Stochastic IPs'.\n\nCo ntact:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Sander Gribling (N&O) DTSTART:20190930T113000Z DTEND:20190930T130000Z UID:5232684f-2269-417b-b40d-dda3b5ccf1c4 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Sander Gri bling of his thesis 'Applications of optimization to factorization ranks a nd quantum information theory'.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nSusanne.van. Dam@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nPortrettenzaal\, Tilburg University\, Warandelaan 2\, Tilburg LOCATION:Portrettenzaal\, Tilburg University\, Warandelaan 2\, Tilburg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Sebastian Pokutta (Zuse Institute & TU Berlin) DTSTART:20191009T090000Z DTEND:20191009T100000Z UID:78993314-02f9-4ed3-8762-96525d35284f DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O seminar by Sebastian Pok utta with the title 'Locally Accelerated Conditional Gradients'.\n\nContac t:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Ams terdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: David Kempe (USC) DTSTART:20191010T113000Z DTEND:20191010T123000Z UID:d5560c7f-6e8d-442b-b321-5a318aeb2c0c DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O seminar of David Kempe w ith the title 'Security Games: Quasi-Regular Sequences\, and a new version of TSP'.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:EWM-NL Annual meeting 2019: Understanding and fixing the leaky pip eline DTSTART:20191127T120000Z DTEND:20191127T180000Z UID:b623e0b1-4f18-494a-ad68-3093b9084d50 DESCRIPTION:This annual event aims to bring together all members of EWM-NL and of the general mathematics community in the country. This year\, the focus is on 'Understanding and Fixing the Leaky Pipeline'\, a metaphor for the lack of women at senior levels of academia. Registration is open to a ll interested participants.\n\nContact:\nRianne de Heide en Sophie Huibert s\n\nLocation:\nRoom L017 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L017 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Yair Shenfeld (Princeton University) DTSTART:20191203T130000Z DTEND:20191203T140000Z UID:25daa743-75d3-4a9c-a52c-f9f69248810f DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O Lecture of Yair Shenfeld entitled 'Quantum graphs\, convex bodies\, and a century-old problem of M inkowski'.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Sci ence Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Raghu Meka (UCLA) DTSTART:20200226T100000Z DTEND:20200226T110000Z UID:c071e05a-4cdd-4c6a-9ec3-56ccf1c220ec DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O seminar of Raghu Meka (U CLA) with the title ' Secret Sharing Resilient against Leakage and Tamperi ng' .\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\nD.N.Dadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Ro om L016 (Science Park 123 - Amsterdam) LOCATION:CWI\, Room L016 (Science Park 123 - Amsterdam) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Postponed: SDP Days - a workshop on Applications of Semidefinite Optimization DTSTART:20200506T120000Z DTEND:20200507T130000Z UID:30564ad0-8ee6-47ab-9977-0334da70b440 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the SDP Days\; a workshop on App lications of Semidefinite Optimization. More information can be found on t he webpage.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nLec ture room CWI\, Science Park 123\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Lecture room CWI\, Science Park 123\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online tutorial lectures on Polynomial Optimization (POEMA) DTSTART:20200527T140000Z DTEND:20200527T150000Z UID:e355ea7f-ebba-4e96-a747-1cdcd7035db2 DESCRIPTION:This is to announce the forthcoming series of online lectures on the subject of Polynomial Optimization and Applications\, within the Ma rie-Curie ITN Network POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency through Moments and Algebra). The lectures will be weekly\, on Wednesday at 16h00 \, starting on Wednesday 27 May. They will be given by the following scien tists: - Didier Henrion (LAAS-Toulouse) - Edouard Pauwels (Institut de Rec herche en Informatique de Toulouse) - Cordian Riener (The Artic University of Norway) - Mihai Putinar (University of California at Santa Barbara) P articipation is free but you need to register in order to be given access to the lectures. Details can be found at the POEMA website. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online lectures on the subject of Polynomial Optimization and Appl ications DTSTART:20200610T140000Z DTEND:20200610T150000Z UID:63e2d5d9-97cd-4484-9a11-5fd752ff0832 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to the lecture on Polynomial optimal contr ol by Didier Henrion (LAAS-Toulouse) This talk is part of the online lect ures on the subject of Polynomial Optimization and Applications\, within t he Marie-Curie ITN Network POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency thr ough Moments and Algebra). END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online tutorial lectures on Polynomial Optimization (POEMA) DTSTART:20200617T140000Z DTEND:20200617T150000Z UID:db8c75ad-35cd-403d-a669-2c87614a7faf DESCRIPTION:This is to announce the forthcoming series of online lectures by Edouard Pauwels (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) on the subject of "Christoffel-Darboux Kernels"\, within the Marie-Curie ITN Network POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency through Moments and Al gebra). The lectures will take place on Wednesday 17 June\, Wednesday 24 June and Wednesday 1 July\, at 16h00. Participation is free but you need to register in order to be given access to the lectures. Details on the pr ogram and for registration can be found at the POEMA website. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Bernard Zweers (CWI) DTSTART:20200618T113000Z DTEND:20200618T123000Z UID:0fe56e0a-e20d-4507-b34f-f7da7219735a DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the on-line lecture of Bernard Z weers (CWI) entitled: Maximum Coverage with Cluster Constraints: An LP-Bas ed Approximation Technique. The meeting will take place on zoom: https://u s02web.zoom.us/j/89018344147\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online tutorial lectures on Polynomial Optimization (POEMA) DTSTART:20200624T140000Z DTEND:20200624T150000Z UID:856fe46f-97d7-46de-9db1-2da96923bad8 DESCRIPTION:This is to announce the forthcoming series of online lectures on the subject of Polynomial Optimization and Applications\, within the Ma rie-Curie ITN Network POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency through Moments and Algebra). Participation is free but you need to register in or der to be given access to the lectures. Details on the program and for reg istration can be found at the POEMA website END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online lectures on the subject of Polynomial Optimization and Appl ications DTSTART:20200701T140000Z DTEND:20200701T150000Z UID:175d808b-bf3f-4a9c-a1f4-7b2a61db8ebc DESCRIPTION:This is to announce the forthcoming series of online lectures by Edouard Pauwels (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) on the subject of "Christoffel-Darboux Kernels"\, within the Marie-Curie ITN Network POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency through Moments and Al gebra). Participation is free but you need to register in order to be give n access to the lectures. Details on the program and for registration can be found at the POEMA website: http://poema-network.eu/index.php/news-and- events/project-workshops/7-poema-online-learning-weeks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Samarth Tiwari (CWI) DTSTART:20200702T120000Z DTEND:20200702T130000Z UID:78ae97b6-f5e2-436d-b796-fa8bb02536da DESCRIPTION:Iedereen is welkom voor de N&O lezing van Samarth Tiwari met als titel 'On the Complexity of Branching Proofs' via zoom: https://us02we b.zoom.us/j/89018344147\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online tutorial lectures on Polynomial Optimization (POEMA) DTSTART:20200708T140000Z DTEND:20200708T150000Z UID:85da5118-4b5c-4298-8739-276906b497e2 DESCRIPTION:This is to announce the online lecture by Cordian Riener (UiT The Artic University of Norway) on the subject of "Symmetries in algorith mic questions in real algebraic geometry"\, within the Marie-Curie ITN Net work POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency through Moments and Algeb ra). Participation is free but you need to register in order to be given access to the lectures. Details on the program and for registration can be found at the POEMA website: http://poema-network.eu/index.php/news-and-ev ents/project-workshops/7-poema-online-learning-weeks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online lectures on the subject of Polynomial Optimization and Appl ications DTSTART:20200715T140000Z DTEND:20200715T150000Z UID:c8136202-3fe3-4a8b-bce7-2fa4bd14e5ba DESCRIPTION:This is to announce the forthcoming series of online lectures by Cordian Riener (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) within the Marie- Curie ITN Network POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency through Mome nts and Algebra). Participation is free but you need to register in order to be given access to the lectures. Details on the program and for regist ration can be found at the POEMA website: http://poema-network.eu/index.ph p/news-and-events/project-workshops/7-poema-online-learning-weeks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online lectures on the subject of Polynomial Optimization and Appl ications DTSTART:20200722T140000Z DTEND:20200722T150000Z UID:3ed54223-9bb8-4842-a256-6986ae58e262 DESCRIPTION:We herewith announce the online lecture of Cordian Riener (Ui T The Arctic University of Norway) on Symmetries in algorithmic questions in real algebraic geometry\, within the Marie-Curie ITN Network POEMA (Pol ynomial Optimization\, Efficiency through Moments and Algebra). Participat ion is free but you need to register in order to be given access to the le ctures. Details can be found at the POEMA website: http://poema-network.eu /index.php/news-and-events/project-workshops/7-poema-online-learning-weeks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online tutorial lectures on Polynomial Optimization (POEMA) DTSTART:20200902T160000Z DTEND:20200902T170000Z UID:a6cdd5f9-718d-48c4-95d3-cedeb29967a3 DESCRIPTION:This is to announce the forthcoming series of online lectures by Mihai Putinar (University of California at Santa Barbara)\, within the Marie-Curie ITN Network POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency throug h Moments and Algebra). The lectures will take place on Wednesdays\, 2\, 9 and 16 September at 18h00. Participation is free but you need to regist er in order to be given access to the lectures. Details on the program and for registration can be found at the POEMA website: http://poema-network. eu/index.php/news-and-events/project-workshops/7-poema-online-learning-wee ks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online lecture on the subject of Polynomial Optimization and Appli cations: Prof. Mihai Putinar DTSTART:20200916T160000Z DTEND:20200916T170000Z UID:d4d60078-7baa-4b29-ba81-589a434b51d0 DESCRIPTION:We herewith announce the online lectures by Mihai Putinar (Uni versity of California at Santa Barbara)\, within the Marie-Curie ITN Netwo rk POEMA (Polynomial Optimization\, Efficiency through Moments and Algebra ). Participation is free but you need to register in order to be given ac cess to the lectures. Details on the program and for registration can be f ound at the POEMA website: http://poema-network.eu/index.php/news-and-even ts/project-workshops/7-poema-online-learning-weeks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:4th Workshop of the CWI-Inria International Lab (On-line) DTSTART:20200924T113000Z DTEND:20200924T153000Z UID:5f904061-f7fb-465c-a721-86091bc487d4 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the fourth CWI-Inria workshop. S peakers are: Adrien Taylor (Inria)\, Rianne de Heide (CWI)\, Thomas van B insbergen (CWI) and Peter Grunwald (CWI). Please visit the website for inf ormation about title’s and abstracts. Participation is only possible wit h an invitation sent by e-mail\, afterwards you'll receive the details for the connection. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:POEMA Workshop: foundations of polynomial optimization (online) DTSTART:20201020T073000Z DTEND:20201020T150000Z UID:c68a5247-8f8f-45dc-8b78-527c5b1ac5da DESCRIPTION:The 2nd POEMA workshop is dedicated to the foundations of poly nomial optimization. There will be talks in a broad range of topics by est ablished expert researchers. These lectures will take place on the followi ng dates: Tuesday 20 October\, Thursday 26 November\, and Friday 11 Decemb er. The lectures will be online. Everyone interested may participate\, bu t please register in order to receive the connection details. The program of the workshop and the link for registration can be found here: http://p oema-network.eu/index.php/news-and-events/project-workshops/6-poema-learni ng-week-and-2nd-workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Online POEMA Workshop DTSTART:20201126T100000Z DTEND:20201127T153000Z UID:b4e7b929-da30-4849-991e-4db0eb252183 DESCRIPTION:The 2nd POEMA workshop is dedicated to the foundations of poly nomial optimization. There will be talks in a broad range of topics by est ablished expert researchers. These lectures will take place on the follow ing dates: Thursday 26 November - Friday 27 November and Friday 11 Decembe r. The lectures will be online. Everyone interested may participate\, bu t please register in order to receive the connection details. The program of the workshop and the link for registration can be found here: http://p oema-network.eu/index.php/news-and-events/project-workshops/6-poema-learni ng-week-and-2nd-workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IGAFIT Algorithmic Colloquium DTSTART:20201126T130000Z DTEND:20201126T140000Z UID:2a1e032c-41a7-4eaa-a128-308114551766 DESCRIPTION:IGAFIT Algorithmic Colloquium is a new online seminar series o rganized by IGAFIT. The event aims to provide a forum for research exchang e and scientific interaction\, to integrate the European algorithmic commu nity\, and to keep the community connected during the times of the pandemi c. The goal is to present the highlights of algorithmic research and the m ost exciting works in this area.\n\nContact:\nNikhil Bansal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2nd POEMA workshop (online) DTSTART:20201211T080000Z DTEND:20201211T154500Z UID:0c2722a9-b4d6-4322-a0fa-dfb1269dcd1c DESCRIPTION:The 2nd POEMA workshop is dedicated to the foundations of poly nomial optimization. There will be talks in a broad range of topics by est ablished expert researchers. Everyone interested may participate\, but ple ase register in order to receive the connection details. The program of th e workshop and the link for registration can be found here: http://poema-n etwork.eu/index.php/news-and-events/project-workshops/6-poema-learning-wee k-and-2nd-workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Kick-off: the Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) DTSTART:20201216T150000Z DTEND:20201216T160000Z UID:a4acb2af-fc62-44a2-a1d9-30cb8faa26c3 DESCRIPTION:It is our great pleasure to announce the Dutch Seminar on Opti mization as a new initiative to bring together researchers from the Nether lands and beyond. The goal of this initiative is to establish a new forum for the Dutch optimization community to come together\, to help provide a spotlight for up and coming local talent\, and to bring in high quality in ternational speakers. The topics of the seminar are centered around Optimi zation in a broad sense\, but with a focus on (though not limited to) the theoretical foundations of discrete and continuous optimization. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are wo rking on related topics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\nda dush@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) DTSTART:20210128T150000Z DTEND:20210128T160000Z UID:68ab220e-fb39-4a7f-a581-5958d63dc21c DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond. The objective is to es tablish a new forum for the Dutch optimization community to come together\ , to help provide a spotlight for up and coming local talent\, and to brin g in high quality international speakers. Next talk by David de Laat (TU Delft) . For more information please visit the website.\n\nContact:\nDanie l Dadush\ndadush@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:NMC 2021 (Dutch Mathematical Congress) DTSTART:20210128T150000Z DTEND:20210128T160000Z UID:3ccd6ab8-a988-4cf5-a6ac-06b14998822f DESCRIPTION:The organizing committee of NMC has composed a programme conta ining various online activities at different times during the year: we pro udly present the NMC 2021 Series! Starting date 28 January 2021. For more information and registration please visit the website. