PROGRAM
      Days: Tuesday, November 28th Wednesday, November 29th
Tuesday, November 28th
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08:30-09:00Welcome coffee
09:20-10:10 Session 2: Plenary 1: Philippe Drobinski
Location: Auditorium
| 09:20 | Integration of climate variability and climate change in renewable energy planning (abstract)  | 
10:10-10:20 Session 3: PGMO PhD Prize Ceremony: Pierre Fouilhoux (Jury), Térence Bayen (SMAI-MODE), Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu (ROADEF)
Location: Auditorium
10:50-11:20Coffee Break
11:20-12:50 Session 5A: Invited session: Hierarchical Optimization in Energy Systems, organized by Mathias Staudigl
Chair: 
Location: Amphi I
| 11:20 | A regularized variance-reduced modified extragradient method for stochastic hierarchical games (abstract) PRESENTER: Mathias Staudigl  | 
| 11:50 | Control Strategies for Transport Networks under Demand Uncertainty with extensions to Bilevel Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Thomas Schillinger  | 
| 12:20 | Advanced Optimization Techniques for Grid Design and Real-Time Operations in Power Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Alessandro Zocca  | 
11:20-12:50 Session 5B: Invited session: Algorithms in Generalized Convexity. Applications to Machine Learning and Sparse Optimization, part 1, organized by Michel De Lara
Chair: 
Location: Amphi II
| 11:20 | Algorithms in Generalized Convexity (abstract) PRESENTER: Michel De Lara  | 
| 11:50 | Mirror Descent Algorithm in Generalized Convexity (abstract) PRESENTER: Adrien Le Franc  | 
| 12:20 | Abstract Cutting Plane Method applied to Sparse Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Seta Rakotomandimby  | 
11:20-12:50 Session 5C: Black box optimization
Chair: 
Location: A1.116
| 11:20 | Per-Class Algorithm Selection for Black-Box Optimisation (abstract) PRESENTER: Koen van der Blom  | 
| 11:50 | Expected Runtime of the Compact Genetic Algorithm on the LeadingOnes Benchmark (abstract) PRESENTER: Marcel Chwialkowski  | 
| 12:20 | Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithms for Multi-Valued Decision Variables (abstract) PRESENTER: Martin S. Krejca  | 
11:20-12:50 Session 5D: "Fairness"
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Location: A1.122
| 11:20 | Proportional Fairness for Multi-Objective Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Minh Hieu Nguyen  | 
| 11:50 | Accommodating fairness in a shared-energy allocation problem with uncertainties (abstract) PRESENTER: Zoé Fornier  | 
| 12:20 | Optimal Allocation for a Fair Distribution of Green Energy in Microgrids (abstract) PRESENTER: Natalia Jorquera  | 
11:20-12:20 Session 5E: Efficient and Electric Mobility
Chair: 
Location: A1.128
| 11:20 | Decentralized Smart Charging of Large-Scale EV Fleets using Adaptive Multi-Agent Multi-Armed Bandits (abstract) PRESENTER: Sharyal Zafar  | 
| 11:50 | Electric Vehicle Coordinated Charging through Hierarchical Optimization models (abstract) PRESENTER: Luis Rojo González  | 
11:20-12:50 Session 5F: Nonlinear programming : nonconvexity and nonsmoothness
Chair: 
Location: A1.133
| 11:20 | Difference-of-Convex Approach to Chance-Constrained Optimal Power Flow modelling the DSO Power Modulation Lever for Distribution Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Ksenia Syrtseva  | 
| 11:50 | An implementable proximal-type method for computing critical points to minimization problems with a nonsmooth and nonconvex constraint (abstract) PRESENTER: Gregorio M. Sempere  | 
| 12:20 | Accelerating nonlinear programming with GPUs (abstract)  | 
11:20-12:20 Session 5G: Shape optimization, PDE, and beyond
Chair: 
Location: A1.134
| 11:20 | Physics-informed neural networks, PDE solving, hybrid modeling (abstract) PRESENTER: Nathan Doumèche  | 
| 11:50 | Accessibility Constraints in Shape Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Beniamin Bogosel  | 
11:20-12:50 Session 5H: Optimization and statistics I
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Location: A1.139
| 11:20 | An Empirical Case of Gaussian Processes Learning in High Dimension: the Likelihood versus Leave-One-Out Rivalry (abstract) PRESENTER: David Gaudrie  | 
| 11:50 | Optimal Trees and Multivariate Functional Data (abstract) PRESENTER: Cristina Molero-Río  | 
| 12:20 | Complexity analysis of regularization methods for implicitly constrained least squares (abstract) PRESENTER: Clément Royer  | 
11:20-12:50 Session 5I: Invited session: First Order Optimization: Acceleration and Convergence, organized by Émilie Chouzenoux and Antonin Chambolle
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Location: Auditorium
| 11:20 | Stochastic Primal Dual Hybrid Gradient Algorithm with Adaptive Step-Sizes (abstract) PRESENTER: Claire Delplancke  | 
| 11:50 | A new version of the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz property to better study the convergence of stochastic optimization algorithms in a non-convex framework (abstract) PRESENTER: Jean-Baptiste Fest  | 
| 12:20 | Provable non-accelerations of the heavy-ball method (abstract) PRESENTER: Aymeric Dieuleveut  | 
12:50-14:10Lunch Break
14:10-15:00 Session 6: Plenary 2: Michel Goemans
Location: Auditorium
| 14:10 | Submodular Functions on Modular Lattices (abstract)  | 
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session 8A: Decomposition strategies for large scale problems
Chair: 
Location: A1.134
| 16:00 | Computing Wasserstein Barycenter via operator splitting: the Method of Averaged Marginals (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Mimouni  | 
| 16:30 | Parallel approaches to large-scale stochastic energy system design problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Antonio Frangioni  | 
| 17:00 | Column Generation Approaches for the Satellites Constellation Design Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrea Bellè  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8B: Invited session - Algorithms in Generalized Convexity. Applications to Machine Learning and Sparse Optimization, part 2, organized by Michel De Lara
Chair: 
Location: Amphi II
| 16:00 | Learning Energy Networks with Generalized Fenchel-Young Losses (abstract) PRESENTER: Mathieu Blondel  | 
| 16:30 | Fast, Differentiable and Sparse Top-k: a Convex Analysis Perspective (abstract) PRESENTER: Michael Sander  | 
| 17:00 | Gradient descent with a general cost (abstract) PRESENTER: Flavien Léger  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8C: Invited session: Quantum computing and combinatorial optimisation, organized by Andrea Simonetto
Chair: 
Location: Auditorium
| 16:00 | Optimizing Variational Circuits for Higher-Order Binary Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrea Simonetto  | 
| 16:30 | Classic-inspired quantum generation scheme for the parallel sequencing problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Thibaud Ardant  | 
| 17:00 | Quantum Contextual Optimal Transport (abstract) PRESENTER: Nicola Mariella  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8D: Evolutionary algorithms
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Location: A1.116
| 16:00 | Evolutionary Algorithm Outperforms MILP Solver on the Double-Floor Single-Row Facility Layout Problem  (abstract) PRESENTER: Junqi Liu  | 
| 16:30 | Wasserstein Barycenter-based Evolutionary Algorithm for the optimization of sets of points (abstract) PRESENTER: Babacar Sow  | 
| 17:00 | Runtime Analyses of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms in the Presence of Noise (abstract) PRESENTER: Benjamin Doerr  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8E: Logistics
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Location: A1.139
| 16:00 | Renault's Forward Logistic Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Mathis Brichet  | 
| 16:30 | A Branch-and-Cut algorithm for the Balanced Traveling Salesman Problem (abstract)  | 
| 17:00 | Pickup and Delivery Problem with Cooperative Robots (abstract) PRESENTER: Chi Nguyen  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8F: Large scale optimization
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Location: Amphi I
| 16:00 | Monitoring the Convergence Speed of PDHG to Find Better Primal and Dual Step Sizes (abstract)  | 
| 16:30 | A Speed Restart Scheme for a Dynamics with Hessian-Driven Damping (abstract) PRESENTER: Juan Peypouquet  | 
| 17:00 | The Smoothed Duality Gap as a Stopping Criterion (abstract) PRESENTER: Iyad Walwil  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8G: Pricing strategies
