Comments and questions about the seminar may be directed to Prof. Thomas (rrthomas at uw dot edu) during the Winter quarter.

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

Schedule

Winter Term

• Note: Unusual time and place!
  Date: Tuesday, January 17, 12:30pm
  Place: Loew Hall, Room 202
  Speaker: Professor Jie Sun, School of Business, National Universsity of Singapore
  Title: Two-stage Stochastic Linear Programs with Incomplete Information on Uncertainty
  

• Note: Unusual time and place.
  Date: Tuesday, January 24, 1:30pm
  Place: CSE 503
  Speaker: Bruce Sheperd, McGill University
  Title: Problems in Robust Network Design
  

• Note: Unusual time and place.
  Date: Thursday, February 2, 1:00pm
  Place: Padelford 401
  Speaker: Chris Jordan-Squire
  Title: Convex Optimization on Probability Measures
  

• Date: Tuesday, February 14, 4:00pm
  Place: Padelford 401
  Speaker: Abraham Flaxman, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  Title: Integrative Systems Modeling of Disease in Populations
  

• NOTE: Unusual time and place !!!!
  Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2:00pm
  Place: CHL 015 (chemistry library)
  Speaker: Chris Aholt
  Title: Triangulation in Computer Vision from Multiple Perspectives
  

• Date: Tuesday, March 6, 4:00pm
  Place: Padelford 401
  Speaker: Brian Donhauser
  Title: Optimal Estimation of Jump Variation in a Bayesian Model of High-Frequency Asset Returns
  

  Spring Term

• Date: Tuesday, April 10, 4:00pm
  Place: Padelford 401
  Speaker: Tim Dwyer, Microsoft Research and Monash University
  Title: Constraint-based layout for network visualization and diagramming applications
  

• Date: Tuesday, April 17, 3:48pm
  Place: Padelford 401
  Speaker: Nam Dǔng Hoāng, Vietnam National Univerity
  Title: Steiner Tree Packing Revisited
  

• Date: Tuesday, May 8, 3:48pm
  Place: Padelford 401
  Speaker: Hossein Mobahi
  Title: Gaussian Smoothing and Asymptotic Convexity
  

• Date: Tuesday, May 15, 3:48pm
  Place: Padelford 401
  Speaker: Tim Hoheisel, University of Würzburg
  Title: Mathematical programs with vanishing constraints
  

• Date: Tuesday, May 22, 3:48pm
  Place: Padelford 401
  Speaker: Ido Bright, Applied Math
  Title: Periodic Optimization suffices for infinite horizon planar optimal control
  

• Date: Tuesday , May 29, 3:48pm
  Place: C-401 Padelford Hall
  Speaker: Sonali Tamhankar
  Title: Online Ad Assignment Problems
  
  

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