LACGA'04 Program

16-20 August, 2004. Engineering School, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile (Beauchef 850, Santiago, Chile)
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  Monday, 16th. Tuesday, 17th. Wednesday, 18th. Thursday, 19th. Friday, 20th.
08.30 Registration (Gorbea Auditorium)
09.00 LACGA'04 Opening Session (Gorbea Auditorium)
  Plenary Talks I
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Thomas Liebling
Plenary Talks III
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Jayme Szwarcfiter
Plenary Talks V
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Gerard Cornuéjols
Plenary Talks VII
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Denis Naddef
Plenary Talks IX
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Martín Matamala
09.30 Gerard Cornuéjols: "Issues in Integer Programming" Adrian Bondy: "Ten Beautiful Conjectures in Graph Theory" Sebastián Ceria: "Robust Optimization for Practical Portfolio Management" George Nemhauser: "Stochastic Integer Programming Polyhedra"  
10.30 Andrés Weintraub: "Combinatorial Problems Derived from Forest Spacial Problems" Jaime San Martín: "Ultrametric matrices, M-matrices and associated graphs" Jörg Rambau: "Where is the Elevator? Combinatorial Online Optimization in Practice" Roberto Cominetti: "On the convergence of MSA for traffic equilibrium" Marcos Kiwi: "Largest Planar Matchings in Random Bipartite Graphs"
11.00 Coffee-break Coffee-break Coffee-break Coffee-break Coffee-break
  Plenary Talks II
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Sebastián Ceria
Plenary Talks IV
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Abílio Lucena
Plenary Talks VI
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Francisco Barahona
Plenary Talks VIII
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair: Michele Conforti
Plenary Talks X
(Gorbea Auditorium)
Chair:  Adrian Bondy
11.30 Michele Conforti: "Bicolorings and K-colorings of matrices" Jayme Szwarcfiter: "A Huffman-like code with error detection capability" Rafael Epstein: "OR Successful Applications in Development Countries" Denis Naddef: "The Symmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope" Maria Chudnovsky: "The Structure of Claw-free Graphs"
12.15 Francisco Barahona: "Separation of partition inequalities and their role in network design" Yoshiharu Kohayakawa: "Advances in the Hypergraph Regularity Method" 12.00 Trip to Isla Negra Abílio Lucena: "Optimal Rectangular Partitions" Thomas Liebling: "A triangulation-based algorithm for contact detection between tridimensional non-spherical objects and its application to granular media simulation"
13.00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
  Contributed Works (Room MM1, First Floor) Contributed Works (Room MM2, Second Floor) Applied Presentations (Gorbea Auditorium) Contributed Works (Room MM1, First Floor) Contributed Works (Gorbea Auditorium) Contributed Works (Room MM1, First Floor) Contributed Works (Room MM2, Second Floor)
14.30 Graph Algorithms I Integer Programming I Applied Session I Computational Complexity I Heuristics and Applications I Graph Theory II Heuristics and Applications II
16.00 Coffee-break Coffee-break Coffee-break Coffee-break Coffee-break Coffee-break Coffee-break
16.30 Graph Theory I Integer Programming II Applied Session II Graph Algorithms II Combinatorics I Graph Theory III Heuristics and Applications III
  18.30 Cocktail (Centre for Mathematical Modeling, U. of Chile)   20.30 Official Dinner (Santiago Park Plaza Hotel, Ricardo Lyon 207) 18.15 LACGA'04 Closing Session (Gorbea Auditorium)