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Location: A1.122
| 16:00 | Optimal Carbon Pricing Based on Dynamical Climate Model (abstract) PRESENTER: Thomas Mongaillard  | 
| 16:30 | Optimal Price Menu Design of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (abstract) PRESENTER: Alix Dupont  | 
| 17:00 | Pricing strategy for dual-channel retailing using a stochastic attraction-demand model (abstract) PRESENTER: Minh Tam Tran  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8H: Stackelberg games
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Location: A1.133
| 16:00 | Optimal location of charging station: a Single-Leader-Multi-Follower approach with cardinality constraints (abstract) PRESENTER: Aussel Didier  | 
| 16:30 | Learning the Follower's Objective Function in Sequential Bilevel Games (abstract) PRESENTER: Martin Schmidt  | 
| 17:00 | CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SOLUTIONS OF  SINGLE-LEADER-MULTI-FOLLOWERS GAMES WITH  COMMON CONSTRAINTS (abstract) PRESENTER: Gemayqzel Bouza Allende  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8I: Invited session : Optimization in car-sharing systems : Probabilistic Models and Analysis, organized by Hanene Mohamed
Chair: 
Location: A1.128
| 16:00 | Mean Field Analysis of an Incentive Policy on the Regulation of Free-Floating Car-Sharing Systems (abstract) PRESENTER: Bianca Marin Moreno  | 
| 16:30 | A Model for Dimensioning Ressources in a Car-Sharing System with Booking in Advance and Cancellation (abstract) PRESENTER: Christine Fricker  | 
| 17:00 | Large Scale Analysis of a Stochastic Model for Free-Floating Car-Sharing (abstract) PRESENTER: Alessia Rigonat  | 
16:00-17:30 Session 8J: Graphs and Scheduling
Chair: 
Location: A1.140
| 16:00 | Lot Sizing, Job Scheduling and Energy Management (abstract)  | 
| 16:30 | Minimizing total completion time and makespan for a multi-scenario bi-criteria parallel machine scheduling problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Xiechen Zhang  | 
| 17:00 | The No-Meet Matroid (abstract) PRESENTER: Walid Ben-Ameur  | 
Wednesday, November 29th
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08:30-09:00Welcome coffee
09:10-10:00 Session 9: Plenary 3: Laura Palagi
Location: Auditorium
| 09:10 | Ease-controlled Random Reshuffling Gradient Algorithms for nonconvex finite sum optimization (abstract)  | 
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 10A: Invited session: Mean field games and control, part 1, organized by Guilherme Mazanti and Laurent Pfeiffer
Chair: 
Location: Auditorium
| 10:30 | Mean-field games among teams (abstract)  ![]() PRESENTER: Aditya Mahajan  | 
| 11:00 | Existence and Lipschitz regularity of the trajectories minimizing the total variation in a congested setting (abstract) PRESENTER: Annette Dumas  | 
| 11:30 | A Mean Field Game Model for Renewable Investment under Long-Term Uncertainty and Risk Aversion (abstract) PRESENTER: Celia Escribe  | 
10:30-12:30 Session 10B: Stochastic optimization
Chair: 
Location: A1.140
| 10:30 | An entropy penalized approach for stochastic optimal control problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Thibaut Bourdais  | 
| 11:00 | A control problem with random state constraints in probabilistic and almost-sure form (abstract) PRESENTER: Rene Henrion  | 
| 11:30 | Improving stochastic control by ignoring randomness (abstract) PRESENTER: Andy Philpott  | 
| 12:00 | Duality of upper bounds in stochastic dynamic programming (abstract) PRESENTER: Vincent Leclere  | 
10:30-12:30 Session 10C: Machine learning-based methods in combinatorial optimization
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Location: A1.116
| 10:30 | Decision-Aware Learning with REINFORCE enables new Architectures and Applications (abstract) PRESENTER: Léo Baty  | 
| 11:00 | Hyperbolic deep reinforcement learning for repeated exact combinatorial optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Paul Strang  | 
| 11:30 | A Machine Learning based Branch-Cut-and-Benders for Dock Assignment and Truck Scheduling Problem in Cross-Docks (abstract) PRESENTER: Rahimeh Neamatian Monemi  | 
| 12:00 | Neural Benders Decomposition for Mixed Integer Programming (abstract) PRESENTER: Shahin Gelareh  | 
