PGMODAYS 2025: PGMODAYS 2025
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, November 18th Wednesday, November 19th

Tuesday, November 18th

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08:30-09:00Coffee Break
10:50-11:20Coffee Break
11:20-12:50 Session 5A: Invited session: Green energy applications of optimization
11:20
Optimal electric vehicle charging with dynamic pricing, customer preferences and power peak reduction (abstract)
PRESENTER: Miguel F. Anjos
11:50
A Benders decomposition approach for the EV charging facility location-and-operation problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luis Rojo
12:20
Green Hydrogen Viability in the Transition to a Fully-Renewable Energy Grid (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5B: Invited session: New trends in Optimal Transport and Applications, Part I
Chair:
11:20
Particle Method for a Nonlinear Multimarginal Optimal Transport Problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Adrien Cances
11:50
Lipschitz continuity of diffusion transport maps from a control perspective (abstract)
12:20
Branched Optimal Transport and Fractal Measures in Type-I Superconductors (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5D: Invited session: Neural Network approximations and related techniques for high-dimensional PDEs and Control Problems, part I
11:20
A time-dependent symplectic network for non-convex path planning problems with linear and nonlinear dynamics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jerome Darbon
11:50
Extended mean field control: a global numerical solution via finite-dimensional approximation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marco Scaratti
12:20
Distributed games with jumps: An alpha-potential game approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xinyu Li
11:20-12:50 Session 5E: Neural networks
11:20
Exploiting Subgradient Sparsity in Max-Plus Neural Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Olivier Fercoq
11:50
Introducing ISCNNs: Input Smooth Convex Neural Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Qinyan Zhou
12:20
A Universal Uniform Approximation Theorem for Neural Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Olivier Bournez
11:20-12:50 Session 5F: Large scale optimization
11:20
Relaxed and Inertial Nonlinear Forward–Backward with Momentum (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cristian Vega
11:50
MadIPM: a GPU-accelerated solver for linear programming (abstract)
12:20
High-Resolution Inertial Dynamics with Time-Rescaled Gradients for Nonsmooth Convex Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Manh Hung Le
11:20-12:50 Session 5G: Distributionally robust optimization
Chair:
11:20
Generalization meets nonsmoothness in Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tam Le
11:50
Distributionally Robust Standard Quadratic Optimization with Wasserstein Ambiguity (abstract)
12:20
Distributionally Robust Optimization for Optimal Control problems with Pontryagin's Maximum Principle (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ange Valli
11:20-12:50 Session 5H: Electric vehicles and vehicle sharing
11:20
Modeling Aggregate Electric Vehicle Flexibility in Unit Commitment Problems with Generalized Polymatroids (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hélène Arvis
11:50
Design of an electric vehicle sharing system under demand uncertainty: a bi-objective risk-averse stochastic programming approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Céline Gicquel
12:20
Real-time pricing for station-based one-way vehicle sharing systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rose Sossou Edou
11:20-12:50 Session 5I: Decomposition methods
11:20
Operator Splitting for Large Scale Nonlinear Stochastic Optimal Control (abstract)
11:50
Computing Usage Values for Prospective Studies in Energy Systems Using Spatial Decomposition (abstract)
12:20
An Augmented Lagrangian Algorithm with inexact proximal method and its application to a Mean-Field Control problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Thibault Moquet
11:20-12:50 Session 5J: Stochastic Optimization and Applications
Chair:
11:20
On Multidimensional Disjunctive Inequalities for Chance-Constrained Stochastic Problems with Finite Support (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marius Roland
11:50
Integrating crew scheduling and cyclic crew rostering for rail freight with train delays (abstract)
PRESENTER: Héloïse Gachet
12:20
