PGMODAYS 2026: PGMODAYS 2026
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, November 17th Wednesday, November 18th

Tuesday, November 17th

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09:20-10:10 Session 2: Plenary 1 : Lars Grüne
09:20
Performance of Deterministic and Stochastic Model Predictive Control (abstract)
10:50-11:20 Session 4: PhD Prize Lecture 1 : Luca Brunod Indrigo
10:50
Anchor Robustness and Resource Leveling in Project Scheduling (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5A: Invited session: Nonconvex landscapes and algorithms in data science
11:20
Trust-region methods for Burer-Monteiro factorizations of phase retrieval problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Clément Royer
11:50
Benign Landscape Of Nonconvex Low-dimensional Relaxation Of Orthogonal Synchronization With Group-symmetric Dual Certificates (abstract)
12:20
Attention based mechanisms in clustering and PCA (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5B: Invited session: Recent Advances in Mean Field Games and Mean Field Control
11:20
Regularization by Common Noise for Mean Field Games and Mean Field Control (abstract)
11:50
On the notion of Wasserstein BSDE and its applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mattia Martini
12:20
Learning controls in mean games and mean field control problems (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5C: IS: Modelling supply chains in Mathematical Programming: flow and economics
11:20
A mathematical programming formulation for generalized supply chains (abstract)
PRESENTER: Justin Capgras
11:50
A mathematical programming formulation for generalized supply chains - Industrial and Economic mechanisms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Haitam Chakori
12:20
An Automated Market Maker for Energy Sharing: From Theory to Verifiable Settlement (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michele Fabi
11:20-12:50 Session 5D: Invited session: Black-box Optimization
11:20
Optimization-Oriented Surrogate Frameworks for Wind Farm Layout Optimization (abstract)
11:50
Blackbox Optimization for Active Distribution Networks Reconfiguration under Uncertainty (abstract)
12:20
Black-box adversarial attacks on SPD Networks (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5E: Handling Large scale Stochastic Programs
11:20
Matrix-based Scenario Aggregation for Two-Stage Stochastic Programs: From Partitions to Subspaces (abstract)
11:50
Stronger Decomposition Cuts for Stochastic Unit Commitment Using Interval Variables (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mathis Azema
12:20
Decomposition of Convex Large Scale Stochastic Optimization Problems (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5F: IS : Recent Advances in Systematic and Computer-Aided Methods in Optimization I
11:20
Computer-Aided Proofs in First-Order Optimization, with Applications to Error Feedback (abstract)
11:50
Limited-Memory First-Order Methods and H-Duality (abstract)
12:20
Can Acceleration in Gradient-Norm Minimization Be Anytime? Sharp Last-Iterate Limits in Smooth Convex Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pierre Vernimmen
11:20-12:50 Session 5G: Invited Session : Optimal trading in intraday electricity markets
11:20
Opportunities in Algorithmic Trading for Battery Energy Storage in Short-Term Electricity Markets (abstract)
11:50
Statistics and optimization in intraday electricity markets (abstract)
12:20
Convex optimization in intraday electricity markets (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5H: The moment hierachy and SDP
11:20
Spectral-Gauge Cuts for Semidefinite Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Antonio Sasaki
11:50
The Moment-SOS Hierarchy: Applications to Reaction-Diffusion PDEs and Navier--Stokes Equations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Charlie Lebarbé
12:20
Some curiosities about the convergence of the Moment-SOS hierarchy (abstract)
11:20-12:50 Session 5I: Invited Session:Neural Network approximations for high-dimensional PDEs Problems
11:20
Solving Hamilton-Jacobi equations by residual minimization of monotone finite-difference discretizations (abstract)
11:50
When does residual minimization solve a differential equation? (abstract)
PRESENTER: Richard Tsai
12:20
Global Convergence of Second-Order Methods for Physics-Informed Neural Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Konstantin Riedl
11:20-12:50 Session 5J: Invited session : Quantum Applications in Operations Research part 1
11:20
A mixer for minimization of function with constraint (abstract)
PRESENTER: Philippe Lacomme
11:50
An alternative exploration of the solutions space for the Travelling Salesman Problem leveraging a warm-start and a preserving mixer to extend a recent proposal (abstract)
12:20
