Workshop II: Numerical Methods for Continuous Optimization

October 11 - 15, 2010

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 11, 2010

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:20
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:50
Pablo Parrilo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Rank/sparsity minimization and latent variable graphical model selection
PDF Presentation

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20
5:30 - 7:30 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:20
Yurii Nesterov (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Efficiency of Quasi-Newton Methods on Strictly Positive Functions
PDF Presentation

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:50
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50
Martina Gancarova and Michael Todd, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

A Robust Optimization Result
PDF Presentation

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:20
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:50
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50
Benjamin Recht (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems
PDF Presentation

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20

To Be Announced


Thursday, October 14, 2010

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:20
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:50
Andreas Waechter (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization with Inexact Step Computations
PDF Presentation

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20
Nathan Srebro (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)

More Data Less Work: Optimization from a Machine Learning Perspective


Friday, October 15, 2010

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:20
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:50
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:50
Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)

Taking advantage of Degeneracy in Cone Optimization
PDF Presentation

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20
Maryam Fazel (University of Washington)

Algorithms for Rank Minimization of Structured Matrices