NANJING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
OPTIMIZATION AND NUMERICAL ALGEBRA
( September 27--30, 1999 )
PROGRAM
September 26

Afternoon and evening: registration.
              address: YA HUA Hotel, Room. September 27

08:00--10:00    opening ceremony; making photo.
10:00--10:20    coffee break.

Invited plenary talk session (MON(A)): chair: Liqun Qi

10:20--11:00    Josef Stoer (Wuerzburg University, Gemany)
                High Order Interior Point Methods for Solving Linear
                Complementarity Problem.
11:00--11:40    Andy J. Wathen (Oxford University, UK)
                Preconditioning and Iterative Solution of Constrained
                Linear Systems.
11:40--12:20    Xiangsun Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
                Neural Network for Solving Mathematical Programming.

12:40 Lunch (SHUI YUAN Restaurant)

Invited plenary talk session (MON(B)): chair: Thomas F. Coleman

14:00--14:40    Peter Kall (University of Zuerich, Switzerland)
                Multistage Stochastic Programming: Aggregation,
                Approximation, and some Open Problem.
14:40--15:20    Kok Lay Teo (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
                Time Optimal Control and Impulsive Optimal Control Problem.
15:20--16:00    Zhuhe Shen (Nanjing University, China)
                Interval-Majorant Method for Optimization Problem.
16:00--16:20    coffee break.

Contributed Sessions:

Group MON1chair: Danny Ralph
     Address:

16:20--18:20   *Chuangying Dang (City University, Hong Kong)
                Predictor-Corrector Method for Approximating a Solution
                of Box-Constrained Concave Quadratic Minimization Problem
               *Paul Armond (Faculte des Sciences, France)
                A feasible BFGS Interior Point Algorithm for Solving
                Strongly Convex Minimization Problems.
               *Edgar Silva Pereira (Universidade de Beira Interior,
                Portugal)
                Newton's Method for Matrix Polynomials.
               *Lihua Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
                A Family of Scaled Factorized Broyden-like Methods for
                Nonlinear Least Squares Problems.
               *Donghui Li (Hunan University, China)
                Globally Convergent Broyden-like Methods for Semismooth
                Equations and Applications to VIP, NCP and MCP.

Group MON2: chair: Bingsheng He
     Address:

16:20--18:20   *Xiaoqi Yang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK)
                Penalty Function Methods for semi-infinite Program.
               *Soon-Yi Wu ( National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
                Cutting Plane Approach to Soving Quadratic Infinite
                Programming on Measure Spaces.
               *Jia-wang Nie (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
                A Potential Reduction Algorithm for an Extended SDP Problem.
               *Zhenjun Shi (Qufu Normal University, China)
                A Restricted Polak-Ribiere Conjugate Gradient Method and its
                Global Convergence.
               *Nobuo Yamashita (Kyoto University, Japan)
                The Proximal Point Algorithm with Finite Termination for
                Linear Complementarity Problem.

Group MON3: session of competition for the award of youth excellent paper.
chair: Jiangzhong Zhang
    Address:

16:20--18:20

19:00 Reception Banquet (SHUI YUAN Restaurant) September 28

Invited plenary talk session (TUE(A)): chair: Josef Stoer

08:00--08:40    Liqun Qi (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
                A New QP-Free, Globally Convergent, Locally Superlinearly
                Convergent Algorithm for Inequality Constrained Optimization.
08:40--09:20    Danny Ralph (University of Melbourne, Australia)
                Some Results on Optimization of a semi-infinite max-min
                Function.
09:20--10:00    Thomas F. Coleman (Cornell University, USA)
                A Newton Method for Option Valuation.
10:00--10:20    coffee break.

Invited plenary talk session (TUE(B)): chair: Andy Wathen

10:20--11:00    Walter Gander (Department Informatik, Switzerland)
                A shape Distance as Least Squares Problem for CAD-Described
                Surfaces.

11:00--11:40    Jiguang Sun (University of Umea, Sweden)
                Perturbation Analysis of the Symmetric Quadratic
                Eigenproblem.

