PGMODAYS 2019: PGMODAYS 2019
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, December 3rd Wednesday, December 4th

Tuesday, December 3rd

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08:30-09:00Coffee
09:00-09:20 Session I: Introduction

Foreword by Jean-Paul Chabard (EDF) and Pascal Massart (FMJH)

Location: Auditorium
09:20-10:20 Session L1: Plenary lecture
Location: Auditorium
09:20
Teaching self-driving cars to be responsible: A mathematical formalism of the duty of care (abstract)
10:20-10:50Coffee
10:50-11:50 Session L2: Plenary lecture
Location: Auditorium
10:50
Distributional reinforcement learning (abstract)
11:50-12:00 Session C1: PGMO PhD Prize Ceremony

Presentation of the 2019 Prize, by Marianne Akian (SMAI-MODE), Anne Auger (Prize Committee) and Céline Gicquel (ROADEF)

Location: Auditorium
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session L4: Plenary lectures
Location: Auditorium
14:00
Integer optimization and machine learning, some recent developments (abstract)
15:00
Dynamic Programming for IP (abstract)
16:00-16:30Coffee
16:35-17:05 Session L5: Lecture by recipient of the PhD Prize
Location: Auditorium
16:35
Combinatorial Aspects of the Unit Commitment Problem (abstract)
17:05-17:30 Session L6: Conference closure

Conference closure by Sandrine Charousset and Stéphane Gaubert

Location: Auditorium
Wednesday, December 4th

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08:30-09:00Coffee
09:00-10:30 Session 1A: Algebraic and geometric tools for optimisation and statistics

Invited session organized by Elias Tsigaridas

Location: Amphi 1
09:00
Solving sparse polynomial systems using Groebner bases (abstract)
09:30
Solving linear Diophantine systems through Polyhedral Omega and applications in optimization (abstract)
10:00
Combinatorial Matrix Theory in Multivariate Statistics: the Case of Structural Equation Models (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1B: Recent Advances in Optimization for Machine Learning, part I

Invited session organized by Émilie Chouzenoux and Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Location: Amphi 2
09:00
Model Consistency for Learning with Low-complexity Priors (abstract)
09:30
Matrix Completion on Graphs: Modeling Interactions (abstract)
10:00
Improving the convergence of Stochastically perturbed Nesterov's accelerated Forward-Backward (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1C: Telecommunications I
Location: A1.140
09:00
Routing and Slot Allocation in 5G Hard Slicing (abstract)
09:30
Routing in deterministic networks (abstract)
10:00
Extended formulations for the Virtual Network Functions Placement and Routing Problem (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1D: Applications: Transportation
Location: A1.134
09:00
Improving MCTS approaches for Vehicle Routing Problems (abstract)
09:30
A DSS based on hybrid metaheuristic for waste collection routing problem with time windows (abstract)
10:00
Delay propagation on a suburban railway network (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1E: Stochastic Optimal Control
Location: A1.133
09:00
Linear–Quadratic optimal control for a class of stochastic Volterra equations: solvability and approximation (abstract)
09:30
Optimal Probabilistic Control of the Vibrating String under Random Initial Conditions (abstract)
10:00
Representation formulas for limit values of long run stochastic optimal controls (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1F: Bilevel Programming and Applications, part I

