BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6870ecf898c07 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171122T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171122T160000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/continuous-o ptimization-seminar-henry-wolkowicz SUMMARY:Continuous Optimization Seminar - Henry Wolkowicz CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTITLE: Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for the SDP\nRelaxation of the Quadratic Assignment Problem\n\nSpeaker:\n Henry Wolkowicz\n\nAffiliation:\n University of waterloo\n\nRoom:\n MC 54 79\n\nABSTRACT:\n\nThe semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation has prov en to be\nextremely strong for many hard discrete optimization problems. This\nis in particular true for the quadratic assignment problem\n(QAP)\,  arguably one of the hardest NP-hard discrete optimization\nproblems.\n DTSTAMP:20250711T105240Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR