UCSD Optimization and Data Science Seminar (Math 278C)

Wednesday 3-4pm, zoom (unless specified)

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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.

Winter Quarter, 2022

Date Speaker Talk Title
January 5 Beginning meeting

January 12 Long Chen
(UC Irvine)
From ODE solvers to accelerated first-order methods for convex optimization
January 19 Zheng Qu
(HK Univ.)
On the exactness of Lasserre’s relaxation for polynomial optimization with equality constraints
January 26 Zequn Zheng
Tensor decomposition methods
February 2 Xiaomeng Hu
Semi-Infinite Programming
February 16 Ying Cui
(Univ. Minnesota)
A decomposition algorithm for two-stage stochastic programs with nonconvex recourse
February 23 Jiyoung Choi
Estimation of Lipschitz Constants for Deep Neural Networks
March 2 Hanbaek Lyu
(Unv. Wisconsin)
Convergence and Complexity of Stochastic Block Majorization-Minimization
March 9 Hongchao Zhang
(LSU)
Golden ratio primal-dual algorithm with linesearch

Previous Seminars

  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2017
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