Quantum Approaches to Multi-Objective Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alexey Bochkarev
11:20-12:50 Session 5K: Decision Focused Learning
11:20
Decision-Focused Policies for Microgrid Energy Management (abstract)
11:50
Integrated Model for Optimization and Machine Learning: the Case of Predictive Maintenance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marie Bouilloud
12:20
Decision-Focused Learning for Dynamic Inventory Replenishment under Production Constraints (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicolas Corvol
14:10-15:00 Session 6: Plenary 2 by Bissan Ghaddar
14:10
Sparse Relaxations and Learned Structure for Large-Scale Polynomial Optimization (abstract)
15:00-15:30 Session 7: Phd Prize Lecture 2 : Romain Cosson
15:00
Collective Algorithms for Exploration and Decision-Making (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 8A: Mean Field Games
16:00
Survival of Dominated Strategies under Standard No-Regret Dynamics (abstract)
16:30
A conditional gradient approach to regularized mean field optimization problems (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 8B: Invited session: Linearly Controlled Systems
16:00
Approximate Controllability of Volume-preserving Diffeomorphisms (abstract)
16:30
Metric limits of sub-Finsler Lie groups (abstract)
17:00
Pontryagin maximum principle for non-smooth state-constrained control problems over Wasserstein spaces (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ernesto Treumún
16:00-17:30 Session 8C: Invited session: Mixed Integer Programming and Graphs for Challenging Problems
16:00
A Clustered Team Orienteering Problem with Synchronization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aymeric Legros
16:30
Surrogate-Based Optimization for Adversarial Sonar Placement (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lorenzo Demaria
17:00
Graph Partitioning and ADMM for Optimal Pump Scheduling in Drinking Water Distribution Networks (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session 8D: Invited session: Recent Advances in Systematic and Computer-Aided Methods in Optimization part 2
16:00
Optimized Projection-Free Algorithms for Online Learning: Construction and Worst-Case Analysis (abstract)
16:30
Simple Proofs, and How to Find Them (abstract)
17:00
opt-syn: Analysis and Synthesis of First-Order Algorithms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jared Miller
16:00-18:00 Session 8E: Optimisation with chance constraints
16:00
Probability Maximization via Marginal Assesment of Joint Uncertainties (abstract)
PRESENTER: Carolina Chiu
16:30
ProbLiM: A Julia Toolbox for Linear Problems with Chance Constraints (abstract)
17:00
Chance-constrained Linear Complementarity Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rene Henrion
17:30
Eventual convexity for separable chance constraints with skewed generalized hyperbolic random variables (abstract)
PRESENTER: Heng Zhang
16:00-18:00 Session 8F: Solving games and Equilibrium problems
16:00
On Stochastic Nonconvex Bilevel Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daniel Cortild
16:30
Computing Projected solutions of Nash games : from theory to electricity markets (abstract)
PRESENTER: Aussel Didier
17:00
A New Solution Concept for Games Allowing for Infeasibility (abstract)
17:30
Interior-point methods for large-scale equilibrium problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: François Pacaud
16:00-18:00 Session 8G: Optimizing under network structure
16:00
Optimal Power flow in Transmission Networks: a Spectral Graph Theory approach (abstract)
16:30
Data-Driven Security Assessment of Distribution Grids with Weibull-Based Synthetic Data Generation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alban Marie
17:00
A Branch&Check approach for Selecting Multi-Site Balancing Entities (abstract)
17:30
Online Design of Dynamic Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Andrea Araldo
16:00-18:00 Session 8H: Learning dynamics and stochasticity in optimization
16:00
Implicit Bias of SGD for Overparametrized Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Adrien Vacher
16:30
Convergence of Optimizers Implies Eigenvalues Filtering at Equilibrium (abstract)
PRESENTER: Quoc Tung Le
17:00
Path-conditioned training: a principled way to rescale ReLU neural networks (abstract)
17:30
Optimizing Factorable Losses via a Change of Variable: Properties and Computational Opportunities (abstract)
16:00-18:00 Session 8I: Decision making under uncertainty
16:00
Robust stochastic optimization with risk-averse constraints via variance penalization and operator splitting (abstract)
PRESENTER: Paul Malisani
16:30
Probing-Enhanced Stochastic Programming: Structural Dominance, Stability, and Approximate Branch-and-Bound (abstract)
PRESENTER: Franco Quezada
17:00
