Conference Program.


All sessions will be held at "Salon de Honor" located in USM main Building (Marked A in the map under Local Information). Lunches will take place at "Patio de los CaƱones" (The yard behind buiding F).


Sunday, March 17th:
19:00-20:00 Registration and welcome reception at Hotel San Martín.

Time Monday, March 18th Tuesday, March 19th Wednesday, March 20th
09h00-
09h30
Michele Conforti, Alberto Del Pia, Marco Di Summa, Yuri Faenza and Roland Grappe.
Reverse Chvátal-Gomory rank.
Bertrand Guenin and Leanne Stuive.
Single commodity-flow algorithms for lifts of graphic and co-graphic matroids.
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Fabrizio Grandoni, Stefano Leonardi and Andreas Wiese.
Constant Integrality Gap LP formulations of Unsplittable Flow on a Path.
09h30-
10h00
Thomas Rothvoss and Laura Sanità.
0/1 Polytopes with Quadratic Chvatal Rank.
Takasu Soma.
Fast Deterministic Algorithms for Matrix Completion Problems
Thomas Rothvoss.
A simpler proof for O(congestion + dilation) packet routing.
10h00-
10h30
Kent Andersen and Anders Jensen.
Intersection Cuts for Mixed Integer Conic Quadratic Sets.
Karen Aardal and Frederik von Heymann.
On the Structure of Reduced Kernel Lattice Bases.
David Applegate, Aaron Archer, Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Seungjoon Lee and K.K. Ramakrishnan.
Content placement via the exponential potential function method.
10h30-
11h00
Coffee break
11h00-
11h30
Hongbo Dong and Jeff Linderoth.
On Valid Inequalities for Quadratic Programming with Continuous Variables and Binary Indicators
Viswanath Nagarajan, Hadas Shachnai and Baruch Schieber.
The Euclidean k-Supplier Problem.
Alberto Caprara, Margarida Carvalho, Andrea Lodi and Gerhard Woeginger.
A complexity and approximability study of the bilevel knapsack problem.
11h30-
12h00
Diego Moran and Santanu Dey.
A Polynomial-time Algorithm to Check Closedness of Simple Second Order Mixed-integer Sets.
Michael Dinitz and Anupam Gupta.
Packing Interdiction and Partial Covering Problems.
Tim Nonner and Maxim Sviridenko.
An Efficient Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme for the Joint Replenishment Problem
12h00- 12h30
Vishnu Narayanan.
Facial Structure and Representation of Integer Hulls of Convex Sets.
Danny Chen, Jian Li, Hongyu Liang and Haitao Wang.
Matroid and Knapsack Center Problems.
Ruben Hoeksma and Marc Uetz.
Two Dimensional Optimal Mechanism Design for a Sequencing Problem.
12h30-
14h00
Lunch
14h00-
14h30
Benjamin Moseley, Kirk Pruhs and Cliff Stein.
The Complexity of Scheduling for p-norms of Flow and Stretch.
Flavia Bonomo, Gianpaolo Oriolo, Claudia Snels and Gautier Stauffer.
Minimum clique cover in claw-free perfect graphs and the weak Edmonds-Johnson property.
Andras Sebo.
Eight-Fifth Approximation for TSP Paths.
14h30-
15h00
Maxim Sviridenko and Andreas Wiese.
Approximating the Configuration-LP for Minimizing Weighted Sum of Completion Times on Unrelated Machines.
Attila Bernáth and Gyula Pap.
Blocking optimal arborescences.
Zachary Friggstad, Anupam Gupta and Mohit Singh.
An Improved Integrality Gap for Asymmetric TSP Paths.
15h00-
15h30
Ron Adany, Moran Feldman, Elad Haramaty, Rohit Khandekar, Baruch Schieber, Roy Schwartz, Hadas Shachnai and Tami Tamir.
All-or-Nothing Generalized Assignment with Application to Scheduling Advertising Campaigns.
Stephan Held and Daniel Rotter.
Shallow-Light Steiner Arborescences with Vertex Delays.
Neil Olver and Rico Zenklusen.
Chain-Constrained Spanning Trees.
15h30-
16h00
Coffee break
16h00-
16h30
Patrick Jaillet, José Soto and Rico Zenklusen.
Advances on Matroid Secretary Problems: Free Order Model and Laminar Case.
Amitabh Basu, Robert Hildebrand and Matthias Koeppe.
Equivariant Perturbation in Gomory and Johnson's Infinite Group Problem. II. The Unimodular Two-Dimensional Case
16h00:
Bus to the airport.
16h30-
17h00
Anupam Gupta and Viswanath Nagarajan.
A Stochastic Probing Problem with Applications.
Sanjeeb Dash, Oktay Gunluk and Diego Alejandro Moran Ramirez.
On some generalizations of the split closure.
 
17h00-
17h30
Anupam Gupta, Viswanath Nagarajan and Vijay Vazirani.
Thrifty Algorithms for Multistage Robust Optimization.
Michele Conforti, Gerard Cornuejols, Aris Daniilidis, Claude Lemarechal and Jerome Malick.
Cut-generating functions
 
18h00-
19h30
Poster Session with Cheese & Wine    
19h30
  Conference Dinner at "Restaurante Tierra de Fuego"