PIMS-CORDS SFU Operations Research Seminar

Mathematics

Audience:	Researchers in the topic
Seminar series time:	Tuesday 22:30-23:30 in your time zone, UTC
Organizer:	Tamon Stephen*
	*contact for this listing

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Past talks

Your time			Speaker	Title
Sat	Oct 03	16:00	(11 talks)	2026 West Coast Optimization Meeting
Tue	Oct 13	22:30	Serhii Myroshnychenko	TBA
Tue	Nov 03	23:30	David Liñán Romero (UBC-O hosted)	TBA
Tue	Nov 17	23:30	Cedric Koh	TBA

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Your time			Speaker	Title
Tue	Apr 14	22:30	Temesgen Abraha and Tanmaya Karmarkar (UBC-O hosted)	Physics-Guided Diffusion Models for Production Forecasting with Limited Well Data; Computationally assisted mathematical results based on Tensor Optimization
Tue	Apr 07	22:30	Hongda Li (UBC-O hosted)	Quadratic Growth Gives Near Optimal Total Complexity for Inexact Accelerated Proximal Gradient Method
Tue	Mar 24	22:30	Amzi Jeffs (remote)	AI-Based Algorithms for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Ground Penetrating Radar Data
Tue	Mar 17	22:30	Jeremy Chiu	The Burden of Tuberculosis among Foreign-born Canadians - Estimates with Dynamic Models
Tue	Mar 03	23:30	Ahmet Alacaoglu	Towards Weaker Variance Assumptions for Stochastic Optimization: A Blast From the Past
Tue	Feb 24	23:30	Youssef Diouane (remote)	Direct-Search for Min-Max Derivative-Free Optimization
Fri	Feb 20	19:30	Fredrik Odegaard (room: WMC 4335, jointly hosted with Beedie)	Decoding Consumer Preferences Using Attention-Based Language Models
Tue	Jan 27	23:30	Pengcheng Xie (remote)	Model-Based Derivative-Free Optimization with Improved Approximation
Tue	Jan 20	23:30	Nicholas Richardson	Optimization and applications for unsupervised signal demixing
Tue	Dec 02	23:30	Yuan Zhou (remote)	All Cyclic Group Facets Inject
Tue	Nov 25	23:30	Yuriy Zinchenko	Can an infeasible MIP solve itself?
Fri	Nov 21	20:00	Mohammad Delasay (room: WMC 5302)	Delay Information Sharing in Two-sided Platforms
Tue	Nov 18	23:30	Peter Zhang (UBC-O hosted)	Robust Paths: Geometry and Computation
Tue	Oct 28	22:30	Daniela Lubke (remote)	Integrating Machine Scheduling and Personnel Allocation in a Large-Scale Analytical Services Facility via Column Generation
Sat	Oct 18	15:50	14 speakers	WCOM 2025 at UBC-Okanagan
Tue	Oct 07	22:30	Krisztina Vásárhelyi	Embedded Research Program in Healthcare Operations Research: An SFU/VCH Partnership
Fri	Aug 15	17:00	Ali Hassanzadeh (jointly hosted with Beedie's Technology and Operations Management Area)	From Fixtures to Fairness: Analytics-Driven Decision Making in Professional Sports
Tue	Jul 29	18:00	Clement Royer (UBC-O hosted, on-line only)	A derivative-free method for continuous submodular optimization
Thu	May 29	21:00	Anotida Madzvamuse (UBC-O hosted)	Using geometric bulk-surface PDEs for insilico modelling of single and collective cell migration
Thu	Apr 24	21:00	Sean Kafer (remote)	Solving 0/1 Linear Programs in Strongly Polynomial Time with Simplex
Thu	Mar 20	21:00	Jas Dhahan	Simulation modelling to inform group O negative red blood cell inventory management in British Columbia
Thu	Mar 13	21:00	Walaa Moursi (UBC-O hosted)	Chambolle-Pock algorithm revisited: splitting operator and its range with applications
Thu	Mar 06	22:00	Jessica Stockdale	Using Topological Features of Phylogenetic Trees to Inform Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Design
Thu	Feb 06	22:00	Mariana Resener	Optimization in Active Distribution Grids: Modelling, Uncertainty, and Applications
Thu	Jan 23	22:00	Jiajin Li	Unveiling Spurious Stationarity and Hardness Results for Bregman Proximal-Type Algorithms
Thu	Dec 12	22:00	Krishna Narayanan	Coping with Intractability: Parameterized Algorithms meets Linear Programming
Thu	Dec 05	22:00	Kevin Hare (UBC-O hosted)	Computational Progress on the Unfair 0-1 Polynomial Conjecture
Thu	Nov 28	22:00	Sandy Rutherford	Critical Care Planning for Pandemic Response
