UW OPTIMIZATION SEMINAR
- Jan 22, Karthik Mohan, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington.
Structured learning of gaussian graphical models.
- Jan 29,
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy (faculty candidate), School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell.
Slope and geometry in variational mathematics.
- 2:30pm MEB 246 (nonstandard date and time).
- Feb 1,
Thomas Rothvoss (faculty candidate), Department of Mathematics, MIT.
Approximating Bin Packing within O(log OPT * log log OPT) bins.
- 2:30pm LOW 102 (nonstandard date and time).
- Feb 12, James Pfeiffer, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington.
The K_i Cover Problem with Semidefinite Programming.
- Feb 19,
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech.
Computational and Statistical Tradeoffs via Convex Relaxation
- Feb 26, Ben Recht, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin.
How to make predictions when you're short on information
- CSE/STAT seminar, alternate location and time - 3:30pm EEB-105.
- Mar 12, Neeraj Kumar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. Leafsnap - A Computer Vision System for Automatic Plant Species Identification
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