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization with Santanu Dey from Georgia Tech (Online series) DTSTART:20210225T150000Z DTEND:20210225T160000Z UID:2ff32f5d-771d-4134-a04e-74317713c4df DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online lecture of Santanu De y with the title ' Sparse PSD approximation of the PSD cone'. More informa tion\, also about (free) registration\, can be found on the website.\n\nCo ntact:\nDaniel Dadush\ndadush@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:NMC 2021 (online series): International Day of Mathematics DTSTART:20210315T140000Z DTEND:20210315T163000Z UID:812877d1-c536-484f-a6bc-ee08540ec925 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend\, as part of the online series o f NMC 2021 ((Dutch Mathematical Congress)\, the official celebration of th e International Day of Mathematics. Several captivating talks will be give n by fellow mathematicians from different fields of research\, as Pieter K leer (MPI-Inf\, former CWI/N&O) on 'Generation of random graphs with given degrees'. All Information and registration can be found on the website: h ttps://mathematischcongres.nl/event/international-day-of-mathematics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar: Simon Telen (MPI Leipzig) DTSTART:20210317T130000Z DTEND:20210317T140000Z UID:e580b26a-39d6-43d2-9c60-5394ba44424d DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online N&O seminar with Simo n Telen (MPI Leipzig). Title: Eigenvalue methods for solving polynomial sy stems. Please contact Daniel Dadush for the zoom link.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\ndadush@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Moritz Buchem ( Maastricht) + Michelle Sweering (CWI) DTSTART:20210325T150000Z DTEND:20210325T160000Z UID:6463c34f-05ae-4bfa-b219-68a1bc83fd77 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the Dutch Seminar on Optimizatio n (online series) with: Moritz Buchem: Additive Approximation Schemes for Load Balancing problems and Michelle Sweering: Breaking k-Trusses. All inf ormation can be found on the website: https://portals.project.cwi.nl/dutch -optimization-seminar/events/seminar-moritz-buchem-maastricht-michelle-swe ering-cwi-2-phd-talks\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\ndadush@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IGAFIT Algorithmic Colloquium (online series): Tim Roughgarden (Co lumbia University) DTSTART:20210325T150000Z DTEND:20210325T160000Z UID:f217c116-184c-4bcc-a0a7-8f1240d22abf DESCRIPTION:IGAFIT Algorithmic Colloquium is a online seminar series organ ized by IGAFIT. The event aims to provide a forum for research exchange an d scientific interaction\, to integrate the European algorithmic community \, and to keep the community connected during the times of the pandemic. T he goal is to present the highlights of algorithmic research and the most exciting works in this area. Nikhil Bansal (CWI\, N&O group) is member of the organizing committee. The upcoming seminar features Tim Roughgarden (C olumbia University). Title of his lecture: Beyond Worst-Case Analysis. To subscribe to the ICAFIT Algorithmic Colloquium mailing list with announcem ents send an email to igafit-colloquium-request@mimuw.edu.pl with subject SUBSCRIBE.\n\nContact:\nNikhil Bansal\nigafit-colloquium-request@mimuw.edu .pl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar: Willem Feijen (CWI) DTSTART:20210401T090000Z DTEND:20210401T100000Z UID:26903347-e83f-43ed-8039-801f5b9b63d6 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online N&O seminar with Will em Feijen (CWI). Title of his lecture: Using Machine Learning Predictions to Speed-up Dijkstra's Shortest Path Algorithm. For information you may co ntact Daniel Dadush (dadush at cwi.nl)\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\ndadush@ cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:IGAFIT Algorithmic Colloquium: Karl Bringmann\, Saarland Universit y DTSTART:20210408T120000Z DTEND:20210408T130000Z UID:8373acc1-563a-4960-9dc2-01baaca23d09 DESCRIPTION:This new online event aims to integrate the European algorithm ic community. Speaker: Karl Bringmann\, Saarland University. Title: Fine- Grained Complexity of Optimization Problems. Nikhil Bansal (N&O) is one of the organizers. The meeting will be held using Airmeet platform and to at tend please go to https://www.airmeet.com/e/c5d58880-9240-11eb-974a-f53cdf e77b59.\n\nContact:\nNikhil Bansal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Juan Peypouquet (Groningen) DTSTART:20210429T140000Z DTEND:20210429T150000Z UID:5aa4f471-4c03-4c6f-b9b9-3a3bdc9cf91c DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events. This lecture will be given by Juan Peypouquet (R U Groningen) and is entitled "Function Curvature and Algorithm Complexity in Convex Optimization". Please visit the seminar website for more informa tion.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nsven.polak@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar: Sander Borst (CWI) DTSTART:20210511T110000Z DTEND:20210511T120000Z UID:07d22d7c-49df-420a-84ca-f2ea658157f3 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend this online N&O seminar\, with S ander Borst. Title: On the Integrality Gap of Binary Integer Programs with Gaussian Data. Please contact Sven Polak for the zoom link.\n\nContact:\n Sven Polak\nsven.polak@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Celine Swennenh uis (TU/E) and Sophie Huiberts (CWI) DTSTART:20210527T140000Z DTEND:20210527T150000Z UID:9bb8be12-6dd4-4765-81b4-cc29ad531f16 DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events. These lectures will be given by Celine Swennenhu is (TU/E) and Sophie Huiberts (CWI). The lecture of Celine Swennenhuis is entitled "A Faster Exponential Time Algorithm for Bin Packing With a Const ant Number of Bins"\, and the lecture of Sophie Huiberts is entitled "Comb inatorial Diameter of Random Polytopes". Please visit the seminar website for more information.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nsven.pol ak@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar: Marek Elias (CWI) DTSTART:20210617T113000Z DTEND:20210617T123000Z UID:364818d4-0f1b-4842-9bd8-336acedb7705 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the on-line N&O seminar with Mar ek Elias. Title of his lecture: Differentially Private Release of Syntheti c Graphs. Please contact Daniel Dadush for the zoom link.\n\nContact:\nDan iel Dadush\ndadush@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Rising Star Talk by Sophie Huiberts on 'Why Can We Solve (Integer) Linear Programs?' at TCS Women 2021 DTSTART:20210622T130000Z DTEND:20210622T160000Z UID:f5f4c40e-92da-4fce-ba86-cfcc7e53a6a1 DESCRIPTION:Sophie Huiberts (CWI) will give a Rising Star Talk - 'Why Can We Solve (Integer) Linear Programs?' - at the TCS Women Spotlight Workshop of STOC2021 on 22 June 2021.\n\nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with several speaker s DTSTART:20210624T140000Z DTEND:20210624T150000Z UID:7346fc85-17e7-4534-9494-04ae105fddfe DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events. This session will be a "Lightning Talks"-session \, in which several speakers can give a short talk about 5 minutes about a topic they like. Please visit the seminar website for more information.\n \nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\ndadush@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop CWI-Inria International Lab DTSTART:20210705T090000Z DTEND:20210706T100000Z UID:64f2da81-fe8b-42fa-92cb-4144c5a20119 DESCRIPTION:Workshop 2021 of the CWI-Inria International Lab. The aim of t his workshop is to explore possibilities for new research collaborations b etween CWI and Inria. The workshop will bring together researchers from In ria and CWI and feature several sessions\, each of them consisting of shor t presentations and discussions around a selected research area. Participa tion is free but registration is mandatory. You can find the details about the program and how to register at the following webpage: https://project .inria.fr/inriacwi/workshop-2021/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Samuel Fiorini (Université libre de Bruxelles) DTSTART:20210826T140000Z DTEND:20210826T150000Z UID:bf6c5a3e-760f-4927-a6fb-0beb97e56d7d DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events. This lecture will be given by Samuel Fiorini (Un iversité libre de Bruxelles) and is entitled "Integer programs with bound ed subdeterminants and two nonzeros per row". Please visit the seminar web site for more information.