Title: Extremal Cuts and Isoperimetry in Random Cubic Graphs Speaker: Prof. Gregory B. Sorkin Affiliation: Dept of Mathematics, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Location: LT139 Huxley... Read more »

Title: Chordal Completions - Semidefinite Programming and Minimum Completions Speaker: Dr Arvind Raghunathan Affiliation: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) Location: 217 Huxley Building Time: 14:00 - 15:00 Abstract. A graph... Read more »

Title: Largest Small n-Polygons: Numerical Results and Conjectured Optima Speaker: János D. Pintér Affiliation: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University Location: 218 Huxley Building Time: 14:00 - 15:00   Abstract. LSP(n), the... Read more »

The minimum bisection width of random cubic graphs is of interest because it is one of the simplest questions imaginable in extremal combinatorics, and also because the minimum bisection of... Read more »

Professor Miguel Anjos from the University of Edinburgh is giving a seminar on: Tight-and-Cheap Conic Relaxations for AC Optimal Power Flow and Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch   Abstract: The classical... Read more »

TITLE: Learn to Relax: Integrating Integer Linear Programming with Conflict-Driven Search   ABSTRACT: Pseudo-Boolean (PB) solvers optimize 0-1 integer linear programs by extending the conflict-driven learning paradigm from SAT solving.... Read more »

Title: Pessimistic Bilevel Optimization Pessimistic bilevel optimization problems, as optimistic ones, possess a structure involving three interrelated optimization problems. Moreover, their finite infima are only attained under strong conditions. We... Read more »

Title: Bayesian Optimization in Molecule Space: Challenges and Opportunities Speaker: Austin Tripp Affiliation: University of Cambridge Location: Huxley 315 Abstract. Rational design of experiments in chemistry is one of the... Read more »