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Subject: Seminar May 30th 1PM

Title: Numerical Optimal Control
Speaker: Dr. Edward Michael (Mike) Gertz
         Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory
Date: Friday 30 May 2003
Time: 1PM
Location: Bldg. 38A, 5th floor conference room

The classical optimal control problem arises in a number of
applications. I will present a problem from cancer treatment as an
example. This continuous problem can be discretized and approximated
by a nonlinear program.  Interior point methods for nonlinear
programming may exploit the special structure of this problem to solve
it more quickly.  I present a new interior point nonlinear programming
code that is written object-oriented fashion so that it may be
specialized to such problem instances.