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Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

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Department of Mathematics (UW)

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Smith Hall room 211

See the abstracts of invited talks.

8:00 - 8:30 Light Breakfast.

• Morning Session Talks (8:30 - 12:00)
  • 8:30 - 8:40: Welcome

  • 8:40 - 9:20: Lieven Vandenberghe, University of California Los Angeles, Electrical Engineering
    Decomposition in semidefinite programming

  • 9:20 - 10:00: Nikhil Devanur, Microsoft Research Redmond, Theory Group
    Prior-robust algorithms for online matching

  • 10:00 - 10:20: Coffee Break

  • 10:20 - 11:00: Richard Tapia, Rice University, Computational and Applied Mathematics
    Inverse, Shifted Inverse, and Rayleigh Quotient Iteration as Newton's Method

  • 11:00 - 11:40: Zelda Zabinsky, University of Washington, Industrial Engineering
    Adaptive Random Search for Global Optimization with an Interacting Particle Algorithm

• 11:40 - 1:30: Lunch Break

• Afternoon Session (1:30 - 4:30)
  • 1:30 - 2:10: Aleksandr Aravkin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    Piecewise linear quadratic and quadratic support functions in regularized regression, machine learning, system identification, and ESPECIALLY Kalman smoothing.

  • 2:10 - 2:50: Terry Rockafellar, University of Washington, Mathematics
    Risk and Regret in Stochastic Optimization

  • 2:50 - 3:10: Coffee Break

  • 3:10 - 3:50: Ben Taskar, University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering
    Inference and Optimization in Determinantal Point Processes
    

  • 3:50 - 5:30: Discussion