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nsven .polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nonline LOCATION:online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization: talk by Martin Skutella (TU Berlin) DTSTART:20210930T140000Z DTEND:20210930T150000Z UID:1188a47b-5134-4df3-996e-2281459ecd7b DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online seminar by Martin Sku tella (TU Berlin). The title of his lecture is: A Faster Algorithm for Qui ckest Transshipments via an Extended Discrete Newton Method. You will find more information on the website: https://portals.project.cwi.nl/dutch-opt imization-seminar/dutch-optimization-seminar\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\nD .N.Dadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOn-line seminar LOCATION:On-line seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Lucas Slot (CWI ) and Juan José Maulén (Groningen) DTSTART:20211028T140000Z DTEND:20211028T150000Z UID:8d9c6684-1e21-4089-a978-8f1f217bc3e1 DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events. These lectures will be given by Lucas Slot (CWI) and Juan José Maulén (Groningen). The lecture by Lucas Slot is entitled "Degree bounds for positivity certificates and the polynomial kernel meth od" and the lecture by Juan José Maulén is entitled "Acceleration of fix ed point algorithms via inertia". Please visit the seminar website for mo re information.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nsven.polak@cwi. nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Britta Peis (RW TH Aachen University) DTSTART:20211123T150000Z DTEND:20211123T160000Z UID:47277e13-965e-4905-bc64-7b474d7d6669 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online seminar by Britta Pei s (RWTH Aachen University). The title of her lecture is: Primal-dual appro ximation framework for weighted integer covering problems. You will find m ore information on the website: https://portals.project.cwi.nl/dutch-optim ization-seminar/dutch-optimization-seminar\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush or S ven Polak\nD.N.Dadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Hadi Abbaszadeh peivasti (Tilburg) and Utku Karaca (Erasmus University) DTSTART:20211209T150000Z DTEND:20211209T160000Z UID:c940e57c-d48e-4e0f-bfad-2a735eca12c3 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online seminar consisting of lectures by Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti (Tilburg) and Utku Karaca (Erasmus Un iversity). The title of the lecture of Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti is: On the convergence rate of DCA. The title of the lecture of Utku Karaca is: Diffe rentially Private Resource Sharing. You will find more information on the website: https://portals.project.cwi.nl/dutch-optimization-seminar/dutch-o ptimization-seminar\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nD.N.Dadush@ cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Digital Energy: Na Li (Harvard University) DTSTART:20220112T140000Z DTEND:20220112T150000Z UID:9dc04f5a-c1c2-4e55-a3db-f593a1e5c3ad DESCRIPTION:This new seminar series aims to bring together mathematics and CS researchers from the Netherlands and internationally\, working on anal ytical techniques for next-generation energy systems. On 12 January\, Na L i (Harvard University) will talk about 'Learning and control for residenti al demand response'.\n\nContact:\nValentin Robu\nv.robu@cwi.nl\n\nLocation :\nvia Zoom LOCATION:via Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Andreas Wiese ( VU Amsterdam) DTSTART:20220127T150000Z DTEND:20220127T160000Z UID:d44c9dad-1101-42b2-9baa-6117b6e24602 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online seminar by Andreas Wi ese (VU Amsterdam). The title of his lecture is: A PTAS for the Unsplittab le Flow on a Path problem. You will find more information on the website: https://portals.project.cwi.nl/dutch-optimization-seminar/dutch-optimizati on-seminar\n\nContact:\nSven Polak or Daniel Dadush\nsven.polak@cwi.nl\n\n Location:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Sven Polak (CWI) DTSTART:20220202T100000Z DTEND:20220202T110000Z UID:296b20ad-1724-4f16-bf59-080957677eec DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Sven P olak with the title 'Mutually unbiased bases: polynomial optimization and symmetry'.\n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\, Sven Polak and Samarth Tiwari\nSam arth.Tiwari@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0.17 and online LOCATION:L0.17 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) "lightning talks" I- 2022\, with several speakers DTSTART:20220210T150000Z DTEND:20220210T160000Z UID:4afac774-060e-437f-ab5d-41455952d04b DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush or Sven Polak\nD.N.Da dush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Alex L Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) DTSTART:20220216T150000Z DTEND:20220216T160000Z UID:a66f7941-4cfe-4750-b10f-56e682c2a5b1 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Alex L Wang with the title 'First-order methods for nonconvex quadratically cons trained quadratic programs'.\n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari a nd Sven Polak\nsven.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar\, possible t o watch in L0.17 at CWI LOCATION:Online seminar\, possible to watch in L0.17 at CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Samarth Tiwari (CWI) DTSTART:20220302T100000Z DTEND:20220302T110000Z UID:9bddde1c-31bf-491e-b57a-5b0341099387 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Samart h Tiwari with the title 'Hide & Seek: Privacy-Preserving Rebalancing on Pa yment Channel Networks'.\n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and S ven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0.17 and online LOCATION:L0.17 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Friedrich Eisen brand (EPFL Lausanne) DTSTART:20220303T150000Z DTEND:20220303T160000Z UID:2de54d2a-b6f2-4e73-b1a6-468e4b7cd8ad DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nSven Polak or Daniel Dadush\nsven.p olak@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Marten van Dijk (CWI) DTSTART:20220316T100000Z DTEND:20220316T110000Z UID:62acc62a-869b-4123-bab5-06ec4606aa0b DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Marten van Dijk with the title 'Asynchronous SGD over Distributed Local Data Set s with Differential Privacy.\n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari a nd Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0.17 and online LOCATION:L0.17 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Marten van Dijk (CWI) DTSTART:20220316T100000Z DTEND:20220316T110000Z UID:bbeb49c7-7550-4454-aa7d-fb1112e90fd2 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Marten van Dijk with the title 'Asynchronous SGD over Distributed Local Data Set s with Differential Privacy.\n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari a nd Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL017 and online LOCATION:L017 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Tristan van Leeuwen (CWI) DTSTART:20220330T090000Z DTEND:20220330T100000Z UID:548f14da-f833-472f-939d-26926a061627 DESCRIPTION:\n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns .c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0.17 and online LOCATION:L0.17 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Tristan van Leeuwen (CWI) DTSTART:20220330T090000Z DTEND:20220330T100000Z UID:3475bbfb-b27e-4ec6-9f80-364b60281f74 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Trista n van Leeuwen with the title 'Optimisation challenges in computational ima ging'.\n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns.c.pol ak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL017 and online LOCATION:L017 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Esteban Gabory (CWI) and Donato Maragno (UvA) DTSTART:20220331T140000Z DTEND:20220331T150000Z UID:8f387da4-ccd3-4416-9a79-9289bf43115c DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\ndadus h@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Pieter Kleer (Tilburg University) DTSTART:20220413T090000Z DTEND:20220413T100000Z UID:ba4797e5-0651-436e-a4ef-b33553022de7 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Pieter Kleer with the title 'Optimal Stopping Theory for a Distributionally Robu st Seller'.