| Date | Speaker | Title & Abstract |
| April 5 | Cedric Josz (LAAS, CNRS) |
Title: Complex Polynomial Optimization and Its Applications |
| April 12 | John Rehbeck (UCSD) |
Title: Polynomial Optimization and Game Theory |
| April 20 Thursday, AP&M 6402 |
Jong-Shi Pang (USC) |
Title: On the pervasiveness of difference-convexity in optimization and statistics
|
| April 27 Thursday, AP&M 6402 |
Levent Tuncel (Univ. of Waterloo) |
Title: Convex Optimization: A hierarchy of convex cones and new developments in
primal-dual algorithms
|
| May 3 | Tamara Kolda (Sandia Lab) |
Title: Tensor Decompositions: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis |
| May 17 | Piya Pal (UCSD) |
Title: Structured Sampling for Covariance Compression |
| May 31 | Shuxiong Wang (UC Irvine) |
Title: A low rank optimization based method for single cell data
analysis |
| June 7 | Shahrouz Alimo (UCSD) |
Title: Delta-DOGS: efficient new data-driven global optimization
approaches |
Winter 2017