10:30-12:30 Session 10D: Invited session: Nonlinear Algebra and its Application, organized by Matías Bender and Elias Tsigaridas
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Location: A1.133
| 10:30 | Topology of spatiotemporal trajectories (abstract)  | 
| 11:00 | Semidefinite Games (abstract) PRESENTER: Constantin Ickstadt  | 
| 11:30 | Minimal Sparsity for Scalable Moment-SOS Relaxations of the AC-OPF Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Adrien Le Franc  | 
10:30-12:00 Session 10E: Invited session: Robust Optimization and Applications, organized by Julien Grand-Clément
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Location: Amphi II
| 10:30 | Differential Privacy via Distributionally Robust Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Aras Selvi  | 
| 11:00 | Randomized Assortment Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Zhengchao Wang  | 
| 11:30 | Decarbonizing OCP (abstract) PRESENTER: Vassilis Digalakis Jr  | 
10:30-12:00 Session 10F: Invited session: Optimization in telecom networks, part 1, organized by Eric Gourdin, David Coudert, Sébastien Martin and Dritan Nace
Chair: 
Location: Amphi I
| 10:30 | Integer linear formulations for the maximum flow blocker problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Isma Bentoumi  | 
| 11:00 | The controller placement problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Alban Zyle  | 
| 11:30 | Latency-Sensitive Service Chaining with Security Isolation Constraints (abstract) PRESENTER: Yannick Carlinet  | 
10:30-12:30 Session 10G: Numerical methods for optimal control and games
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Location: A1.134
| 10:30 | Neural networks for deterministic two-player games (abstract) PRESENTER: Olivier Bokanowski  | 
| 11:00 | Semiconcave Dual Dynamic Programming and Its Application to N-body Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Shanqing Liu  | 
| 11:30 | Convergence of a Two-Player Version of Macqueen's k-means Algorithm (abstract)  | 
| 12:00 | Maximum of Reachable Values of Discrete-Time Systems (abstract)  | 
10:30-12:30 Session 10H: Optimization and statistics
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Location: A1.122
| 10:30 | Statistical Empirical Risk Minimization: The Pursuit of Generalization (abstract)  | 
| 11:00 | Outlier Detection in Regression: Conic Quadratic Formulations (abstract) PRESENTER: Jose Neto  | 
| 11:30 | Variational inference with λ-exponential families (abstract) PRESENTER: Thomas Guilmeau  | 
| 12:00 | Using regression splines to approximate mixed integer nonlinear optimization models (abstract) PRESENTER: Vanesa Guerrero  | 
10:30-12:30 Session 10I: Energy transition and decarbonization
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Location: A1.128
| 10:30 | A Planning Game for Global Decarbonization Strategies (abstract) PRESENTER: Anthony Couthures  | 
| 11:00 | A Two-Timescale Decision-Hazard-Decision Formulation for Storage Usage Values Calculation in Energy Systems Under Uncertainty (abstract) PRESENTER: Camila Martinez Parra  | 
| 11:30 | Coordinated cross-border capacity calculation through the FARAO open-source toolbox (abstract) PRESENTER: Alexandre Marié  | 
| 12:00 | A Mean-Field Game Model for Energy Transition (abstract) PRESENTER: Quentin Petit  | 
10:30-12:30 Session 10J: Optimization under sparsity constraints
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Location: A1.139
| 10:30 | The l0 Bregman Relaxation (abstract) PRESENTER: M'Hamed Essafri  | 
| 11:00 | Safe Peeling for L0-Penalized Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Théo Guyard  | 
| 11:30 | Screen & Relax for Sparse Support Identification (abstract) PRESENTER: Théo Guyard  | 
| 12:00 | Improving Sparse Penalties with Nonconvexity and Coefficient Clustering (abstract) PRESENTER: Anne Gagneux  | 
12:00-12:30 Session 11A: Mean field games and control
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Location: Auditorium
| 12:00 | On the Optimal Rate for the Convergence Problem in Mean-Field Control (abstract) PRESENTER: Samuel Daudin  | 
12:00-12:30 Session 11B: Robust optimization and applications
Chair: 
Location: Amphi I
| 12:00 | An Extension of the Bertsimas & Sim Result for Discrete, Linear, and Gamma-Robust Min-Max Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Ivana Ljubic  | 