\n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns. c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0.16 (also possible to watch online) LOCATION:L0.16 (also possible to watch online) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Krzysztof Poste k (TU Delft) DTSTART:20220428T140000Z DTEND:20220428T150000Z UID:8daa1757-da09-40db-8fa4-140f9251ed58 DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nD.N.D adush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Carla Groenland (Utrecht University) DTSTART:20220504T090000Z DTEND:20220504T100000Z UID:f680c1f4-f4f5-43fb-affd-12fcee99a36f DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Carla Groenland with the title 'Universal Graphs and Labelling Schemes'.\n\nCont act:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nL ocation:\nL0.17 (also possible to watch online) LOCATION:L0.17 (also possible to watch online) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sophie Huiberts (N&O) DTSTART:20220516T121500Z DTEND:20220516T131500Z UID:da08365f-ceef-4b3c-8a3b-688d94ff2d8d DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Sophie Hui berts. Title ' Geometric Aspects of Linear Programming' .\n\nLocation:\nAc ademiegebouw\, Utrecht University LOCATION:Academiegebouw\, Utrecht University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sophie Huiberts (N&O) DTSTART:20220516T121500Z DTEND:20220516T131500Z UID:1a6bcc96-4f67-47d7-a54e-3c3ea6adacd8 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Sophie Hui berts\, of her thesis ' Geometric Aspects of Lineair Programming - Shadow Paths\, Central Paths\, and a Cutting Plane Method'.\n\nContact:\nSophie H uiberts\nsophie@huiberts.me\n\nLocation:\nUniversity Hall\, Utrecht Univer sity LOCATION:University Hall\, Utrecht University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Jasper van Door nmalen (TU/e) and Daniel Brosch (Tilburg University) DTSTART:20220524T140000Z DTEND:20220524T150000Z UID:149b9ccd-2029-4d05-8e46-7483e63f067c DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nsven. polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Sophie Huiberts (CWI) DTSTART:20220601T090000Z DTEND:20220601T100000Z UID:66610efa-8942-41d4-9023-7d2395e66840 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Sophie Huiberts with the title 'Self-Adjusting Networks'.\n\nContact:\nWillem Fe ijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0.17 and online LOCATION:L0.17 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin) DTSTART:20220615T090000Z DTEND:20220615T100000Z UID:a634e720-9315-43a8-bf59-8f5b4c8c8c4e DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Stefan Schmid with the title 'Self-Adjusting Networks'.\n\nContact:\nWillem Feij en\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0.17 a nd online LOCATION:L0.17 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Vera Traub (ETH Zürich) DTSTART:20220630T130000Z DTEND:20220630T140000Z UID:5ac32b20-44eb-49a7-90e2-7cd72864e382 DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nD.N.D adush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Sophie Klumper (CWI) DTSTART:20220706T090000Z DTEND:20220706T100000Z UID:6cea5460-e632-4485-ba35-a87007f9fe36 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Sophie Huiberts with the title 'Self-Adjusting Networks'.\n\nContact:\nWillem Fe ijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0.17 and online LOCATION:L0.17 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Ilker Birbil (U niversity of Amsterdam) DTSTART:20220825T140000Z DTEND:20220825T150000Z UID:ec868a4a-0afb-49d9-9b72-385661951b76 DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nD.N.D adush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Ferenc Bencs (UvA) DTSTART:20220826T090000Z DTEND:20220826T100000Z UID:3b3445dd-b224-489b-a204-bbbfb8ef6c2e DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Ferenc Bencs with the title "A uniqueness result about Gibbs measures"\n\nContac t:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\nsven.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLo cation:\nL1.20 LOCATION:L1.20 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Semidefinite and Polynomial Optimization (semester pro gramme) DTSTART:20220829T073000Z DTEND:20220902T100000Z UID:9fb72ec7-b01d-4e5b-8c5a-a73d1a32641e DESCRIPTION:This workshop is dedicated to recent developments in semidefin ite and polynomial optimization\, and their applications in combinatorial and continuous optimization\, discrete geometry and quantum information.\n \nLocation:\nEuler room\, next to CWI LOCATION:Euler room\, next to CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Ruben Brokkelkamp (N&O) DTSTART:20220921T090000Z DTEND:20220921T100000Z UID:5214c16e-25bc-49b5-beeb-c2b1818edfc1 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defense of Ruben\, o f his thesis ' how close does it get? From Near-Optimal Network Algorithms to Suboptimal Equilibrium Outcomes'\n\nContact:\nRuben Brokkelkamp\n\nLoc ation:\nAula - Oude Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula - Oude Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Kevin Shu (Georgia Tech) DTSTART:20220928T140000Z DTEND:20220928T150000Z UID:9f6df2a4-ce6c-4aef-a755-e6404572651d DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Kevin Shu with the title 'Sparse Quadratic Programs via Polynomial Roots'.\n\nCo ntact:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\ nLocation:\nOnline and in L0.17 LOCATION:Online and in L0.17 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Jesse van Rijn (Twente) and Sander Borst (CWI) DTSTART:20220929T140000Z DTEND:20220929T150000Z UID:771a7ad6-53ee-424b-bf9e-d7fcf5b16083 DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events.\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nD.N.D adush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline seminar LOCATION:Online seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Lucas Slot (N&O) DTSTART:20220930T080000Z DTEND:20220930T093000Z UID:2cc17905-28f9-473a-ac4d-dd96641d4cb8 DESCRIPTION:Everyone was welcome to attend the public defense of Lucas Slo t\, of his thesis ' Asymptotic Analysis of Semidefinite Bounds for Polynom ial Optimization and Independent Sets in Geometric Hypergraphs'. He gradua ted with honours ('cum laude').\n\nContact:\nLucas Slot\nlucas@cwi.nl\n\nL ocation:\nAula in the Cobbenhagen building\, Warandelaan 2\, in Tilburg LOCATION:Aula in the Cobbenhagen building\, Warandelaan 2\, in Tilburg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Solving Polynomial Equations and Applications (semeste r programme) DTSTART:20221005T073000Z DTEND:20221007T140000Z UID:c0be5821-f2e4-45ca-b4b5-b1bb811b15b8 DESCRIPTION:This workshop will feature a friendly introduction to existing methods\, presentations of the latest software tools and research talks b y experts in the field. The focus will be on new trends and methodology\, as well as applications in the sciences.\n\nLocation:\nEuler room\, next t o CWI LOCATION:Euler room\, next to CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Simon Telen (CWI) DTSTART:20221012T090000Z DTEND:20221012T100000Z UID:949c9b62-69c8-400b-b1f1-1b826922df1b DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Simon Telen with the title 'Toric geometry of entropic regularization.'\n\nConta ct:\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O seminar: Kemal Rose (MPI MIS Leipzig) DTSTART:20221026T090000Z DTEND:20221026T100000Z UID:9c5a005c-e6a0-45b1-903f-192fac33dcc2 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the next N&O seminar with Kemal Rose with the title 'Algebraic optimization of decision rules'.\n\nContact :\nWillem Feijen\, Samarth Tiwari and Sven Polak\ns.c.polak@cwi.nl\n\nLoca tion:\nL0.17 LOCATION:L0.17 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CWI Lectures on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Optimization (2 022) DTSTART:20221116T120000Z DTEND:20221116T170000Z UID:f4d41a91-b707-4b5f-99b2-68c5f74b7c17 DESCRIPTION:These CWI Lectures are devoted to novel solution methods that combine dedicated algebraic and geometric approaches and sophisticated com putational tools from mathematics and computer science. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Polynomial Optimization and Applications in Control an d Energy (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20221117T083000Z DTEND:20221118T160000Z UID:bf37d193-e6f8-4a43-b531-4f7780c1e0da DESCRIPTION:This workshop is devoted to the application of polynomial opti mization methods in the analysis and control of dynamical systems and ener gy networks.\n\nContact:\nMonique Laurent & Bert Zwart\n\nLocation:\nCWI LOCATION:CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (online series) with Carla Groenland (Utrecht University) DTSTART:20221122T150000Z DTEND:20221122T160000Z UID:6c6ac270-f9da-4b1f-970e-95ebded71cc8 DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events. The next talk is given by Carla Groenland (Utrec ht University)\, with title: List Colouring Trees in Logspace.\n\nContact: \nDaniel Dadush and Sven Polak\nD.N.Dadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnline sem inar\, possible to watch in L0.17 at CWI LOCATION:Online seminar\, possible to watch in L0.17 at CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Pengfei Wang (CNRS - LIRMM Montpellier) DTSTART:20230215T100000Z DTEND:20230215T110000Z UID:329a01c6-9c93-42d4-a766-9d933cd8ace8 DESCRIPTION:Combinatorics of period sets\n\nLocation:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Optimization Seminar: Christopher Hojny (TU/e) DTSTART:20230223T150000Z DTEND:20230223T160000Z UID:31120bf5-7a49-4f28-b0bd-e202bcd5db41 DESCRIPTION:The Dutch Seminar on Optimization is an initiative to bring to gether researchers from the Netherlands and beyond\, with topics that are centered around Optimization in a broad sense. We would like to invite all researchers\, especially also PhD students\, who are working on related t opics to join the events. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Networks and Optimization Seminar: Wouter Koolen DTSTART:20230301T100000Z DTEND:20230301T110000Z UID:6980b9e4-fff0-4f99-967d-7d4702d64c25 DESCRIPTION:On topics in machine learning theory and related areas\, inclu ding game theory\, information theory\, statistics and optimisation\n\nCon tact:\nSven Polak\nSven.Polak@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L017\, CWI\, Scien ce Park 123 Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L017\, CWI\, Science Park 123 Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Algebra\, Geometry and Computation at CWI DTSTART:20230309T083000Z DTEND:20230309T160000Z UID:c1e193d8-dc43-41b6-80d6-485a8815cbef DESCRIPTION:Featuring a series of talks with title 'What is ...?'\, where the dots are filled in according to each of the speakers' expertise.\n\nCo ntact:\nSimon Telen\nSimon.Telen@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 CWI\, Scie nce Park 123\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 CWI\, Science Park 123\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20230330T140000Z DTEND:20230330T150000Z UID:3a66e774-b373-456c-8d8e-afa21cfb6e94 DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Harold Nieuwboer (UvA & Ruhr University Bo chum) and Lucy Verberk (TU/e)\n\nContact:\nSven Polak\nSven.Polak@cwi.nl\n \nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Optimization Intercity Seminar DTSTART:20230504T123000Z DTEND:20230504T150000Z UID:55e6dd9c-3baa-4981-9851-00a093bb5b54 DESCRIPTION:with Yasamin Nazari (VU) and William Cook (University of Water loo)\n\nContact:\nDaniel Dadush\nDaniel.Dadush@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L 017\, CWI\, Science Park 123 Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L017\, CWI\, Science Park 123 Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CWI/IDEAS meeting DTSTART:20230511T090000Z DTEND:20230511T150000Z UID:cc7e872a-dabf-4bf4-ba7c-b9751659c47a DESCRIPTION:Kick-off meeting of a new collaboration initiative between CWI and IDEAS NCBR.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nSusanne.van.Dam@cwi.nl\n\nL ocation:\nRoom L016 CWI\, Science Park 123\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 CWI\, Science Park 123\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch Seminar on Optimization (N&O) DTSTART:20230523T140000Z DTEND:20230523T150000Z UID:de6c4c04-2c85-489a-8756-e9c98cb32292 DESCRIPTION:Dutch Seminar on Optimization with Anupam Gupta (Carnegie Mell on University)\n\nContact:\nZhuan Koh\nZhuan.Koh@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nOnli ne LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Haotian Jiang DTSTART:20230531T090000Z DTEND:20230531T100000Z UID:a8551960-5be4-41c0-ac1d-36d0aaca9361 DESCRIPTION:N&O seminar on the Matrix Spencer Conjecture by Haotian Jiang\ n\nContact:\nWillem Feijen\nfeijen@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL017 and online LOCATION:L017 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20230629T140000Z DTEND:20230629T150000Z UID:dc898dae-c5f2-4dd5-9805-1655b88c7875 DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Danish Kashaev (CWI) and Arash Pourdamghan i (TU Berlin)\n\nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Philipp di Dio DTSTART:20230707T123000Z DTEND:20230707T143000Z UID:f5e7b32f-3291-43a3-b185-6e3cd8b5d9aa DESCRIPTION:N&O seminar on Gaussian mixtures and the heat equation by Phil ipp di Dio\n\nContact:\nAlexander Blomenhofer\natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0 17 and online LOCATION:L017 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20230831T140000Z DTEND:20230831T150000Z UID:6242734d-cfb3-4df0-be9c-cf9c1bae94d1 DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Leo van Iersel (TU Delft)\n\nLocation:\nOn line LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ALGO 2023 DTSTART:20230904T070000Z DTEND:20230908T110000Z UID:faa398d5-eaa8-43dc-945c-74f93493a3ce DESCRIPTION:ESA: European Symposium on Algorithms\n\nContact:\nSolon Pissi s\nsolon.pissis@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCentrum Wiskunde & Informatica - CWI LOCATION:Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica - CWI END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20230928T140000Z DTEND:20230928T150000Z UID:34898f10-817c-4b5c-96a2-b9430d55c4d2 DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Pedro Zattoni Scroccaro (TU Delft) and Lui s Vargas (CWI)\n\nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Viktoriia Borovik DTSTART:20231004T090000Z DTEND:20231004T103000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Solving systems of polynomial equations using Khovanskii bases .\n\nContact:\nAlexander Blomenhofer\natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 and on line LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Artem Tsikiridis DTSTART:20231018T090000Z DTEND:20231018T103000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Partial Allocations in Budget-Feasible Mechanism Design: Bridg ing Multiple Levels of Service and Divisible Agents\n\nContact:\nSander Bo rst\nsander.borst@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20231019T140000Z DTEND:20231019T150000Z UID:d36fc6fc-420f-43a5-9336-f26808298cbb DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Stefanie Jegelka (MIT)\n\nLocation:\nOnlin e LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Andries Steenkamp (N&O) DTSTART:20231027T080000Z DTEND:20231027T093000Z UID:91661918-bdb8-48c3-ad62-a0f2f0c8288d DESCRIPTION:Polynomial Optimization: Matrix Factorization Ranks\, Portfoli o Selection\, and Queueing Theory\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium\, Cobbenhagen B uilding\, Tilburg University LOCATION:Auditorium\, Cobbenhagen Building\, Tilburg University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Philipp di Dio DTSTART:20231101T100000Z DTEND:20231101T113000Z UID:f5e7b32f-3291-43a3-b185-6e3cd8b5d9aa DESCRIPTION:Sparse Moment Problems and Sparse Positivstellensätze from T- Systems\n\nContact:\nAlexander Blomenhofer\natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop: Algebraic Techniques for Optimization DTSTART:20231102T120000Z DTEND:20231102T160000Z UID:c59bd8a6-f75f-4578-8ee8-dd9efb3a3f5f DESCRIPTION:Selected topics in algebraic techniques for optimization (N&O) \n\nContact:\nMonique Laurent\n\nLocation:\nCWI Room L016 LOCATION:CWI Room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Luis Felipe Vargas Beltrán (N&O) DTSTART:20231103T123000Z DTEND:20231103T133000Z UID:07444a0a-6284-4a2e-b2df-719862987ad3 DESCRIPTION:PhD defence of Luis Felipe Vargas Beltrán on his thesis 'Sum- of-Squares Representations for Copositive Matrices and Independent Sets in Graphs'. He graduated with honours ('cum laude').