Graph powers for robust optimization (abstract)
17:30
What Makes Information More Valuable? An Answer With Convex Analysis (abstract)
16:00-18:00 Session 8J: Optimal Tariffs
16:00
Joint Design of Time-of-Use Schedules and Price Levels: a Bilevel Model with Client Participation and Load Flexibility (abstract)
16:30
Competitive Menu Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rita Safi
17:00
Combining Optimal LEZ scheduling and EV Purchase Incentives for Transport Policy Backcasting (abstract)
17:30
Towards Dynamic and Adaptive Tariffs in Electricity Distribution Networks (abstract)
16:00-17:00 Session 8K: Invited session : Quantum Applications in Operations Research part 2
16:00
Quantum Genetic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Adil Kassaoui
16:30
Quantum Computing for Integer Quadratic Programming (abstract)
17:00-18:00 Session 9A: Physics Informed Neural Networks
Chair:
17:00
Parametric Physics Informed Neural Network for the Finite Horizon classical Lady-in-the-Lake Pursuit-Evasion Differential Game (abstract)
17:30
Learning PDEs for Portfolio Optimization with Quantum Physics-Informed Neural Networks (abstract)
17:00-17:30 Session 9B: Quantum algorithms
17:00
A Complex-Valued Continuous-Variable Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm (CCV-QAOA) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Raneem Madani
17:30-18:00 Session 10B: Thoughts on multi-objective optimization
17:30
What is the Objective? Investigating Design Decisions in Continuous Multi-Objective Optimization (abstract)
17:30-18:00 Session 10C: Combinatorial optimization augmented machine learning
Chair:
17:30
Combinatorial Optimization Augmented Machine Learning for Dynamic Electric Autonomous Dial-a-Ride Problem (abstract)
Wednesday, November 18th

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09:10-10:00 Session 11: Plenary 3 : Franck Iutzeler
09:10
Around distributional robustness and generalization in stochastic optimization (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 12A: Invited session: Applications of optimization to power systems and networks
10:30
Benders decomposition with cut selection for long-term generation and storage capacity expansion problems (abstract)
11:00
Scheduling of Nuclear Power Plant Outages under Duration Uncertainty (abstract)
11:30
Single-Level Reformulations for Network Pricing under Wardrop Equilibrium with Separable Affine Costs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jose Neto
12:00
Choice-Based Dynamic Pricing with Deferred Departures in Bike-Sharing Networks (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 12B: Invited session: Discrete optimization for hydro unit commitment problem
10:30
Piecewise linear approximation for the hydro unit commitment problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kea Horvath
11:00
Target-Volume Formulations in the Hydro Unit Commitment Problem (abstract)
11:30
Branch-and-Cut en 2 phases pour gérer les symétries polyédrales, application au 1-HUC (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cecile Rottner
10:30-12:00 Session 12C: Invited session: Geometric Control and Optimization
10:30
Optimal control under uncertainty for relative guidance during orbital rendezvous (abstract)
11:00
Second-order optimality conditions in geometric optimal control (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michele Motta
11:30
Branching of regular abnormal geodesics in sub-Riemannian manifolds of rank two (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicolò Tedesco
10:30-12:30 Session 12D: Optimal Transport & Distributional Robustness
10:30
Quadratically Regularised Wasserstein Medians (abstract)
11:00
Convergence of empirical subgradients for optimal transport-based objectives (abstract)
11:30
Exact Reformulation for Nonconvex Wasserstein DRO: Application to Day-Ahead Renewable Nomination (abstract)
PRESENTER: Charles Garrisi
10:30-12:30 Session 12E: Convergence rates
10:30
Convergence rates for the moment-SoS hierarchy (abstract)
11:00
Beyond Softmax and Entropy: Convergence Rates of Policy Gradients with f-SoftArgmax Parameterization & Coupled Regularization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Safwan Labbi
11:30
Convergence Rates for Stochastic Proximal Methods via Regularized Optimality Gaps (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lucas Ketels
12:00
On convergence rates of subgradient descent on semialgebraic functions (abstract)
10:30-12:00 Session 12F: Routing & Mobility
10:30
Robotaxi Dispatching with Endogenous En-route Times (abstract)
11:00
Pricing for Deliveries Pooling (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicolas Bessin
11:30
Pricing for Real-Time Ride-Sharing with Random Demand and Supply (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rose Sossou Edou
