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Schedule for: 18w5088 - The Traveling Salesman Problem: Algorithms & Optimization

Beginning on Sunday, September 23 and ending Friday September 28, 2018

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, September 23
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, September 24
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:15 Jakub Tarnawski: A constant-factor approximation algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:45 Bill Cook: Open problems on TSP computation (TCPL 201)
11:45 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Kent Quanrud: Approximating metric TSP and approximating the Held-Karp LP (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Viswanath Nagarajan: Stochastic k-TSP (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Stephan Held: Vehicle routing with subtours (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Zachary Friggstad: Compact, provably-good LPs for orienteering and regret-bounded vehicle routing (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, September 25
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Neil Olver: Pipage rounding, pessimistic estimators and matrix concentration (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:30 Shayan Oveis Gharan: Thin trees and the asymmetric traveling salesman, Part 1 (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 12:00 Nima Anari: Thin trees and the asymmetric traveling salesman, Part 2 (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 R. Ravi: Shorter tours and longer detours (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Alantha Newman: Using large cycle covers to find small cycle covers in cubic graphs (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Katarzyna Paluch: New approximation algorithms for (1,2)-TSP (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Vincent Cohen-Addad: On the effectiveness of k-opt for Euclidean TSP (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, September 26
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Martin Naegele: A 1.5-approximation for path TSP (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Vera Traub: Beating the integrality ratio for s-t-tours in graphs (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:30 Jens Vygen: Integrality ratios for the s-t-path TSP (TCPL 201)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, September 27
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Hung Le: PTASes for (subset) TSP in minor-free graphs (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Andras Sebo: The salesman, the postman and (delta-) matroids (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Sam Gutekunst: Semidefinite programming relaxations of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Tobias Moemke: Maximum Scatter TSP in Doubling Metrics (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Kenjiro Takazawa: Excluded t-factors in bipartite graphs: A unified framework for nonbipartite matchings and restricted 2-matchings (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Yuri Faenza: Bounded pitch inequalities for min knapsack: approximate separation and integrality gaps (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, September 28
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Thomas Rothvoss: A Tale of Santa Claus, Hypergraphs and Matroids (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Tom McCormick: Strongly Polynomial Algorithms for Some Problems Related to Parametric Global Minimum Cuts (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:15 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)