Comments and questions about the seminar may be directed to Jim Burke during the Winter quarter.

This seminar may be taken by UW students for credit as Math 530D.

Schedule

• Date: Tuesday, January 22, 12:30am
  Speaker: Bradley Bell
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: A Marginal Likelihood Example
  

• Date: Tuesday, January 29, 12:30am
  Speaker: Paul Tseng
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Block-coordinatewise methods for sparse optimization with nonsmooth regularization
  

• Date: Tuesday, February 5, 12:30am
  Speaker: Larry Nazareth
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Complementary Perspectives on Optimization Algorithms

• Date: Tuesday, February 12, 12:30am
  Speaker: Rekha Thomas, Math
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Small Chvatal Rank
  

• Date: Tuesday, February 19, 12:30am
  Speaker: CANCELED
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: CANCELED
  

• Date: Tuesday, February 26, 12:30am
  Speaker: Terry Rockafellar
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Monotone Mappings and the Proximal Point Algorithm
  

• Date: Tuesday, March 4, 12:30am
  Speaker: Miguel Gomez, Applied Math
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Optimization-Based Analysis of Rigid Mechanical Systems with Unilateral Contact and Kinetic Friction
  

• Date: Tuesday, March 11, 12:30am
  Speaker: Jim Burke
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Convex Composite Optimization
  

• Date: Tuesday, April 15, 12:30am
  Speaker: TBA
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: TBA
  

• Date: Tuesday, April 22, 12:30am
  Speaker: TBA
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: TBA
  

• Date: Tuesday, April 29, 12:30am
  Speaker: Paul D. Frank, Boeing Corp.
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Systems of Systems Optimization Formulations with Application to Aircraft Selection and Design
  

• Date: Tuesday, May 13, 12:30am
  Speaker: TBA
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: TBA
  

• Date: Tuesday, May 27, 12:30am
  Speaker: Chris Ryan, UBC
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Bi-Level Optimization
  

• Date: Tuesday, June 3, 12:30am
  Speaker: TBA
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: TBA
  

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