Invited session organized by Luce Brotcorne and Miguel Anjos

Location: A1.128
09:00
Multiple Decision-Makers in a Collective Self-consumption context: Bilevel optimization (abstract)
09:30
Minimizing Energy and Link capacity Utilization in ISP Backbone Networks: Bi-level approach (abstract)
10:00
Random Allocations, Fairness and Implementability in Stackelberg Security Games (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1G: Optimization of energy
Location: A1.122
09:00
McKean Stochastic Optimal Control of an Energy Storage System to reduce demand variability (abstract)
09:30
Arbitrage with Power Factor Correction using Energy Storage (abstract)
10:00
Chance Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow with Sparse Polynomial Chaos Expansion (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 1H: Applications: Stochastic Optimization and Energy
Location: A1.139
09:00
Design of a charging infrastructure for electric vehicles under a stochastic driving range (abstract)
09:30
Stochastic Model for the Uncertainties in the Long-Term Prediction of Run-of-River Hydropower Generation (abstract)
10:00
Strategic behaviour of risk-averse agents under stochastic market clearing (abstract)
09:00-10:40 Session 1I: IRSDI review session, part I
Location: A1.116
09:00
Generating Specialized Biased Experts for Electricity and Pollution Forecasting using Online Mixture (abstract)
09:25
Privacy Preserving Synthetic Smart Meters Data (abstract)
09:50
Co-Clustering for multivariate functional data for the Analysis of Electric Power Consumption (abstract)
10:15
Signature-Based Disaggregation of Electricity Demand (abstract)
10:30-11:00Coffee
11:00-13:00 Session 2A: Polynomial optimization and applications

Invited session organized by Simone Naldi, Mohab Safey El Din and Victor Magron

Location: Amphi 1
11:00
Partial Recovery in the Graph Alignment Problem (abstract)
11:30
A moment approach for entropy solutions to scalar conservation laws (abstract)
12:00
Globally Optimal Solution to Inverse Kinematics of 7DOF Serial Manipulator (abstract)
12:30
The Impact of Quadratization in Convexification-Based Resolution of Polynomial Binary Optimization (abstract)
11:00-12:30 Session 2B: Recent Advances in Optimization for Machine Learning, part II

Invited session organized by Émilie Chouzenoux and Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Location: Amphi 2
11:00
An Inertial Newton Algorithm for Deep Learning with Convergence Guarantees (abstract)
11:30
Learning step sizes for unfolded sparse coding (abstract)
12:00
General Risk Measures for Robust Machine Learning (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 2C: Applications : Telecommunications, II
Location: A1.140
11:00
Modeling transmission link's degradation caused by weather phenomena - the special case of FSO networks (abstract)
11:30
Optimizing Battery Usage for a Telecommunications Company Participating in a Curtailing Market (abstract)
12:00
Sequential Learning in Resource Allocation Games as Path Planning Problems with Side-Observations (abstract)
12:30
Optimizing Network Investments and Designing of Offers for a Telecommunication Operator (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 2D: Global Optimization I
Location: A1.134
11:00
Expressiveness, Robustness and Stability of Landscape Features (abstract)
11:30
Unconstrained nonlinear relaxations in global optimization (abstract)
12:00
Exact Verification of Piecewise Affine Dynamical Systems (abstract)
12:30
HYBRIDIZING SIMULATED ANNEALING WITH RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS MODEL FOR GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS***CANCELLED**** (abstract)
13:00
L0-Regularized Huber Loss Function - ****CANCELLED**** (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 2F: Optimization of energy
Location: A1.133
11:00
Optimization of the power mix and the remuneration of the electric vehicles with VGI facilites (abstract)
11:30
Quantifying the value of flexibility: demand response versus storage (abstract)
12:00
Economical assessment of different usage of microgrid battery storage in the UK market context (abstract)
12:30
Optimal Design of a District Cooling System Design by Mixed Integer Linear Programming (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 2G: Decomposition methods in Stochastic Optimization
Location: A1.128
11:00
SMS++: a Structured Modelling System for Optimization (abstract)
11:30
Stochastic lot-sizing problem with remanufacturing: a dual dynamic decomposition approach (abstract)
12:00
A decomposition method by component for the optimization of maintenance scheduling (abstract)
12:30
Scenario and Stage Decompositions for Planning Energy Investment under Uncertainty ***Cancelled*** (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 2H: Robust Optimization
Location: A1.122
11:00
Anchor-Robust Solutions for the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (abstract)
11:30
Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization under Uncertainty with Multi-fidelity Approximations (abstract)
12:00
Online Computation with Untrusted Advice (abstract)
12:30
Bayesian Optimization Under Uncertainty for Chance Constrained Problems (abstract)
11:00-13:00 Session 2I: Recent Advances in Solving Large-Scale Optimal Power Flow Problems

