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Seminar by: Kartik Sivaramakrishnan, North Carolina State University
Tuesday May 6, 2008 at 2:00 PM — Tech Bldg Room M228
Topic: A parallel interior point decomposition algorithm for block-angular semidefinite programs
Speaker: Kartik Sivaramakrishnan, Asst. Professor
Abstract: Semidefinite programming is widely regarded as "linear programming for the 21st century" and has a variety of applications in science and engineering. Interior Point Methods (IPMs) are currently the most popular techniques for solving SDPs. However, SDPs with matrix dimension n > 5000, and number of equality constraints m > 10,000 cannot be solved by current primal-dual IPM implementations on serial workstations.
We propose a "two-stage decomposition algorithm" to improve the scalability of primal-dual IPMs in solving large scale SDPs. In the 1st stage, we exploit the sparsity and/or symmetry in the underlying SDP to preprocess it into an equivalent SDP in the "block-angular" form. In the 2nd stage, we solve the preprocessed SDP in an iterative fashion between a quadratic
master problem and decomposed and distributed subproblems (smaller SDPs) in a parallel and distributed computing environment. We report our computational experiences with the algorithm on the distributed "Henry2" cluster at NC State University. We also compare our algorithm with the OpenMP version of CSDP, that is a parallel primal-dual IPM implementation for SDP.
For more information, contact:
Gwen Hoffman
g-hoffman2@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-3576
Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
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'Dorn Lecture' Dr. Patricia Dehmer, Deputy Director for Science Programs US Dept of Energy
Tuesday May 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM — Tech L211
For more information, contact:
Peggy Adamson
p-adamson@northwestern.edu
1 847 491 3587
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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Design:Chicago
Tuesday May 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM — James L. Allen Center
Design:Chicago will host its' 2nd annual conference at the James L. Allen Center on May 6th 2008. The event is sponsored by Northwestern University's Segal Design Institute. The conference recognizes the strength of design in the Chicago area, which hosts many national and local design firms, as well as being home to 4 major institutes teaching design. Additionally the conference recognizes the depth of work being done locally and internationally being done by Chicago's architectural community.
The conference will take the format of short presentations supported by a panel discussion. Design:Chicago is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Event URL: http://designchicago.northwestern.edu
For more information, contact:
Walter Herbst
walter@hlb.com
847-467-3375
Segal Design Institute
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Seminar by: Barry Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tuesday May 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM — Tech Bldg Room M228
Topic: ROAR: Robust Operational Aircraft Routing
Speaker: Barry Smith
Abstract: Due to the complexity of the planning process, airlines generally do not fully account for crew scheduling, maintenance planning and operations while building their flight schedules. As a result, timetables are inefficient and sometimes infeasible with respect to these processes. We developed an intra-fleet swapper that generates aircraft routing solutions to better accommodate the needs of crew, maintenance and operations. These solutions can be further improved by swapping across fleets. We developed a fast origin-destination revenue management model to estimate the revenue impacts of capacity changes due to these inter-fleet swaps. The best set of swaps is found by solving a quadratic mixed integer program. The resulting solutions are more robust relative to crew, maintenance and operations as well as more profitable.
For more information, contact:
Gwen Hoffman
g-hoffman2@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-3576
Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
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Swinney: Dynamical Systems Invariant Curves as Barriers...
Tuesday May 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM — Tech M416
Edward L. Reiss Memorial Lectures
Title: Dynamical Systems Invariant Curves as Barriers to Transport in Oceanic Flows
Speaker: Professor Harry Swinney, University of Texas
For more information, contact:
Danielle Jackson
danielle-jackson@northwestern.edu
847-491-5586
McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Appli
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