\n\nLocation:\nAula Tilb urg University LOCATION:Aula Tilburg University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Giulio Zucal DTSTART:20231108T100000Z DTEND:20231108T113000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Action convergence: from graph to hypergraph limits\n\nContact :\nAlexander Blomenhofer\natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Sophie Huiberts DTSTART:20231115T100000Z DTEND:20231115T113000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Sophie Huiberts from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi que (CNRS) gives a seminar titled "Complexity of the simplex method"\n\nCo ntact:\nSander Borst\nsander.borst@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL20 and online LOCATION:L20 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Constantin Ickstadt DTSTART:20231206T100000Z DTEND:20231206T113000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Constantin Ickstadt from Goethe University Frankfurt gives a s eminar titled "Semidefinite Games".\n\nContact:\nSander Borst\nsander.bors t@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Antonios Varvitsiotis DTSTART:20231207T100000Z DTEND:20231207T113000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Antonios Varvitsiotis from Singapore University of Technology and Design gives a seminar titled "Identifying and controlling agent behav ior in games using limited data".\n\nContact:\nSander Borst\nsander.borst@ cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20231207T150000Z DTEND:20231207T160000Z UID:27a10caa-8c36-4268-8afe-ccea80559fa5 DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Hilde Verbeek (CWI) and Bram Bekker (TU De lft).\n\nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Ragnar Groot Koerkamp DTSTART:20231213T100000Z DTEND:20231213T110000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Ragnar Groot Koerkamp from ETH Zurich gives a seminar titled " Exact global alignment using A*".\n\nContact:\nSander Borst\nsander.borst@ cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Bento Natura DTSTART:20231213T100000Z DTEND:20231213T110000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Bento Natura from UC Berkeley & Georgia Tech gives a seminar t itled "The computational complexity of Interior Point Methods for Fast Exa ct Linear Programming".\n\nContact:\nSander Borst\nsander.borst@cwi.nl\n\n Location:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20240125T150000Z DTEND:20240125T160000Z UID:a8159b53-26d8-4c12-bf63-02752769ffed DESCRIPTION:Hybrid seminar with Frank Vallentin (University of Cologne).\n \nLocation:\nL016@CWI and Online LOCATION:L016@CWI and Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Nick Vannieuwenhoven DTSTART:20240219T100000Z DTEND:20240219T110000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Nick Vannieuwenhoven from KU Leuven gives a seminar talk title d "Hadamard-Hitchcock decompositions".\n\nContact:\nAlexander Blomenhofer\ natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20240229T150000Z DTEND:20240229T160000Z UID:85012512-f817-466c-b1e8-032ce9adbd8e DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Sami Davies (Simons Institute & UC Berkele y).\n\nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Kirill Kukharenko DTSTART:20240313T100000Z DTEND:20240306T110000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Kirill Kukharenko from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg gives a seminar titled "All 'round the Simplex Algorithm".\n\nContact:\nSa nder Borst\nsander.borst@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL017 and online LOCATION:L017 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20240326T150000Z DTEND:20240326T160000Z UID:42d4f41f-ad05-4132-a260-ae35d74c05da DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Alireza Yazdani (TU Eindhoven) and Jesse v an Rhijn (University of Twente).\n\nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Tobias Sutter DTSTART:20240410T140000Z DTEND:20240410T150000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Tobias Sutter from Universität Konstanz gives a seminar talk titled "Policy Gradient Algorithms for Robust MDPs with Non-Rectangular Un certainty Sets".\n\nContact:\nAlexander Blomenhofer\natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocatio n:\nL016 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Combinatorics on Words DTSTART:20240415T073000Z DTEND:20240426T103000Z UID:9fd10def-c694-480a-8203-e101875ece9b DESCRIPTION:Lecture on Combinatorics on Words 15-26 April at CWI\n\nContac t:\nEsteban Gabory\, Hilde Verbeek\nEsteban.Gabory@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCW I\, Room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20240423T140000Z DTEND:20240423T150000Z UID:08944d06-f93f-4d44-b17a-0626ecf42221 DESCRIPTION:Hybrid seminar with Caroline Jagtenberg (VU Amsterdam).\n\nLoc ation:\nL016@CWI and Online LOCATION:L016@CWI and Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Maike de Jongh DTSTART:20240515T090000Z DTEND:20240515T100000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Maike de Jongh from Universiteit Twente gives a seminar talk t itled "Optimizing Ising droplet growth using spatiotemporal Markov decisio n theory".\n\nContact:\nAlexander Blomenhofer\natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL0 16 and online LOCATION:L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Jeroen Zuiddam DTSTART:20240529T090000Z DTEND:20240529T100000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Jeroen Zuiddam from UvA / CWI gives a seminar talk titled "Di screteness of asymptotic tensor ranks".\n\nContact:\nAlexander Blomenhofer \natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 and online LOCATION:Room L016 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar Bernhard von Stengel DTSTART:20240607T090000Z DTEND:20240607T100000Z UID:cedbe296-5717-4c59-ad1b-5e7f5a4ff72d DESCRIPTION:Bernhard von Stengel from London School of Economics gives a s eminar talk titled "Zero-Sum Games and Linear Programming Duality".\n\nCon tact:\nAlexander Blomenhofer\natb@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L120 and onlin e LOCATION:Room L120 and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sander Borst (N&O) DTSTART:20240827T140000Z DTEND:20240827T160000Z UID:52dced5f-7b4f-44b0-9d5f-f46533a7c85b DESCRIPTION:Thesis: Branch-and-bound trees\, integrality gaps and online o ptimization\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht\, Domplein 2 9\, Utrecht LOCATION:Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht\, Domplein 29\, Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The 17th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT) DTSTART:20240903T070000Z DTEND:20240906T150000Z UID:3686230e-a3fb-401d-83eb-69b84923e9d8 DESCRIPTION:Welcome to SAGT 2024\n\nLocation:\nAmsterdam Science Park Cong ress Centre\, Science Park 125 LOCATION:Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre\, Science Park 125 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20240912T140000Z DTEND:20240912T150000Z UID:997f2623-d942-4b79-bb65-cfaf50c5a055 DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Aida Khajavirad (Lehigh University)\n\nLoc ation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20240926T140000Z DTEND:20240926T150000Z UID:0fdb5d12-7765-4227-bcbf-aec658bda8ce DESCRIPTION:Hybrid seminar with Neil Olver (LSE)\n\nLocation:\nL016@CWI an d Online LOCATION:L016@CWI and Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20241031T150000Z DTEND:20241031T160000Z UID:b453dbfe-7685-425d-b059-1f0d8f9dbbc1 DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Nando Leijenhorst (TU Delft) and Artem Tsi kiridis (CWI)\n\nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dutch optimization seminar (N&O) DTSTART:20241205T150000Z DTEND:20241205T160000Z UID:fb4ebafa-4213-47d1-b631-21cd82c27653 DESCRIPTION:Online seminar with Steven Miltenburg (VU Amsterdam) and Anton ina Khramova (TU Eindhoven)\n\nLocation:\nOnline LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inaugural lecture Daniel Dadush: Adventures in Optimization DTSTART:20250310T151500Z DTEND:20250310T161500Z UID:92bff7ad-c53a-4b01-8981-40c727a1d892 DESCRIPTION:On 10 March 2025 Daniel Dadush gives his inaugural lecture at Utrecht University\, entitled 'Adventures in Optimization'. It can be foll owed online.