6th SDP Day

Workshop on Applications of Semidefinite Optimization

CWI, Amsterdam - Room L16 - April 5, 2018

Programme

From 10:00 Coffee
10:30 - 11:15 Lecture by William Slofstra, University of Waterloo
The membership problem for quantum correlation sets
11:30 - 12:15 Lecture by Hamza Fawzi, University of Cambridge
Semidefinite approximations of the matrix logarithm Slides.
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 14:30 Lecture by Frank Vallentin, Universität zu Köln
A concrete question about packings and coverings
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00 Lecture by Fernando Oliveira, Technical University Delft
An exact completely-positive formulation for the independence number of topological graphs
16:15 - 17:00 Lecture by Daniel Dadush, CWI Amsterdam
Balancing vectors in any norm
17:00 - 18:00 Drinks

Registration

Participation is free, but please register by sending an email to Susanne van Dam (susanne@cwi.nl) before 25 March so that we can organize the catering.

Location

CWI, room L16

CWI, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam. Directions can be found here.

Organizers

Nikhil Bansal, Monique Laurent, Ronald de Wolf

NWO TOP Project AQSO: Approximation Algorithms, Quantum Information and Semidefinite Optimization.

Information about the 5th SDP Days

can be found here.

Information about the 4th SDP Days

can be found here.

Sponsors

Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN MINOA