Date:
Tuesday, Oct 6, 1:30-2:20, CSE 503 ( CSE Theory Seminar )
Speaker:
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
Title:
Intrinsic Robustness of the Price of Anarchy
Date:
FRIDAY, Oct 9, 3:30-4:20, EEB 125 ( CSE Theory Seminar )
Speaker:
Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
Title:
The Algorithmic Lens: How the Computational Perspective is
Transforming the Sciences
Date:
Tuesday, Oct 13, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Jim Burke, Math, University of Washington
Title: An Inequality State Constrained Nonlinear Kalman-Bucy Smoother
Date:
Tuesday, Oct 20, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Terry Rockafellar, Math, University of Washington
Title: Conjugate Convex Functions and Duality
Date:
Tuesday, Nov 10, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Jonathan Cross, Math, University of Washington
Title: Puiseux Series and Prox-Regularity of the Spectral Abscissa Map
Date:
Tuesday, Nov 17, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Julie Eaton, Math, University of Washington
Title: Spectral Abscissa of Matrices and Continuous Time Dynamical Systems
Date:
Tuesday, Jan 12, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Terry Rockafellar, Math, University of Washington
Title: Composite Modeling Formats in Optimization
Date:
Tuesday, Jan 26, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
David Baker, Biochemistry, UW
Title: Global optimization in protein structure prediction
Date:
Feb 4, Thursday, 4-5 pm, GUG 220 Auditorium ( Boeing Distinguished Colloquium, Applied Math, UW )
Speaker:
George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
Date:
Tuesday, Feb 9, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Yanjun Wang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Title: Global Optimization algorithm for minimizing the CVaR of nonconvex function
Date:
Tuesday, Feb 23, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Lin Xiao, Microsoft Research
Title: Analysis of a Distributed Algorithm for Linear Fisher Markets
Date:
Tuesday, March 2, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Thach Nguyen, CSE, UW
Title: Integrality Gaps of Linear and Semi-definite Programming Relaxations
for Knapsack
Date:
Tuesday, March 9, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Jonathan Cross, University of Washington (thesis defense)
Title: Spectral Abscissa Optimization using Polynomial Stability Conditions
Date:
Tuesday, April 13, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Matthias Koeppe, UC Davis
Title: Fast summation for non-linear mixed integer optimization
Date:
Tuesday, April 27, 12:30-1:20 LOW 202 (Joint seminar with Industrial Engineering)
Speaker:
Mark Abramson, Boeing
Title:
Adventures in Industrial Strength Optimization
Date:
Tuesday, May 4, 12:30-1:20 LOW 202 (Joint seminar with Industrial Engineering)
Speaker:
Zelda Zabinsky, Industrial Engg., UW
Title: Some Theory Behind Algorithms for Stochastic Optimization
Date:
Tuesday, May 11, 12:30-1:20 LOW 202 (Joint seminar with Industrial Engineering)
Speaker:
Ken Westrick, 3Tier Inc., Seattle
Title: 3TIER: Renewable Energy + Information Services (Optimizing strategies for renewable energy sources)
Date:
Tuesday, May 18, 12:30-1:20
Speaker:
Peter Malkin, UC Davis
Title: Sherali-Adams Relaxations of Graph Isomorphism Polytopes
Slides