West Coast Optimization Meeting: Spring 2013

  • Date: 05/04/2013
Lecturer(s):
Lieven Vandenberghe (UCLA)
Decomposition in semidefinite programming

Nikhil Devanur (Microsoft Research)
Prior-robust algorithms for online matching

Richard Tapia (Rice University)
Inverse, Shifted Inverse, and Rayleigh Quotient Iteration as Newton's Method

Zelda Zabinsky (University of Washington)
Adaptive Random Search for Global Optimization with an Interacting Particle Algorithm

Aleksandr Aravkin (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Piecewise linear quadratic and quadratic support functions in regularized regression, machine learning, system identification, and ESPECIALLY Kalman smoothing.

Terry Rockafellar (University of Washington)
Risk and Regret in Stochastic Optimization

Ben Taskar (University of Washington)
Inference and Optimization in Determinantal Point Processes
Location: 

University of Washington

Abstracts / Downloads / Reports: 
wcom13_Webarchive.zip
Schedule: 

May 4, 2013, 8:00am - 4:00pm.

        8:00 - 8:30 Light Breakfast.

        Morning Session Talks (8:30 - 12:00)

        8:30 - 8:40: Welcome

        8:40 - 9:20: Lieven Vandenberghe

        9:20 - 10:00: Nikhil Devanur

        10:00 - 10:20: Coffee Break

        10:20 - 11:00: Richard Tapia

        11:00 - 11:40: Zelda Zabinsky

        11:40 - 1:30: Lunch Break

        Afternoon Session (1:30 - 4:30)

        1:30 - 2:10: Aleksandr Aravkin

        2:10 - 2:50: Terry Rockafellar

        2:50 - 3:10: Coffee Break

        3:10 - 3:50: Ben Taskar

        3:50 - 5:30: Discussion
Other Information: 

The conference lectures will take place in Smith Hall room 211.

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