Conic lifts of convex sets - Nathan Benedetto

Title: Conic lifts of convex sets

Abstract: Conic programming provides a natural setting in which Yannakakis's factorization result generalizes. After establishing this result (basically by repeating the proof presented by Pashkovich!), one can tackle the actually important question: why would a simple person, living in a simple polyhedral world, ever want to go beyond linear programming?