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Title: UW NA Seminar, Dr. Watson on "Globally Convergent Methods for ..."
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Posted: Mon Dec 20 14:00:31 1982
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               DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
               UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
               SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

               NUMERICAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR - Friday, January 7, 1983.

               Dr. G.A. Watson of Dundee University, Scotland,  will
               speak  on  "Globally  Convergent  Methods  for  Semi-
               infinite  Programming Problems".

               TIME:  3:30 PM

               ROOM:  M&C 5158

               ABSTRACT

               Many optimization problems which  arise  in  practice
               can  be  posed as semi-infinite programming problems,
               which have a finite number of unknown parameters, but
               an  infinite  number  of constraints.  Except in some
               special cases, recently developed  methods  for  such
               problems  have only local convergence properties.  In
               this talk, it is shown how  the  convergence  can  be
               globalized  by  the use of an exact penalty function.
               An algorithm based on  this  approach  is  presented,
               along with numerical results.

                     December 20, 1982