12:00 Lunch (SHUI YUAN Restaurant)

13:30 Nanjing City-Tour
(Departure at the gate of Nanjing Normal University) September 29

Invited plenary talk session (WEN(A)): chair: Kok Lay Teo

08:00--08:40    Masao Fukushima (Kyoto University, Japan)
                Nonlinear Proximal Decomposition Method with Bregman
                Function.
08:40--09:20    Jianzhong Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
                On the efficiency of Truncated Newton Method for
                Unconstrained Optimization.
09:20--10:00    Yin Zhang (Rice University, USA)
                Solving Semi-definite Program via Nonlinear Programming:
                Part I: Transformation and Derivatives.
10:00--10:20    coffee break.

Invited plenary talk session (WEN(B)): chair: Yongzhong Song

10:20--11:00    Wilhelm Niethammer (Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany)
                The Successive Over-relaxation Method (SOR) and Markov
                Chains.
11:00--11:40    Erxiong Jiang (Fudan University, China)
                Extension of the Roots Separation Theorem.
11:40--12:20    Wen-Wei Lin (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
                On Computing the Stable Deflating Subspaces of Cyclic
                Symplectic Matrix Pairs.

12:40 Lunch (SHUI YUAN Restaurant)

Contributed talk session:

Group WEN1: session of Memory of Late Professor Xuchu He.
Chair: Jiu Ding
    Address:

14:00--16:00   *Chuangying Dang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
                Computing an Integer Point of a Class of Convex Sets.
               *Wenyu Sun (Nanjing Normal University, China)
                Nonmonotonic Trust Region Methods for Solving Optimization
                Problems.
               *Bingshen He (Nanjing University, China)
               *Pinqi Pan (Southeast University, China)
                A Projective Pivot Algorithm for Linear Program.
               *Linping Sun (Nanjing University, China)
               *Qin Ni (Nanjing University of Aero- and Astronautics, China)
                A New Inexact Sequential Quadratic Programming Algorithm.

Group WEN2: chair: Shu-Chern Fang
    Address:

14:00--16:00   *Peerayuth Charnsethikul (Kasetsart University, Tailand)
                A Row/Column Generation Method for the Linear Resource
                Problem.
               *Kevin E. Gates (University of Queensland, Australia)
                Computer Simulation of randomly Oriented EPR Spectra.
               *Chern-shun Wang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)
                Some Numerical Problems for Solving the Two Feedback Control
                Problem in Optimal H-infinity Norms.
               *Dongguang Li (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
                Global Optimization using Orthogonal Latin Squares.
               *Rongxin Gao (Hunan Finance and Economy Colleage, China)
                Stochastic Equilibria and Hua's Model.
               *Daoli Zhu (Fudan University, China)
                The Dual Theory of Variational Inequalities and Constrined
                Traffic Equilibrium.

Group WEN3: chair: Zhongzhi Bai
    Address:

14:00--16:00   *Zhongzhi Bai (Chinese Academy of sciences. china)
                Modified Block SSOR Preconditioners for Symmetric Positive
                Definite Linear System.
               *Weichung Wang (National Taiwan Teachers Colleage, Taiwan)
                Using Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient in Final Iterations
                of Interior Point Methods.
               *Wen Li (South China Normal University, China)
                Parallel Multisplitting Iterative Methods for Singular
                M-Matrices.
               *Chunguang Li (Zhenzhou University, China)
                An Adaptive CGNR Algorithm for Solving Large Linear Systems.
               *Tongxiang Gu (Institute of applied Physics and
                Computational Mathematics, China)
                Relaxed Parallel Two-Stage Multisplitting Methods.
               *Hongbin Guo (Fudan University)
                Computing the Smallest Singular Value of Large Scale
                Matrices.
               *Yiming Wei (Fudan university, China)
                Convergence Properties of Crilov Space Methods.
               *Dazhen Li (Sichuan University of Science and Technology,
                China)
                Real cyclotomic Polynomials and Chebyshev Polynomials.
               *Lu Lin
                On the square root of an H-matrix with positive diagonal
                elements.
               *Zhengsheng Wang (Nanjing University of Aero- Astronautics,
                China)
                An Adaptive Block QMRIOMq Method for Solving Unsymmetric
                Linear Systems with Multiple Right-hand Sides.