Invited session organized by Julie Sliwak and Miguel Anjos

Location: A1.139
11:00
A Tight-and-Cheap Relaxation for the ACOPF Problem (abstract)
11:30
Improving Clique Decompositions of Semidefinite Relaxations for Optimal Power Flow Problems (abstract)
12:00
Solving Alternative Current Optimal Power Flow to Global Optimality with Quadratic Reformulation Using Semi-Definite Programming and Branch-and-Bound (abstract)
12:30
A Difference-of-Convex Approach for Optimal Power Flow Problems with Probability Constraints (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 3: IRSDI review session, part II
Location: A1.116
11:10
Improvement of condition-based maintenance for a guaranteed level of service on a fleet of equipment (abstract)
11:35
Design of optimal maintenance strategies using piecewise deterministic Markov processes (abstract)
12:00
Principal Component Analysis for a Bundle of Functional Time Series and its Application in Prediction (abstract)
12:25
Prediction of building epoch from unconstrained images using deep learning: an expert level? (abstract)
13:00-14:15Lunch
14:15-15:45 Session 5A: Shape Optimization and Applications part I

Invited session organized by Alex Ferrer. This session is devoted to new advances on shape optimization. The topics of the session range from theoretical aspects to numerical developments of industrial interest.

Location: Amphi 1
14:15
A consistent relaxation of optimal design problems for coupling shape and topological derivatives (abstract)
14:45
TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION IN BRITTLE FRACTURE MECHANICS USING LEVEL-SETS (abstract)
15:15
Topology optimization of support structures for thermo-mechanical constraints in powder bed additive manufacturing (abstract)
14:15-15:45 Session 5B: Stochastic Optimization and Machine Learning
Location: Amphi 2
14:15
Online Restart Strategies for SGD (abstract)
14:45
Bregman Proximal Methods Revisited for Solving Variational Inequalities with Singularities ***Cancelled*** (abstract)
15:15
An adaptive stochastic optimization algorithm for resource allocation (abstract)
14:15-15:45 Session 5C: The Advent of Prosumers: Challenges and Opportunities

Invited session organized by Miguel Anjos

Location: A1.140
14:15
Artificial Intelligence and optimal policies for prosumer integration (abstract)
14:45
Pleiad: A Python Framework to Optimize Residential Power Consumption (abstract)
15:15
Peer-to-peer Electricity Market Analysis: from Variational to Generalized Nash Equilibrium (abstract)
14:15-15:45 Session 5D: Graphs and Optimization
Location: A1.134
14:15
Spectral Bounds For Graph Partitioning Problems (abstract)
14:45
On the minimum $s-t$ cut problem with budget constraints (abstract)
15:15
New Results for the Flow Shop problem with Conflict Graph (abstract)
14:15-15:45 Session 5E: Optimal control
Location: A1.133
14:15
Tensor Decomposition for High-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations (abstract)
14:45
The logic of containing tumors (abstract)
14:15-15:45 Session 5F: Bilevel Programming and Applications in the Energy field

Invited session organized by Luce Brotcorne and Miguel Anjos

Location: A1.128
14:15
A Multi-Leader-Follower Game for Demand-Side Management (abstract)
14:45
The Rank Pricing Problem with Ties (abstract)
15:15
Bilevel optimization applied to strategic pricing in electricity markets and extension to markets with massive entry of renewable energies and distributed generation (abstract)
15:45
Strategic bidding in Price Coupled Regions - ****CANCELLED**** (abstract)
14:15-15:45 Session 5G: Probabilistic Constraints, Risk and Robust Optimization
Location: A1.122
14:15
On facing demand forecast uncertainties by means of Robust Optimization (abstract)
14:45
Constraint Generation for Risk Averse Two-Stage Stochastic Programs (abstract)
15:15
Optimal reserve sizing for frequency regulation (abstract)
14:15-15:45 Session 5H: Black-Box Optimization
Location: A1.116
14:15
Self-Adjusting Mutation Rates with Provably Optimal Success Rules (abstract)
14:45
Towards Dynamic Algorithm Selection (abstract)
15:15
An Improved Generic Bet-and-Run Strategy with Performance Prediction for Stochastic Local Search (abstract)
14:15-15:45 Session 5I: Machine Learning in Optimization and problem solving
Location: A1.139
14:15
Algorithmic configuration by learning and optimization (abstract)
14:45
Learning to Price: Structured Learning to scale up Column Generation (abstract)
15:15
Deep learning numerical methods for Hamilton Jacobi equations - ****CANCELLED**** (abstract)
15:45-16:15Coffee
16:15-17:45 Session 6A: Shape Optimization and Applications part II

