Guanghui (George) Lan, Assistant Professor, University of Florida: Stochastic First- and Zero-order Methods for Nonconvex Stochastic Programming

Sabrina Oliveira , Capes Ph.D. fellow at IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium: The improvement and analysis of ACO algorithms for the DTSP by the use of different pheromone restructuring procedures and local searches

Andreas Grothey, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh: Optimization and Exascale Computing

Andreas Grothey, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh: Interior Point warmstarts and stochastic programming

Ryan Whalen, JD and PhD student at Northwestern University: Legal Complexity: Measuring complexity within the Supreme Court precedent network and predicting network growth

Ning Liu, Research Aide, MCS: Designing and Understanding Future Storage System

Genady Gregory Yoffe, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago: Evaluating polynomials in several variables and their derivatives on a GPU computing processor

Yasuhide Fukumoto , Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University, Japan: Kinematic variational principle for vortical structure of Euler flows

Justin M Wozniak, Assistant Computer Scientist, MCS: Swift/T: Scalable dataflow programming for composite applications

O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, Assistant Computational Scientist, LCF : Towards the Quantum Machine: Fast and accurate modeling of quantum chemical properties using machine learning