\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium (Aula) of the Academiegebouw\, Dompl ein 29 in Utrecht LOCATION:Auditorium (Aula) of the Academiegebouw\, Domplein 29 in Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on the Combinatorial\, Algorithmic and Probabilistic aspe cts of Partition Functions DTSTART:20250327T083000Z DTEND:20250328T153000Z UID:a7ec516e-1dac-462f-900f-3ecf8483bbd7 DESCRIPTION:The workshop on the Combinatorial\, Algorithmic and Probabilis tic aspects of Partition Functions\, takes place on Thursday 27 March and Friday 28 March in room L016 and the Forum of CWI. The organizers are Fere nc Bencs (CWI) and Guus Regts (UvA).\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Room L016 & Forum \, Science Park 123 LOCATION:CWI\, Room L016 & Forum\, Science Park 123 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Farewell Symposium for Leen Stougie DTSTART:20250403T080000Z DTEND:20250403T163000Z UID:bd0689ba-bf59-416d-bae3-5b764f22569c DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 3 April 2025\, CWI will host a symposium in honor of Leen Stougie's retirement. Leen has had a rich forty year history at CW I\, where he has impacted many researchers in the Netherlands and abroad.\ n\nLocation:\nTuring Zaal\, Congress Center\, Science Park 125 LOCATION:Turing Zaal\, Congress Center\, Science Park 125 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CWI Distinguished Lecture by Thomas Rothvoss DTSTART:20250514T140000Z DTEND:20250514T163000Z UID:e111d9dc-1bd5-4b73-bc2d-e608f16a24a5 DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 14 May\, Thomas Rothvoss (University of Washingto n) will give a CWI Distinguished lecture on "Integer programming from Lens tra to Kannan and Lovász and Beyond". This lecture is part of a one month sabbatical visit at CWI (1 May through 6 June)\, which was made possible with support from CWI's visiting researcher programme and the Networks & O ptimization group.\n\nLocation:\nTuring\, Congress Centre\, Science Park 1 25 LOCATION:Turing\, Congress Centre\, Science Park 125 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Estéban Gabory (N&O) DTSTART:20250521T134500Z DTEND:20250521T144500Z UID:d6239a30-e136-4b2c-aa95-700df343d8f0 DESCRIPTION:Variable strings for pan-genomes: matching\, comparison\, inde xing.\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelel aan 1105\, 1081 HV Amsterdam LOCATION:Auditorium\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105\, 1081 HV Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bootcamp: Interplay between machine learning and optimization DTSTART:20250901T085000Z DTEND:20250901T160000Z UID:8cb0de53-0cae-444a-a967-9d6c213e52ed DESCRIPTION:The Bootcamp marks the official start of the CWI research seme ster programme on learning enhanced optimization\, contributing to its ove rarching mission of advancing cutting-edge research in theoretical compute r science\, operations research and beyond.\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, seminar ro om L016\, Science park 123 LOCATION:CWI\, seminar room L016\, Science park 123 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD school: Machine learning and optimization DTSTART:20250902T072000Z DTEND:20250904T150000Z UID:244f8680-6afb-4b10-b4ca-b2d9cc189445 DESCRIPTION:This PhD school is part of the broader CWI research semester p rogramme on learning enhanced optimization\, contributing to its overarchi ng mission of advancing cutting-edge research in theoretical computer scie nce\, operations research and beyond.\n\nLocation:\nTuring Hall\, CWI\, Sc ience Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands. LOCATION:Turing Hall\, CWI\, Science Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Satellite workshop 1: Learning augmented algorithms DTSTART:20251007T071500Z DTEND:20251010T170000Z UID:3d81312d-76c7-48a6-8961-22763a0ce7db DESCRIPTION:This workshop is part of the broader CWI research semester pro gramme on learning enhanced optimization\, contributing to its overarching mission of advancing cutting-edge research in theoretical computer scienc e\, operations research and beyond.\n\nLocation:\nTuring Hall\, CWI\, Scie nce Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands. LOCATION:Turing Hall\, CWI\, Science Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Sophie Klumper (Networks and Optimization) DTSTART:20251023T120000Z DTEND:20251023T133000Z UID:5936a7bf-c024-4431-94d5-691ed171cb1e DESCRIPTION:The GAP and the gain: Improving the approximate mechanism desi gn frontier in constrained environments\n\nLocation:\nDe Aula\, Universite it van Amsterdam\, Singel 411 LOCATION:De Aula\, Universiteit van Amsterdam\, Singel 411 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Satellite workshop 2: Learned methods for operations research DTSTART:20251103T083000Z DTEND:20251106T113000Z UID:bc810b6e-57d3-4c1d-8e2e-25c881a7fdb3 DESCRIPTION:This workshop is part of the broader CWI research semester pro gramme on learning enhanced optimization\, contributing to its overarching mission of advancing cutting-edge research in theoretical computer scienc e\, operations research and beyond. In addition\, it is the final workshop of the OPTIMAL project optimization for and with machine learning.\n\nLoc ation:\nTuring Hall\, CWI\, Science Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands. LOCATION:Turing Hall\, CWI\, Science Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Danish Kashaev (Networks and Optimization) DTSTART:20260210T150000Z DTEND:20260210T163000Z UID:176f404f-0114-433c-8e5e-e190e488311b DESCRIPTION:Approximation via Duality in Offline\, Online and Strategic Se ttings\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar – Luis Felipe Vargas DTSTART:20260211T100000Z DTEND:20260211T110000Z UID:02dd1733-c230-4e56-bd74-f80d066805d5 DESCRIPTION:On the Automatability of Sum-of-Squares Proofs\n\nLocation:\nC WI\, room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar – Solon Pissis DTSTART:20260304T100000Z DTEND:20260304T110000Z UID:6b13437a-a91e-4266-9369-ed964032967e DESCRIPTION:Maximal Palindromes in MPC: Simple and Optimal\n\nLocation:\nC WI\, room L120 LOCATION:CWI\, room L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:N&O Seminar – Francesco Mascarin (Max Planck Institute for Mathe matics and Science) DTSTART:20260318T100000Z DTEND:20260318T110000Z UID:4fe9e8ed-5d0e-4b62-ae83-1eb8166a460e DESCRIPTION:Lissajous varieties and their applications\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhaseP Plenary Talks DTSTART:20260402T120000Z DTEND:20260402T140000Z UID:5f30bac9-86a5-46c2-bf2e-710901a10adf DESCRIPTION:Tom Bohman (Carnegie Mellon University) and Christina Goldschm idt (University of Oxford) will give public lectures as part of the PhaseP Problem-Solving Workshop within the PhaseCAP Research Semester Programme on 2 April 2026. You are cordially invited to attend these plenary talks. Attendance is free\, but registration is required.\n\nLocation:\nNikhef Co lloquium Room\, Science Park 105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Nikhef Colloquium Room\, Science Park 105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhaseC Plenary Talks DTSTART:20260417T120000Z DTEND:20260417T140000Z UID:eac0560c-553a-40ed-a8b8-331887b260c3 DESCRIPTION:On Friday 17 April 2026\, Penny Haxell (University of Waterloo ) and Rob Morris (IMPA) will give two public lectures as part of the final afternoon of the PhaseC Problem-Solving Workshop within the Research Seme ster Programme PhaseCAP. You are cordially invited to attend these plenary talks. Attendance is free\, but registration is required.\n\nLocation:\nN ikhef Colloquium Room/Auditorium\, Science Park 105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Nikhef Colloquium Room/Auditorium\, Science Park 105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhaseA Plenary Talks DTSTART:20260529T120000Z DTEND:20260529T140000Z UID:b886c365-e4b1-420f-aa9f-a0ff7ef47280 DESCRIPTION:On Friday 29 May 2026\, Leslie Goldberg (University of Oxford) and Amin Coja-Oghlan (TU Dortmund) will give two public lectures as part of the final afternoon of the PhaseA Problem-Solving Workshop within the Research Semester Programme PhaseCAP. You are cordially invited to attend these plenary talks. Attendance is free\, but registration is required.\n\ nLocation:\nNikhef Colloquium Room\, Science Park 105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Nikhef Colloquium Room\, Science Park 105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR