| Date | Speaker | Title & Abstract |
| January 17 | Igor Klep (Univ. of Auckland) |
Linear Matrix Inequalities, Positivstellensatze and Coin Tossing
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| January 24 | Eliz Wong (UCSD) |
Reduced-Hessian methods for bound-constrained optimization |
| January 31 | Danna Zhang (UCSD) |
Pearson's Chi-squared statistics: approximation theory and beyond |
| Feburary 7 | Lingling Xu (NJNU) |
An exact penalty method for generalized Nash equilibrium problems |
| Feburary 13 | Zhonggang Zeng (NEIU) |
Numerical Solutions of Ill-posed Problems: A Geometric Perspective |
| Feburary 14 | Venkat Chandrasekaran (Caltech) |
Learning Regularizers from Data |
| Feburary 21 | Li Wang (UT Arlington) |
Graph Structure Learning based on Reversed Graph Embedding |
| Feburary 28 | Todd Kemp (UCSD) |
Entanglement of Symmetric Tensors |
| March 7 | Anders Forsgren (KTH, Sweden) |
On the behavior of the method of conjugate gradients and quasi-Newton methods for solving an
unconstrained quadratic program |
| March 14 | |
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