About SPOC 2012

The 2012 International Workshop on Signal Processing, Optimization, and Control (SPOC 2012) will be held at Hefei, Anhui, China, on June 30 - July 3, 2012. The SPOC 2012 workshop aims at providing a platform of interdisciplinary communication for young researchers in the signal processing, optimization, and control communities.

The SPOC 2012 workshop is sponsored by School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China.

Organizing Committee

Qing Ling

School of Information Science and Technology
University of Science and Technology of China

Zaiwen Wen

Institute of Natural Science
Shanghai Jiaotong University

Wotao Yin

Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University

Xiaoming Yuan

Department of Mathematics
Hongkong Baptist University

Invited Speakers

Bin Dong

Department of Mathematics
The University of Arizona

Yongwei Huang

Department of Mathematics
Hongkong Baptist University

Xun Jia

Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences
University of California, San Diego

Xin Liu

         State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing
         Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
         Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jianwei Ma

Department of Mathematics
Harbin Institute of Technology

Richard (Tian-Bai) Ma

School of Computing
National University of Singapore

Shiqian Ma

Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
University of Minnesota

Dan Ruan

Radiation Oncology Department
University of California, Los Angeles

Anthony (Man-Cho) So

Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Xiaojing Ye

School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology

Xiaoqun Zhang

Institute of Natural Science
Shanghai Jiaotong University

Technical Program

July 1, 08:40AM - 08:50AM: Opening

July 1, 08:50AM - 11:30AM: Session 1 (Chair: Xiaoming Yuan)

         08:50AM - 09:25AM: Dan Ruan, Application-driven modeling and optimization in medical physics
         09:25AM - 10:00AM: Richard Ma, Price differentiation in the Kelly mechanism Slides
         10:00AM - 10:35AM: Xun Jia, L21 norm minimization for beam orientation optimization in intensity modulated radiation therapy Slides
         10:35AM - 11:10AM: Anthony So, Physical-layer multicasting by stochastic transmit beamforming and Alamouti space-time coding Slides
         11:10AM - 11:30AM: Panel discussions

July 1, 01:00PM - 03:40PM: Session 2 (Chair: Qing Ling)

         01:00PM - 01:35PM: Shiqian Ma, Alternating proximal gradient method for sparse and low-rank optimization Slides
         01:35AM - 02:10PM: Xin Liu, Beyond heuristics: applying alternating direction method of multipliers in nonconvex territory Slides
         02:10PM - 02:45PM: Yongwei Huang, New rank-one matrix decomposition techniques and applications to signal processing Slides
         02:45PM - 03:20PM: Jianwei Ma, Low-rank matrix completion for seismic data reconstruction
         03:20PM - 03:40PM: Panel discussions

July 1, 04:00PM - 06:05PM: Session 3 (Chair: Zaiwen Wen)

         04:00PM - 04:35PM: Xiaojing Ye, Total variation based image reconstruction with variable stepsizes and its applications
         04:35AM - 05:10PM: Xiaoqun Zhang, Wavelet frame based color image demosaicing
         05:10PM - 05:45PM: Bin Dong, Sparse approximation by wavelet frames and applications Slides
         05:45PM - 06:05PM: Panel discussions

July 2, 08:50AM - 11:30AM: Session 4 (Chair: Wotao Yin)

         08:50AM - 09:25AM: Xiaoming Yuan, A unified proximal revisit on some splitting methods
         09:25AM - 10:00AM: Qing Ling, Decentralized low-rank matrix completion Slides
         10:00AM - 10:35AM: Zaiwen Wen, Alternating direction augmented Lagrangian methods for nonconvex problems
         10:35AM - 11:10AM: Wotao Yin, Some recent results on sparse optimization
         11:10AM - 11:30AM: Panel discussions

Location: Room 3223, No. 3 Teaching Building, University of Science and Technology of China

SPOC 2012 Technical Program.pdf

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Transportation and Accommodation

Transportation and Accommodation.pdf