Workshop Goals
The idea behind Texas Optimization Day is to create a forum for Texas optimizers to discuss research and educational developments in the field, to facilitate communication and collaborations between researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the state of Texas, and to eventually build a strong community that would promote fundamental and applied optimization research in the region.
One of the goals of this initial one-day meeting is to decide on the format, locations, and potential sources of funding for the Texas Optimization Day in the upcoming several years.
Organizers
- Sergiy Butenko (Texas A&M University)
- Christodoulos A. Floudas (Texas A&M University)
- Jiming Peng (University of Houston)
- Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos (Texas A&M University)
Parking Information
Schedule
Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
1002 George Bush Dr.
College Station, TX 77845
| 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast | Lobby |
| 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | Session 1 | Room 1011C |
| P.R. Kumar | Texas A&M University | |
| Jianer Chen | Texas A&M University | |
| Faruque Hasan | Texas A&M University | |
| Jay Rosenberger | University of Texas at Arlington | |
| Christodoulos A. Floudas | Texas A&M University | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Session 2 | Room 1011C |
| Natalia Hritonenko | Prairie View A&M University | |
| Yuri Yatsenko | Houston Baptist University | |
| Kiavash Kianfar | Texas A&M University | |
| Jonathan Bard | University of Texas at Austin | |
| Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos | Texas A&M University | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | Room 1011B |
| 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Session 3 | Room 1011C |
| Illya Hicks | Rice University | |
| J. Maurice Rojas | Texas A&M University | |
| Tiffani Williams | Texas A&M University | |
| Taewoo Lee | Rice University | |
| Andrew J. Schaefer | Rice University | |
| 2:00 – 2:15 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. | Session 4 | Room 1011C |
| Eli Olinick | Southern Methodist University | |
| Erick Moreno-Centeno | Texas A&M University | |
| Lewis Ntaimo | Texas A&M University | |
| Ming Zhao | University of Houston | |
| Jiming Peng | University of Houston | |
| 3:15 – 3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Session 5 | Room 1011C |
| Ding-zhu Du | University of Texas at Dallas | |
| Shaojie Tang | University of Texas at Dallas | |
| Sivakumar Rathinam | Texas A&M University | |
| Swaroop Darbha | Texas A&M University | |
| Sergiy Butenko | Texas A&M University | |
| 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Reception | Presidential Dining Room |