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                         3rd Columbia Optimization Day 
  
                           Monday, November 3, 2003 
  
                           9:00 AM, Schermerhorn 501 
  
  
                                 PROGRAM 
  
  
 9:00: 
         Opening Remarks - Donald Goldfarb 
  
         IEOR Department, Columbia University 
  
  
 9:15 - 10:00: 
         Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon University 
  
         The Vertex Separator Problem 
  
  
 10:10 - 10:55: 
         Ravi Kannan, Yale University 
  
         Sampling on the fly from massive data 
  
  
 11:05 - 11:50: 
         David Applegate, AT&T Research 
  
         Optimization of Demand Oblivious Routing 
  
  
         Lunch 
  
  
 2:00 - 2:35: 
         Baruch Schieber, IBM Research 
  
         Approximating the Throughput in Resource Allocation and 
         Real Time Scheduling 
  
  
 2:55 - 3:40: 
         James Orlin, MIT 
  
         The Complexity of Inverse and Partial Inverse Optimization 
 Problems 
  
  
         Coffee Break 
  
  
 4:00 - 4:45: 
         Arkadi Nemirovski, Israel Institute of Technology 
  
         A simple $O(1/t)$-converging method for extremely large-scale 
         convex-concave games and eigenvalue optimization 
  
  
 Please visit www.corc.ieor.columbia.edu/meetings/c3/c3.html for 
 registration 
 and location details. 
  
 See you all there! 
  
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