UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Dr. Santanu Dey, Professor at H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. We develop two general-purpose strong dual formulations for binary MINLPs, motivated by sensitivity analysis and distributed computation. For mixed binary quadratic programs (MBQPs), we show that the copositive dual of Burer’s completely positive...

UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Minshuo Chen, assistant professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences at Northwestern University Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in various high-dimensional data modeling tasks. These empirical successes challenge conventional wisdom while raising critical concerns. On the one hand, in high-dimensional applications, diffusion models’ strong performance appears to circumvent the...