Topics in Semidefinite and Interior-Point Methods

This volume presents refereed papers presented at the workshop 'Semidefinite Programming and Interior-Point Approaches for Combinatorial Problems' held at The Fields Institute in May 1996. In addition to the interesting theoretical and algorithmic questions, SDP has found many important applications in combinatorial optimization, control theory and other areas of mathematical programming. SDP is currently a very hot area of research. The papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum
of recent developments in SDP.