Invited session organized by Alex Ferrer.

Location: Amphi 1
16:15
Null Space Gradient Flows for Constrained Optimization with Applications to Shape Optimization (abstract)
16:45
Coupled optimization of both structure and mechanical connections (location and number) (abstract)
17:15
Robust topology optimization of nanophotonic devices (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6B: Machine Learning and Numerical Methods
Location: Amphi 2
16:15
Sinkhorn Divergences for Unbalanced Optimal Transport (abstract)
16:45
Newton-Conjugate Gradient Methods with Complexity Guarantees (abstract)
17:15
Interior point methods for logistic regression (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6C: Hydraulic Power Optimization
Location: A1.140
16:15
An extended LP formulation for the water pump scheduling problem (abstract)
16:45
A Lagrangian Decomposition for Hydro Unit Commitment Problem With Two Reservoir (abstract)
17:15
Evaluation of the Impact of the Power Production Function Approximation on Hydropower Maintenance Scheduling***Cancelled*** (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6D: Global Optimization II
Location: A1.134
16:15
Bayesian Multi-objective Optimization with Noisy Evaluations using the Knowledge Gradient (abstract)
16:45
New Containers Scheduling Strategy based on a Multi-Criteria Decision Algorithm (abstract)
17:15
Bayesian Optimization in Reduced Eigenbases (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6E: Control, Games and Variational Inequalities
Location: A1.133
16:15
Optimal Resource Allocation in Micro-organisms: the Dynamics of Photoacclimation in Microalgae as a Case Study (Oracle Project)**Cancelled** (abstract)
16:45
Quasi-Variational Inequality problems over product sets and applications to GNEPs (abstract)
17:15
Solving Perfect Information Mean Payoff Zero-sum Stochastic Games by Variance Reduced Deflated Value Iteration (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6F: Bilevel Programming and Applications, part II

Invited session, organized by Luce Brotcorne and Miguel Anjos

Location: A1.128
16:15
There's No Free Lunch: On the Hardness of Choosing a Correct Big-M in Bilevel Optimization (abstract)
16:45
Near-Optimal Robust Bilevel Optimization (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6G: Sparse Optimization and Machine Learning
Location: A1.122
16:15
Handling correlated and repeated measurements with the smoothed Multivariate square-root Lasso (abstract)
16:45
The Geometry of Sparse Analysis Regularization (abstract)
17:15
Variational Formulations for the l0 Pseudonorm and Applications to Sparse Optimization (abstract)
16:15-17:45 Session 6H: Complementariy problems and Variational problems
Location: A1.139
16:15
Polyhedral Newton-Min Algorithms for Complementarity Problems (abstract)
16:45
A new strategy for solving nonlinear complementarity problems arising in thermodynamics of compositional multiphase mixtures (abstract)
17:15
Error estimate for TV denoising (abstract)
16:15-17:15 Session 6I: Mixed integer programming
Location: A1.116
16:15
A Graph-based Heuristic for Variable Selection in Mixed Integer Linear Programming (abstract)
16:45
Mixed Integer Optimization Using Piecewise Linear Function Fitting and JULIA-based library (abstract)
17:15-17:45 Session 7: Fuzzy function methods in optimization
Location: A1.116
17:15
Optimality of a multi-variable fuzzy function (abstract)