Optimization under Weakly-Concave Composite Structure: A Proximal-type Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yi Chu
11:20-12:50 Session 5K: Invited Session: Nonlinear Algebra and its Application
11:20
Lissajous varieties (abstract)
11:50
Computing the Congestion Phases of Dynamical Systems with Priorities and Application to Emergency Departments (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pascal Capetillo
12:20
Rational SOS certificates of any polynomial with integer coefficients (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chaoping Zhu
12:50-14:10Lunch Break
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session 8A: Invited session:Recent advances in length-min problems in Euclidean spaces
16:00
On Degree of a Branching Point in Branched Optimal Transport (aka Gilbert--Steiner Problem) (abstract)
16:30
Bollobás–Meir Conjecture for the TSP in the Unit Cube Holds Asymptotically (abstract)
17:00
Irregular Examples of Indecomposable Steiner trees with Infinite Number of Branching Points (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 8B: Invited session: Optimal Control and its Applications
16:00
On the problem of minimizing the epidemic final size for SIR model by social distancing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Anas Bouali
16:30
Optimisation des traitements microbiens : géométrie des trajectoires dans les systèmes Lotka–Volterra (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jeremy Rouot
17:00
Regularization of optimal control problems on stratified domains using additional controls (abstract)
PRESENTER: Terence Bayen
16:00-17:30 Session 8C: Invited session: Discrete Optimization and Energy I
16:00
A multi-stage stochastic integer programming model and branch-and-SDDP algorithm for industrial production planning under intermittent renewable energy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Céline Gicquel
16:30
Symmetry-breaking techniques in MILP and application to the Unit Commitment Problem (abstract)
17:00
Decomposition for handling storage in power generation expansion planning (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 8D: Invited session: Optimization on Non-linear and Metric spaces
16:00
A Newton-Kantorovich-type Theorem in Quasi-Metric Spaces (abstract)
16:30
State-Constrained Optimal Control on Wasserstein Spaces of Riemannian Manifolds (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ernesto Treumun
17:00
Optimality Conditions and Algorithms for Optimization on Nonlinear Metric Spaces (abstract)
PRESENTER: Qinyu Yan
16:00-17:30 Session 8E: Invited session: New trends in Optimal Transport and Applications, Part II
Chair:
16:00
On the Wasserstein Geodesic Principal Component Analysis of probability measures (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alice Le Brigant
16:30
On convergence rates of regularized unbalanced optimal transport: the discrete case (abstract)
PRESENTER: Louis Tocquec
17:00
Metric Extrapolation and Generalized Wasserstein Barycenter (abstract)
PRESENTER: Thomas Gallouët
16:00-18:00 Session 8F: Stochastic optimization and control - part I
16:00
A Saddle Point Algorithm for Stochastic Multi-Objective Optimization with Inequality Constraints (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zachary Jones
16:30
Bellman equations in extended optimal stochastic control (abstract)
PRESENTER: Teemu Pennanen
17:00
Continuity of Bellman functions in stochastic optimization and control (abstract)
PRESENTER: Teemu Pennanen
17:30
Geometry Decision Focused Scenario Generation for Contextual Two-Stage Stochastic Linear Programming (abstract)
16:00-18:00 Session 8G: Games and learning
16:00
Best-Response Learning in Budgeted $\alpha$-Fair Kelly Mechanisms (abstract)
16:30
Prospect Theoretic Models of Irrationality in Aggregative Games (abstract)
17:00
From Nash to Cournot-Nash via $\Gamma$-convergence (abstract)
17:30
Nash equilibrium of a non-atomic game with heterogeneous players sensitive to queueing time (abstract)
PRESENTER: Quentin Petit
16:00-18:00 Session 8H: Mean-field models and particle flows
16:00
Robust Mean Field Control: Stochastic Maximum Principle and Risk-averse Mean Field Games (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pierre Lavigne
16:30
Optimal Control and Stabilisation of Fokker-Planck and McKean-Vlasov Equations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lucas M. Moschen
17:00
Gibbs Gradient Descent: A Langevin Approach To Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Oussama Zekri
17:30
