Wednesday, July 28th

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
Survey XIV: (Chair: Bill Pulleyblank)
9:00 - 9:50 Henry Wolkowicz: Semi-definite programming for discrete optimization
9:50 - 10:10 Coffee break
Survey XV: (Chair: Bill Pulleyblank)
10:10 - 11:00 Yves Crama: Optimization models in production planning
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break
Survey XVI: (Chair: Bill Pulleyblank)
11:20 - 12:10 Rainer Burkard: Assignment problems
 
12:10 - 2:30 Lunch break
Communications D: (Chair: Fred Glover)
2:30 - 2:45 Vladimir Deîneko: On permuted Demidenko matrices (with Gerhard J. Woeginger)
2:45 - 3:00 Jorge Riera-Ledesma: The capacitated traveling purchaser problem (with Gilbert Laporte and Juan-José Salazar-Gonzáles)
3:00 - 3:15 Andre Rohe: Computing good solutions for large-scale traveling salesman and matching problems
3:15 - 3:30 David Warme: Solving large instances of geometric Steiner tree problems (with Pawel Winter and M. Zachariasen)
3:30 - 3:45 Coffee break
Communications E: (Chair: Yves Crama)
3:45 - 4:00 Alper Atamtürk: Lifted flow pack facets of the single node fixed-harge flow polytope
4:00 - 4:15 Sharon Aviran: Vertex characterization of partition polytopes of point sets on the plane (with Nissan Lev-Tov, Shmuel Onn and Uriel Rothblum)
4:15 - 4:30 David J. Rader, Jr.: Complexity results for facets of the quadratic 0-1 knapsack polytope
4:30 - 5:00 Coffee break
 
Roundtable: (Chair: Jakob Krarup)
5:00 - 6:30 Perspectives and trends in Discrete Optimization:
 
6:30 - 7:30 Wine and cheese party