v UCSD Optimization Seminar

UCSD Optimization and Data Science Seminar (Math 278C)

The seminar runs in zoom on Wednesdays 4-5pm, or specified otherwise.


The zoom meeting link is
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/92658461639?pwd=ERetObkfSfJ0xJlilzRm1fTfEOaL2K.1
Meeting ID:926 5846 1639
Password: OPT25FA

This seminar gives talks in the broad area of Optimization and Data Science and various aspects, applications.

Don't forget to register Math 278C if you are a graduate student.

Fall Quarter, 2025

Date Speaker Talk Title
9/18 Zi Yang
(SUNY)
Efficient Tensor Algorithms and Their Applications in Data Science
10/08 Michele Benzi
(Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
An augmented Lagrangian preconditioner for the control of the Navier--Stokes equations
10/15 Rob Webber
(UCSD)
Randomly sparsified Richardson iteration: A dimension-independent sparse linear solver
10/22 Lijun Ding
(UCSD)
On Squared-Variable Formulations for Nonlinear Semidefinite Programming
10/29 Xiaomeng Hu
(SDSU)
Adjoint-Based Methods for Forcing Inference
11/19 Yusu Wang
(UCSD)
Size (OOD) Generalization of Neural Models via Algorithmic Alignment
11/25 Amber Puha
(CSU San Marcos)
The Stationary Behavior of Reflecting Coupled Brownian Motions with Applications to Shortest Remaining Processing Time Queues
12/03 Wenqi Zhu
(Oxford)
Beyond Second Order Methods for Nonconvex Optimization

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