Flowing Datasets with Wasserstein over Wasserstein Gradient Flows (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 8I: Mixed Integer Linear Programming
16:00
Commodity Maritime Flow Determination (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicolas Busch
16:30
Optimization of Maintenance Scheduling and Task Clustering in Gas-Insulated Substations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wenbo Wu
17:00
A two-level healthcare districting problem : A mathematical programming approach (abstract)
16:00-18:00 Session 8J: Evolutionary algorithms and black-box optimization - part I
16:00
Speeding Up the NSGA-II via Dynamic Population Sizes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Martin S. Krejca
16:30
Speeding Up Hyper-Heuristics With Markov-Chain Operator Selection and the Only-Worsening Acceptance Operator (abstract)
PRESENTER: Adrien Fradin
17:00
Classification-Based Linear Surrogate Modeling of Constraints for AL-CMA-ES (abstract)
PRESENTER: Oskar Girardin
17:30
Evolutionary Algorithms Are Robust to Noise out of the Box (abstract)
PRESENTER: Denis Antipov
16:00-17:30 Session 8K: Invited session: Advances in the convergence analysis of gradient methods
16:00
Last-Iterate Complexity of SGD for Convex and Smooth Stochastic Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lucas Ketels
16:30
Bias-Optimal Bounds for SGD: A Computer-Aided Lyapunov Analysis (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daniel Cortild
17:00
Counter-examples in first-order optimization: a constructive approach and application to Heavy-Ball algorithm (abstract)
PRESENTER: Baptiste Goujaud
17:30-18:00 Session 9B: More on Optimal Control and its Applications
17:30
Thriving despite toxicity: in boom-and-bust environments, microbial pacifists often win even against optimal-control-theory-aided antagonists. (abstract)
17:30-18:00 Session 9E: More trends in Optimal Transport and Applications
Chair:
17:30
A Characterization of Law-Invariant Coherent Risk Measures Through Optimal Transport (abstract)
PRESENTER: Laurent Pfeiffer
17:30-18:00 Session 9F: Semidefinite optimization and nonlinear control of synchronous motors
Chair:
17:30
Convex Optimization Methods for Nonlinear Control of Synchronous Motors in Transportation Electrification (abstract)
Wednesday, November 19th

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08:30-09:10Coffee Break
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 11A: Invited session: Neural Network approximations and related techniques for high-dimensional PDEs and Control Problems, part II
10:30
Learning Value Functions with High-order Information (abstract)
11:00
Finite-Difference Least Square Method for Solving Hamilton-Jacobi Equations Using Neural Networks (abstract)
11:30
Separable Representations of Optimal Value Functions via Neural Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mario Sperl
10:30-12:00 Session 11B: Invited session: Quantum computing and combinatorial optimization
10:30
Sampled-Based Guided Quantum Walk: Non-variational quantum algorithm for combinatorial optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ugo Nzongani
11:00
Guaranteed performance in short-time quantum annealing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Arthur Braida
11:30
Average case analysis of Branch and Bound algorithms: Is there potential for quantum advantage? (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 11C: Invited session: Discrete Optimization and Energy II
10:30
Enhancing the Economic Performance and Resilience of Telecommunications Networks through Integrated Multi-Battery System Solutions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hadhbi Youssouf
11:00
Dominance Properties for Electricity Distribution Planning with Battery Cycling Considerations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Natalia Jorquera
11:30
An iterative deal approach to increase self-consumption for a high-voltage energy community (abstract)
PRESENTER: Baptiste Ferrato
10:30-12:00 Session 11D: Invited session: Beyond Euclidean Convexity: Methods and Algorithms I
10:30
Gradient Descent and Flows with General Costs (abstract)
11:00
Synthetic Nonnegative Cross-Curvature and Spaces of Measures (abstract)
11:30
Mirror and Preconditioned Gradient Descent in Wasserstein Space (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 11E: Invited session: Recent advances in Multi Objective Optimization: Theory meets Practice
10:30
