Preliminary Program subject to change
10C01 Advances in Optimization I
OverviewAdvances in Optimization
Primary SponsorComputers in Operations and Information Processing (10c)

Chair

Vipin Gopal
United Technologies Research Center
411 Silver Lane
M/S 129-15
Hartford, CT 06040
Phone Number: (860)610-7442
Fax Number: (860)610-7442
Email: GopalV@UTRC.utc.com

CoChair

Prasenjeet Ghosh
Research Scientist
ExxonMobil Process Research Laboratories
600 Billingsport Road
Paulsboro, NJ 08066
Phone Number: 856-2243074
Email: prasenjeeet.ghosh@exxonmobil.com
Tight Convex Underestimators for Arbitrary C2-Continuous Functions
Chrysanthos E. Gounaris and Christodoulos A. Floudas, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
A Lagrangean Based Branch-and-Cut Technique for Global Optimization of Minlp Problems with Decomposable Structures
Ramkumar Karuppiah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 and Ignacio E. Grossmann, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Global Solution of Bilevel Programs with Nonconvex Functions
Alexander Mitsos, Panayiotis Lemonidis and Paul I. Barton, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 66-363, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Interior-Point Decomposition Approaches for Parallel Solution of Large-Scale Nonlinear Parameter Estimation Problems
Carl D. Laird, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, Victor M. Zavala, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213 and Lorenz T. Biegler, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Room DH 4200, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Interior Point Solution of Integrated Plant and Control Design Problems with Embedded MPC
Rhoda Baker and Christopher L. E. Swartz, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L7, Canada
Degree-of-Freedom-Based Methods for Phasing Centrosymmetric Structures from X-Ray Diffraction Data
Alexander B. Smith and Nick Sahinidis, University of Illinois, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 600 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801

Computing and Systems Technology Division