10:30-12:30 Session 12G: Mid and Long Term Energy Management
10:30
Distributed Optimization for Hydro-thermal Scheduling using ADMM Framework (abstract)
PRESENTER: Matias Bresciano
11:00
Stochastic Inflows and Seasonal Water Value at Manantali (abstract)
11:30
Optimizing Muli-Year Investment Planning for Electricity Distribution Grid Resilience (abstract)
PRESENTER: Axelle Cousinou
12:00
Coupled Investments in SMRs and Industrial Sites: a Real Options Analysis (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 12H: Market Design and Strategic Behavior
10:30
SS-TEA: Search-Supervised Transformer Edge Addition for Black-Box Graph Intervention (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shuangshuang Xu
11:00
Market Equilibrium based Co-Opetitive Infrastructure Sharing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mandar Datar
11:30
Trading with market resistance and concave price impact (abstract)
12:00
Long-time behavior of optimal particle systems in mean-field control (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wenbin Yan
10:30-12:30 Session 12I: Optimization for Learning and Large-Scale Decision Making
10:30
Primal-Dual Coordinate Descent for Nonconvex-Nonconcave Saddle Point Problems Under the Weak MVI Assumption (abstract)
PRESENTER: Iyad Walwil
11:00
Controlled Screening for Smooth Objectives (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eyal Vayness
11:30
Consensus-Based Optimization Beyond Finite-Time Analysis (abstract)
PRESENTER: Victor Priser
12:00
Differentiating Minimal-Norm Solutions to Parametric Optimization Problems (abstract)
10:30-12:30 Session 12J: Handling dynamics
10:30
Superposition Principles for Perturbed Sweeping Processes and Differential Inclusions (abstract)
11:00
From Random Games to Deterministic Limits: A Differential-Game Approach to Homogenization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bruno Ziliotto
11:30
Monotone Inclusions for Decision-Dependent Stochastic Problems (abstract)
12:00
Generating electricity with a kite -- optimization and bifurcation analysis (abstract)
PRESENTER: Antonin Bavoil
10:30-13:00 Session 12K: Multiobjective Optimization and Evolutionary Computation Part I
10:30
Reinforcement Learning for Solving Multimodal Functions with CMA-ES (abstract)
PRESENTER: Oskar Girardin
11:00
Discovering Interpretable Multi-Parameter Control Policies for Evolutionary Algorithms Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tai Nguyen
11:30
EvoHGS: Co-evolving Language Models with Hybrid Genetic Search for Vehicle Routing Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zihao Guo
12:00
Online Algorithm Selection: from Foundations to Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Denis Antipov
12:30
A Fresh Look at Lamarckian Evolution and the Baldwin Effect (abstract)
12:00-12:30 Session 13B: On complexity
12:00
On the Complexity of some Unicity Problems (abstract)
12:00-12:30 Session 13C: PDE-constrained optimization
12:00
Rank-Adaptive Tensorized Neural Operators for PDE-Constrained Optimization (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 15A: Optimal Control, Measures and PDE constrained optimization
15:30
Adjoint-based Optimality Conditions for a Probability Maximization Problem (abstract)
16:00
The adjoint state method for parametric definable optimization without smoothness or uniqueness (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cheik Traoré
16:30
Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao differential calculus and optimal control of weighted particle systems (abstract)
17:00
Sensitivity analysis for free time horizon problems in Wassserstein spaces (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 15B: Learning & Neural Networks
15:30
Landscape Analysis for Shallow Neural Networks: Complete Classification of Critical Points for Cubic Activation and Affine Target Functions (abstract)
16:00
On the Explainability of Max-Plus Neural Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ikhlas Enaieh
16:30
Using statistical learning in Operations Research: Generalization Bounds and Diffusion Models (abstract)
17:00
Benchmarking Deep Learning Architectures for Industrial Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring: Performance, Training Efficiency, and Granularity (abstract)
PRESENTER: Laiba Asmatullah
15:30-17:30 Session 15C: Energy Systems
15:30
A Fluid Optimization Approach for Decomposable MDPs with Combinatorial Actions: Application to Offshore Substation Maintenance (abstract)
16:00
Profit-Optimized Maintenance Task Clustering for Gas-Insulated Substations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wenbo Wu
16:30
Optimization of the energy consumption of buildings (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michaël Laporte
17:00
