The seminar is organized by Prof. Burke, Prof. Fazel, Prof. Thomas, and James Pfeiffer.

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

• (Special talks) Apr 16-18, Milliman Lectures, Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley.


• Apr 23, De Dennis Meng, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington. Max-min cost flow problem and maximizing the length of geodesic via convex optimization


• Apr 30, Ido Bright, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington. Periodic Optimization suffices for infinite horizon planar optimal control.


• (Special talk) May 3, Richard Tapia, Rice University. Part of the Math Across Campus series.


• May 4, West Coast Optimization Meeting.


• May 14, Jing Hong, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington. Low Rank Estimation for Matrices with Missing Diagonal


• May 21, Yang Song, Departent of Mathematics, University of Washington. Stochastic Programming in Finance.


• May 28, Christopher Jordan-Squire, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington. Convex Optimization on Probability Measures

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