Group WEN4: session of memory of late Prof Xuchu He: Chair:Qin Ni
     Address:

16:20-18:20    *Jiguang Sun (University of Umea, Sweden)
                The generalized Singular Value Decomposition (GSVD) of
                two matrices.
               *Jinxi zhao (Nanjing University, China)
                Decomposition Algorithm for KKT System.
               *Jiu Ding (University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
                Perturbation of Systems of Linear Algebr Equations.
               *Hua Dai (Nanjing University of Aero- Astronautics, China)
                Block Bidiagonalization Methods for Solving Nonsymmetric
                Linear Systems with Multiple Right-hand Sides.
               *Yimin Wei (Fudan University, China)
                Representation of Moore-Penrose Inverse in Hilbert Space.
               *Qin Shen (University of Southwestern Louissana, USA)
                On a Quadratic Spline Collocated Numerical Method for
                Solving the Generalized Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations.

Group WEN5: chair: Xiaoqi Yang
    Address:

16:20--18:20   *Alvaro R. De Pierro (State University of Campinas, Brazil)
                Parallel vs Sequential Methods for Optimization Model in
                Tomography.
               *Mina Kribeni (National Technical University of Athens,
                Greece)
                Steepest Descent Optimization with Variable Step Size.
               *Li Gao (Peking University, China)
                Numerical Algorithm for Nonlinear L_p Problem.
               *Yu-hong Dai (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
                A Class of Globally Convergent Conjugate Gradient Methods.
               *Zhangyou Huang (Shangdong Mine Colleage, China)
                An SQP Algorithm Using Active Set Technique.

Group WEN6: chair: Soon-Yi Wu
    Address:

16:20--18:20   *V. Rhymend Uthariaraj (Anna University, India)
                Algorithms to Minimizing Popping Variables in Linear
                Programming Problems.
               *Siming Huang (Academia Sinica, China0
                Expected Number of Iterations of Interior Point Algorithms
                for Linear Programming.
               *Xinwei Liu (Hebei University of Technology, China)
                Sequential Quadratic Programming Method for Solving a Class
                of multistage nonlinear stochastic Programs.
               *Guozhen Ruan (Xiangtan University, China)
                Basic Linear Algorithm, for Linear Programming.
               *Donghua Wu (Shanghai University, China)
                A Level-Value Estimation Method for Solving Global\
                Optimization.

Group WEN7: chair: Yin Zhang
    Address:

16:20--18:20   *Ziluan Wei (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
                Regular Splitting and Potential Reduction Method for Solving
                Quadratic Programming Problem with Box Constraints.
               *Defeng Sun (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
                Second-Order Algorithms for Generalized Finite and
                Semi-Infinite Min-Max Problems.
               *Dingguo Pu ( Shanghai Tiedao university, China)
                The Convergence of DFP Algorithm without Exact Line search.
               *Xiaojiao Tong (Hunan University, China)
                Global Convergence of Trust Region Algorithm for Equality and
                Bound Constrained Nonlinear Optimization.
               *Zhiying Ou (Gansu University of Technology, China)
                A Class of Conjugate Gradient Algorithm with Convergence of
                Second Order for N-Steps.
               *Jinghao Zhu (Tongji University, China)
                Applying nonlinear Programming Method in Nonlinear Optimal
                Control Problems. September 30

Invited plenary talk session (THU(A)): chair: Masao Fukushima

08:00--08:40    Michael C. Ferris (University of Wisconsin, USA)
                A Fault Tolerance Condor-PVM Mixed Integer Program Solver.
08:40--09:20    Shu-Cherng Fang (North Carolina State University, USA)
                On the General Capacity Problem.
09:20--10:00    Guocheng Feng (Jilin University, China)
                The Aggregate Function and Path Following Methods for
                Mathematical Programming.
10:00--10:20    coffee break

Invited plenary talk session (THU(B)): chair: Jianzhong Zhang

10:20--11:00    Jie Sun (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
                On the Rate of Local Convergence of High-order-path-following
                Algorithms for Complementarity Problem.
11:00--11:40    Christian Kanzow (University of Hanburg, Germany)
                Smoothing-type Methods for Linear Programs.
11:40           Closing

12:30 Lunch (SHUI YUAN Restaurant)