Guests & Lectures
The program aims at attracting the very best students from Austria and abroad. Vienna has already a strong reputation in Algorithms, Optimization and Operations Research and we expect a tough competition for the PhD positions in this program. The collaboration of important research institutions in the Vienna area – in addition to the collaboration of 3 faculties (Economics, Mathematics and Computer Science) within the University of Vienna is unique in its dimension and scope.
The lectures given by our guest professors are scheduled in the regular program/PhD curricula of the particpating institutions and are open to all students. This extends the teaching offer of the respective institutions and broadens their activities.
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VGSCO Group with Christian Blum (summer 2017)
VGSCO Group with Amir Beck (winter 2016/17)
VGSCO Group with Arkadi Nemirovski (summer 2018)
Student Group with David Williamson (summer 2017)
VGSCO Group with Jacek Gondzio (winter 2016/17)
VGSCO Group with Daniel Kuhn (summer 2018)
VGSCO Group with Kurt Anstreicher (winter 2016/17)
VGSCO Group with Luis Nunes Vicente (winter 2017/18)
VGSCO Group with Ruth Misener (summer 2017)
VGSCO Group with Claudia Sagastizabal (winter 2017/18)
Winter term 2018/2019
Petra Mutzel - Technische Universität Dortmund, Deutschland
November 5-16, 2018
Selected Topics in Combinatorial Optimization
Heinz Bauschke - The University of British Columbia, Canada
Dezember 10-20,2018
Topics in Fixed Point Theory and Monotone Operator
Summer term 2018
Daniel Kuhn - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
March 13-23, 2018
Distributionally Robust Optimization
Arkadi Nemirovski - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
May 23 - June 4, 2018
Statistical Inference via Convex Optimization
Alexander Shapiro - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
June 19-27, 2018
Computational Stochastic Optimzation
Winter term 2017/18
Luis Vicente - Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
November 27 - December 1, 2017
Derivative-Free Optimization: Basic Principles and State of the Art
Claudia Sagastizabal - Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brasil
January 8-19, 2018
Nonsmooth Optimzation and Variational Analysis
Summer term 2017
David Williamson - Cornell University, USA
June 19-30, 2017
Spectral Graph Theory and Algorithms
Ruth Misener - Imperial College London, UK
May 8-19, 2017
Numerical Optimization Algorithms
Christian Blum - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spain
March 6-17, 2017
Metaheuristics and Hybrid Methods for Combinatorial Optimization
Winter term 2016/17
Amir Beck, TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
October 17-21, 2016
Proximal-based Algorithms
Kurt Anstreicher, Iowa State University, USA
November 7-11, 2016
Convex Representations and Relaxations for Non-convex Quadratic Optimization
Jacek Gondzio, University of Edinburgh, UK
December 1-7, 2016
Interior Point Methods for Very Large Scale Optimization