Nodal-Aware Flow-Based Capacity Calculation Through Bilevel Inverse Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pierre Arvy
15:30-17:30 Session 15D: Optimisation challenges in modern mobility
15:30
Feasibility, Cost, and Environmental Assessment of Heavy Duty Truck Fleet Electrification via Mixed Integer Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Malak Al Kostit
16:00
Linear Analytical Model for Static Traffic Assignment: Explicit Formulation and Optimization-Oriented Applications (abstract)
16:30
Large-Scale Analysis of Multi-Scale Queuing Networks for Car-Sharing Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Alessia Rigonat
17:00
Online Combinatorial Learning with Causal Rescheduling for EV Charging (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 15E: Algorithms 2.0 : advances in computational methods
15:30
BundleSolver 2.0: A Modular Implementation of Generalized Bundle Methods (abstract)
16:00
A New Bi-Objective View of Bundle Methods (abstract)
16:30
Solving Minimum-Cost Flows on GPUs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Simeon Schaub
17:00
Parameterized Complexity for Segment Routing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Camille Richer
15:30-17:30 Session 15F: Combinatorial Optimization & Applications
15:30
Combinatorial Optimization for Energy-Efficient In-Network Learning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Garance Gérard
16:00
Through the G-Polymatroid Glass and What Unit Commitment Finds There (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hélène Arvis
16:30
Drawing and Scheduling Incomplete Tournaments with Seeding Constraints: the Case of the UEFA Champions League (abstract)
17:00
Comparing Linear Programming and Mean-Payoff Games via Oriented Matroids (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yiyuan Chen
15:30-17:30 Session 15G: Data Science, Learning and the intersection with Optimization
15:30
On $\ell_0$-Regularized Sparse Multiple Kernel Learning for Feature Selection (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rui Ma
16:00
Multimodal Optimization of K-means Clustering (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ravil Mussabayev
16:30
Deterrence of Manipulation through Preference Elicitation in Personalized Incentive Policies (abstract)
PRESENTER: Andrea Araldo
17:00
Sensitivity of GPU Scheduling Rules to Runtime Estimation Error (abstract)
PRESENTER: Filipe Vinci
15:30-17:30 Session 15H: Invited Session:Neural Network approximations for high-dimensional PDEs Problems
15:30
Neural Feedback Learning for Stochastic Control with Degenerate Diffusions: Quantitative Error Estimates and Numerical Experiments (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marco Scaratti
16:00
Numerical bounds for European option prices in uncertainty volatility model (abstract)
16:30
Mean-Field Generalisation Bounds for Learning Controls in Stochastic Environments (abstract)
17:00
Deep Hilbert-Galerkin Methods for Infinite-Dimensional PDEs and Optimal Control (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jackson Hebner
15:30-17:30 Session 15I: Geometry
15:30
A Unified alpha-Procrustes geometry for finite- and infinite-dimensional positive operators (abstract)
16:00
Exact Extremal Optimization for Wrong-Sign Entries in Equal-Diagonal Symmetric Matrices (abstract)
16:30
Second-Order Reliability Method based on Gram-Charlier A series with analytical Gradient and Hessian of failure probability (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rami Mansour
17:00
Topology optimization of PEMFC channels using a deshomogenization method (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 15J: Operations Research for Food and Healthcare
15:30
Stochastic analysis of an emergency service with two levels sharing the servers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Guillaume Ballif
16:00
Optimizing Hospital Procurement Decisions: The Case of a University Hospital (abstract)
PRESENTER: Cecília Mota
16:30
Scheduling for "Ramasse": How to Collect Goods on the Rungis International Market (abstract)
17:00
Lagrangian heuristic for a food lot-sizing problem (abstract)
15:30-17:30 Session 15K: Multiobjective Optimization and Evolutionary Computation Part II
15:30
A Crowding Distance That Provably Solves the Difficulties of the NSGA-II in Many-Objective Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Benjamin Doerr
16:00
Understanding the Co-evolutionary Solution Exchange of the MOEA/D: Minimal Communication Gives Maximal Speed-Upsh (abstract)
PRESENTER: Martin S. Krejca
16:30
Full-Dimensional Many-Objective Benchmarks for Discrete Multi-Objective Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Dieks Scholten
17:00
Specification of the GDEMO-II Variant for Box Archiving (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jules Fraizier