Serial and Parallel Computational Methods for Large Scale Problems

研究将集中在优化的分析和计算方法上，重点是大规模问题和并行解决方法。研究将集中在非线性规划、网络优化和分布式计算等几个算法领域。需要考虑的特定领域包括网络流问题的松弛方法，分布式异步优化算法的收敛分析，并行算法和分解方法的通信方面以及线性和非线性规划的近点算法。

Research will be concentrated on analytical and computational methods for optimization with emphasis on large- scale problems and parallel solution methods. Research will focus on several algorithmic areas of nonlinear programming, network optimization and distributed computation. Particular areas to be considered include relaxation methods for network flow problems, convergence analysis of distributed asynchronous optimization algorithms, communication aspects of parallel algorithms and decomposition methods and proximal point algorithms for linear and nonlinear programming.