Thu	Nov 14	22:00	Betty Shea	Why Line-Search When You Can Plane-Search?
Thu	Nov 07	22:00	Nitya Mani (UBC-O hosted)	Tetrahedron intersecting families of hypergraphs
Thu	Oct 31	21:00	[Halloween]	TBA
Thu	Oct 24	21:00	Serhii Myroshnychenko	Centroid of a convex body can be rarely the centroid of its sections
Thu	Oct 17	21:00	Gabriel Jarry-Bolduc (UBC-O hosted)	The cosine measure relative to a subspace
Thu	Oct 03	21:00	Shawn Wang (UBC-O hosted)	On Bauschke-Bendit-Moursi modulus of averagedness
Sat	Sep 21	15:30	16 speakers	2024 West Coast Optimization Meeting
Wed	Aug 28	21:00	Ahmadreza Marandi (UBC-O hosted)	A Clustering-based uncertainty set for Robust Optimization
Thu	Aug 22	21:00	Curtis Bright	SAT and Lattice Reduction for Integer Factorization
Thu	Jun 20	21:30	Yohan Song	A Combinatorial Puzzle of Skew Shapes
Thu	May 09	21:00	Fatemeh Beik	A survey on preconditioning techniques for a class of block three-by-three linear systems
Thu	Apr 25	21:00	João Gouveia (UBC-O hosted)	Self-dual polyhedral cones and their slack matrices
Thu	Apr 18	21:00	Benny Wai	Data Science Initiatives in the Grocery Industry
Thu	Apr 04	21:00	Yiwen Chen (UBC-O hosted)	Q-fully quadratic modeling and its application in a random subspace derivative-free method
Thu	Mar 14	21:00	Charles Audet (UBC-O hosted)	Evolution of the Mads Algorithm by Developing Specific Features
Thu	Feb 29	22:00	Yves Lucet (UBC-O hosted)	Recent Results in Computational Convex Analysis
Thu	Jan 25	22:00	Eitan Levin (UBC-O hosted)	Any-dimensional Convex Sets
Thu	Jan 11	22:00	Warren Hare (UBC-O hosted)	Expected Decrease for Derivative-free Algorithms Using Random Subspaces
Thu	Nov 30	22:00	Frederik Kunstner	Searching for Optimal Per-Coordinate Step-sizes with Multidimensional Backtracking
Thu	Nov 16	22:00	Feyza Sahinyazan	Path to Energy Sovereignty: Clean and Affordable Solutions for Remote Communities
Thu	Nov 02	21:00	Julia Yan	Pricing Shared Rides
Thu	Oct 19	21:00	Sharan Vaswani	Exploiting Problem Structure for Efficient Optimization in Machine Learning
Thu	Oct 05	21:00	Heinz Bauschke (UBC-O hosted)	On the Composition of Two Linear Projections
Thu	Sep 21	21:00	Zhaosong Lu	First-order Methods for Bilevel Optimization
Thu	May 25	22:30	Isabelle Shankar (UBC-O hosted)	Central Curve in Semidefinite Programming
Thu	Apr 06	22:30	Marco Caoduro	On the Packing and Hitting Numbers of Axis-parallel Segments
Thu	Mar 23	22:30	Mona Imanpoor Yourdshahy	Effects of Usage-Based Auto Insurance: A Dynamic Mechanism-Design Approach
Thu	Mar 16	22:30	Gohram Baloch	Data-driven Approach to Optimal Ordering batching Problem in Warehouse Management
Fri	Mar 10	23:30	Jean-François Cordeau	The Park-and-loop Technician Routing Problem
Thu	Mar 09	23:30	[Special talk on Friday in Surrey]	[]
Thu	Mar 02	23:30	Sandy Rutherford	Simulation Modelling of the BC Critical Care System for Pandemic Response
Thu	Feb 23	23:30	[Reading break]	[]
Thu	Feb 16	23:30	Angela Morrison (UBCO-hosted)	On Combinatorial Algorithms and Circuit Augmentation for Pseudoflows
Thu	Feb 02	23:30	Dimitri Leemans	The Number of String C-groups of High Rank
Thu	Jan 26	23:30	Ben Adcock	Restarts Subject to Approximate Sharpness: a Parameter-free and Optimal Scheme for Accelerating First-order Methods
Thu	Jan 19	23:30	Tanmaya Karmarkar (UBC-O hosted)	Tensor Optimization and Applications
Thu	Jan 05	23:30	Hossein Piri	Individualized Dynamic Patient Monitoring Under Alarm Fatigue
Thu	Nov 17	23:30	Jing Lu	Case Studies in Data Science and Analytics from a UK Business School
Thu	Nov 10	22:30	Diego Cifuentes (remote)	Computing the Nearest Structured Rank Deficient Matrix
Thu	Oct 27	22:30	Nadia Lahrichi	Improving Radiotherapy Treatment Logistics
Thu	Oct 13	22:30	Tim Hoheisel	The Maximum Entropy on the Mean Method for Linear Inverse Problems (and beyond)
Thu	Sep 29	22:30	Imre Bárány	Cells in the Box and a Hyperplane

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