Multiscale Optimization in VLSI Physical Design Automation -- A Distributed Method for Solving Semidefinite Programs Arising from Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Network Localization -- Optimization Algorithms for Sparse Representations and Applications -- A Unified Framework for Modeling and Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems: A Tutorial -- Global Convergence of a Non-monotone Trust-Region Filter Algorithm for Nonlinear Programming -- Factors Affecting the Performance of Optimization-based Multigrid Methods -- A Local Relaxation Method for Nonlinear Facility Location Problems -- Fluence Map Optimization in IMRT Cancer Treatment Planning and A Geometric Approach -- Panoramic Image Processing using Non-Commutative Harmonic Analysis Part I: Investigation -- Generating Geometric Models through Self-Organizing Maps -- Self-similar Solution of Unsteady Mixed Convection Flow on a Rotating Cone in a Rotating Fluid -- Homogenization of a Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problem Modelling Galvanic Interactions on a Heterogeneous Surface -- A Simple Mathematical Approach for Determining Intersection of Quadratic Surfaces -- Applications of Shape-Distance Metric to Clustering Shape-Databases -- Accurately Computing the Shape of Sandpiles -- Shape Optimization of Transfer Functions -- Achieving Wide Field of View Using Double-Mirror Catadioptric Sensors -- Darcy Flow, Multigrid, and Upscaling -- Iterated Adaptive Regularization for the Operator Equations of the First Kind -- Recover Multi-tensor Structure from HARD MRI Under Bi-Gaussian Assumption -- PACBB: A Projected Adaptive Cyclic Barzilai-Borwein Method for Box Constrained Optimization -- Nonrigid Correspondence and Classification of Curves Based on More Desirable Properties.