Asymptotic behavior of penalty dynamics for constrained variational inequalities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Siqi Qu
11:00
Tikhonov Regularized Exterior Penalty Methods For Hierarchical Variational Inequalities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Meggie Marschner
11:30
Flow of Gas Mixtures in Networks: Modeling and Multi-Objective Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alena Ulke
12:00
Probabilistic Robustness for Compressor Controls in Transient Pipeline Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hendrik Wilka
10:30-12:00 Session 11F: Optimization and Geometrical considerations
10:30
Strong Total Cover and Mixed Dominating Set Problems: Polyhedra and Algorithms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luca Ferrarini
11:00
Topology Optimization with Local Perimeter Constraints and Non-Linear Filtering for Minimum Length and Overhang Control (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jose Torres
11:30
A Theoretical Framework for Grokking: Interpolation Followed by Riemannian Norm Minimisation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Etienne Boursier
10:30-12:00 Session 11G: Optimal control and biological models
10:30
Bang-Bang Light Control in Optogenetic Bioprocess Models: Optimal Protein Production in Yeast (abstract)
11:00
Optimal Control of the Coagulation-Fragmentation Equation (abstract)
11:30
Stability and Optimization of Perturbed Chemostat Systems (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 11H: Stochastic optimization and control - part II
10:30
Approximately optimal distributed controls for high-dimensional stochastic systems with pairwise interaction through controls (abstract)
11:00
SAA Consistency for Optimal Control Problems with Almost Sure State Constraints (abstract)
11:30
Optimal Control under Uncertainty with Joint Chance State Constraints: Almost-Everywhere Bounds, Variance Reduction, and Application to (Bi)linear Elliptic PDEs (abstract)
12:00
Probabilistic Groundwater Control (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 11I: Multilevel optimization
Chair:
10:30
A spatial branch-and-price-and-cut algorithm for the continuous network design problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: David Rey
11:00
A Bilevel Optimization Model to share Decarbonization Efforts between French Regions : some qualitative Results (abstract)
PRESENTER: Antoine Marques
11:30
Trilevel Optimization for Demand Response in Electric Vehicle Charging Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rita Safi
10:30-12:30 Session 11J: Energy Systems
10:30
Estimating Maintenance Cost of Offshore Electrical Substations (abstract)
11:00
Bridging classical optimization and reinforcement learning in power systems: a value-based approach (abstract)
11:30
Airports Energy Optimization with Optimal Control and AI (abstract)
12:00
Implementation of a Multi-year Generation and Transmission Expansion Planning Problem in an Industrial Context (abstract)
PRESENTER: Thomas Bittar
12:00-12:30 Session 12A: Kriging methods for PDEs
12:00
Optimal Linear Interpolation under Differential Information: application to prediction of perfect flows (abstract)
12:00-12:30 Session 12C: Lyapunov functions
12:00
A Parametric Optimization Approach To Comparison Functions (abstract)
12:00-12:30 Session 12F: Linear Matrix Inequalities
12:00
Solving Parametric Linear Matrix Inequalities and Convergence Analysis in Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Weijia Wang
12:30-14:00Lunch Break
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Session 14A: Invited session: Optimal geometric control
15:30
A COUNTEREXAMPLE TO SMOOTHNESS OF ENERGY-MINIMIZERS IN SUB-RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY (abstract)
16:00
Finite-Time Stabilization via Optimal Control Techniques (abstract)
PRESENTER: Weihao Weng
16:30
Control of Collision Orbits (abstract)
PRESENTER: Riccardo Daluiso
17:00
Chattering in Homogeneous Linearly Controlled Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicola Paddeu
15:30-17:00 Session 14B: Invited session: Beyond Euclidean Convexity: Methods and Algorithms II
15:30
Conditional Infimum, Hidden Convexity and One-Sided Linear Couplings (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michel De Lara
16:00
A Characterization of Capra-Convex Sets (abstract)
PRESENTER: Adrien Le Franc
16:30
One-Sided Linear Couplings with Application to Sparse Optimization (abstract)
15:30-17:00 Session 14C: Invited session: Dynamic approaches to saddle point problems
15:30
A Dynamical Approach to Solving Smooth Saddle Point Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zepeng Wang
16:00
Preconditioned Primal Dual Algorithms in Convex Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Huiyuan Guo
16:30
Preconditioned primal-dual dynamics in convex optimization: non-ergodic convergence rates (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cesare Molinari
15:30-17:30 Session 14D: Unit Commitment problems
15:30
QUBO for the Min-Up/Min-Down UCP: Penalty Tuning and Decomposition Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Enzo Soler
16:00
Enhanced Benders' Decomposition for Stochastic Unit Commitment Using Interval Variables (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mathis Azema
16:30
Modelling Dynamical Constraints and Maintenance within Aggregated Unit Commitment Problem using Mixed Integer Linear Programming (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hugo Thomas
17:00
An Efficient and Tight Model for Nuclear Power Plant Constraints in Flexible Operation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Francisco Labora
15:30-17:30 Session 14E: Non-convex continuous optimization
15:30
Delayed Feedback in Online Non-Convex Optimization: A Non-Stationary Approach with Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cristian Vega
16:00
Strongly Quasiconvex Functions: What We Know (so far) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sorin-Mihai Grad
16:30
Toward L0 solution path via L0 Bregman relaxations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mhamed Essafri
17:00
Optimization landscape of L0-Bregman relaxations (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 14F: Evolutionary algorithms and black-box optimization - part II
15:30
Improved Runtime Guarantees for the SPEA2 Multi-Objective Optimizer (abstract)
PRESENTER: Milan Stanković
16:00
Dynamic Algorithm Configuration: Challenges and Opportunities (abstract)
16:30
A Knowledge Management Open Science Approach for Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking (abstract)
17:00
Dynamic Algorithm Configuration for Next-Generation Optimization (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 14G: Practical OR problems
15:30
A technician routing and scheduling problem with a lexicographic objective (abstract)
PRESENTER: Elise Bangerter
16:00
Optimizing a Worldwide-Scale Shipper Transportation Planning in a Carmaker Inbound Supply Chain (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mathis Brichet
16:30
Integrating Revenue Management into the Supply Chain for New Vehicles’ Distribution at Renault Group (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicolas Corvol
17:00
MINimum CYcle bases with maximum INtersection in TEmporal GRaphs: ALgorithms and complexITY (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dimitri Watel
15:30-17:30 Session 14H: Optimization under uncertainty
15:30
Lot-sizing Problem Under Decision-Dependent Uncertainty: A Probing-Enhanced Stochastic Programming Approach (abstract)
16:00
Stochastic Revelation in Sequential Decision-Making with a Pharmaceutical Application (abstract)
PRESENTER: Morteza Davari
16:30
Learning Data-Driven Uncertainty Set Partitions for Robust and Adaptive Forecasting with Missing Data (abstract)
17:00
Optimal Operation of a Battery System Considering Uncertainties on Energy Prices: a Least-Square Monte Carlo Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Asja Alic
15:30-17:30 Session 14I: Time-varying optimization
15:30
A Sequential Bayesian Approach to Gaussian Process Quantile Regression for Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hugo Nicolas
16:00
No-Regret Gaussian Process Optimization of Time-Varying Functions (abstract)
16:30
Control-Based Design of Online Optimization Algorithms (abstract)
17:00
A kite-based generator for airborne wind energy: modelling and optimisation (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 14J: Machine Learning for Optimization
15:30
A Learning-Based Approach for Traffic State Reconstruction from Limited Data (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nail Baloul
16:00
Code Evolution Graphs: Understanding Large Language Model Driven Design of Algorithms (abstract)
16:30
Deep Active Learning-driven Acceleration of Smart Grids Security Assessment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alban Marie
17:00
Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Exact Combinatorial Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Paul Strang