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 13A: Invited session: Mean field games and control, part 2, organized by Guilherme Mazanti and Laurent Pfeiffer
Chair: 
Location: Auditorium
| 15:30 | Approximation of deterministic mean field games (abstract) PRESENTER: Francisco José Silva Alvarez  | 
| 16:00 | Hybrid games in route planning for sailing vessels and their mean field limit (abstract)  | 
| 16:30 | Kolmogorov equations on spaces of measures associated to nonlinear filtering processes (abstract)  | 
15:30-17:00 Session 13B: Invited session: Optimal transport and applications, organized by Luca Nenna
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Location: Amphi II
| 15:30 | An ODE characterisation of Entropic Multi-Marginal Optimal Transport (abstract) PRESENTER: Luca Nenna  | 
| 16:00 | Convergence rate of entropy-regularized multi-marginal optimal transport costs (abstract) PRESENTER: Paul Pegon  | 
| 16:30 | Displacement smoothness of entropic optimal transport and applications (abstract) PRESENTER: Guillaume Carlier  | 
15:30-17:00 Session 13C: Genetic optimization and discrepancy
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Location: A1.116
| 15:30 | Optimal sets for the L-infinity star discrepancy (abstract) PRESENTER: François Clément  | 
| 16:00 | An Improved Tie-Breaking Rule for the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (abstract) PRESENTER: Tudor Ivan  | 
| 16:30 | Fast Biased Random Key Genetic Algorithm in Target Set Selection (abstract) PRESENTER: Hoang Nguyen Vu  | 
15:30-17:30 Session 13D: Invited session: New roads to optimality, organized by Sorin-Mihai Grad
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Location: A1.139
| 15:30 | Nonlinear Sharp Minimum and the Stability of a Local Minimum on Metric Spaces (abstract) PRESENTER: Michel Thera  | 
| 16:00 | Minimizing a Separable Sum Coupled by a Difference of Functions and Linear Constraints (abstract)  | 
| 16:30 | First order inertial optimization algorithms with threshold effects associated with dry friction (abstract) PRESENTER: Manh Hung Le  | 
| 17:00 | Beyond the Fermat Optimality Rules (abstract) PRESENTER: Sorin-Mihai Grad  | 
15:30-16:30 Session 13E: Invited session: Optimization in telecom networks, part 2, organized by Eric Gourdin, David Coudert, Sébastien Martin and Dritan Nace
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Location: Amphi I
| 15:30 | The Virtual Network Function Reconfiguration Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Kristina Kumbria  | 
| 16:00 | Learning Sparsified Networks in Column Generation: Applications to Multi-Commodity Network Flow Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Alexandre Schulz  | 
15:30-16:30 Session 13F: Optimal control and epidemiology
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Location: A1.122
| 15:30 | Optimal Vaccination Strategies for Metropolitan Areas (abstract) PRESENTER: Lucas Moschen  | 
| 16:00 | Optimal Control for General Impulsive VS-EIAR Epidemics Models with Application to COVID-19 (abstract) PRESENTER: Mohammed Elghandouri  | 
15:30-17:30 Session 13G: Conic Optimization
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Location: A1.133
| 15:30 | Semidefinite programming by projective-cutting-planes (abstract)  | 
| 16:00 | QPLayer: efficient differentiation of convex quadratic optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Antoine Bambade  | 
| 16:30 | A new interior point solver for HiGHS (abstract) PRESENTER: Julian Hall  | 
| 17:00 | Interior point methods in optimal control (abstract)  | 
15:30-17:30 Session 13H: Real world impact of optimization
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Location: A1.128
| 15:30 | Fisher Market Model based Resource Allocation for 5G Network Slicing (abstract) PRESENTER: Mandar Datar  | 
| 16:00 | Exact Algorithm for Decoupled Vehicle-to-Grid Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Jonathan Hornewall  | 
| 16:30 | Multidimensional analysis for the techno-economic study of the CSP plant (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Lasluisa  | 
| 17:00 | Moving Horizon Estimation for Anesthesia dynamics (abstract) PRESENTER: Kaouther Moussa  | 
