Date: Tuesday, Oct 4 and 11, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Terry Rockafellar, Math, UW
Title:
Monotone Mappings in Convex Optimization: I
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Date: Tuesday, Oct 11, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Terry Rockafellar, Math, UW
Title:
Monotone Mappings in Convex Optimization: II
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Media Player)
Date: Tuesday, Oct 18, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Paul Tseng, Math, UW
Title:
SDP relaxation of Quadratic Optimization with Homogeneous Quadratic Constraints
Date: Tuesday, Oct 25, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Rafal Goebel, Math, UW
Title:
Some applications of (finite-dimensional) optimization to the stabilization problem
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Date: Tuesday, Nov 8, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Brad Bell, Applied Physics Lab, UW
Title:
An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation
Date: Tuesday, Nov 15, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Qiuying Lin, Math, UW
Title:
Portfolio Optimization with General Deviation Measures and Box
Constraints
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Date: Tuesday, Nov 22, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Sangho Kum, Chungbuk National Univ.
Title:
Extensions of Complementarity Functions to Symmetric Cones
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Date: Tuesday, Nov 29, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Jim Burke, Math, UW
Title:
Variational Analysis and the Roots of Polynomials
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Date: Tuesday, Dec 6, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Jim Burke, Math, UW
Title:
Polyhedral Constraint Idenification
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Jiawang Nie, Math, UC Berkeley
Title:
Sum of Squares methods in global optimization of polynomial functions
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Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
John E. Dennis Jr., Rice University and UW
Title:
Optimal Placement of Tsunami Warning Buoys
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Paul Tseng, Math, UW
Title:
Optimization Methods with Signal Denoising Applications
Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Terry Rockafellar, Math, UW
Title:
A Network Flow Model for Equilibrium Prices in Hedonic Economics
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Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Yeongcheon Baek, Qiuying Lin, and Linda Xu, Math, UW
Title:
Graduate research in optimization
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Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Jay Henniger, WAMU
Title:
Small Portfolio Selection for Index Tracking and Option Hedging under Basis Risk
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Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Samuel Burer, Iowa
Title:
Finite Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Nonconvex Quadratic Programming via
Semidefinite Programming
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Date: Monday, February 27, 3:30-4:20, Thomson 119
Speaker:
Mukund Narasimhan, Microsoft
Title:
Applications of Submodular Optimization in Engineering
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Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-401 (unusual room!)
Speaker:
Ana Luisa Custodio, New University of Lisbon
Title:
Improving Efficiency in Pattern Search Methods
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Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Jefferson Duarte, Finance, Univ. Washington
Title:
Nonparametric Option Pricing under Shape Restrictions
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Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Goran Lesaja, Georgia Southern
Title:
A Class of Large- and Small-update Primal-dual Interior-point
Algorithms for Linear Optimization Based on the New Barrier Function
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Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Liang Xu, UW Math
Title:
Large scale optimization with simple bounds
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Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Rafal Goebel, UW Math
Title:
Hermes and Krasovskii solutions to hybrid dynamical systems --
how set-valued analysis comes up in the robust stabilization problem
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Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Terry Rockafellar, UW Math
Title:
Tilt Perturbations of a Local Minimizer or Stationary Point
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Date: Saturday, May 13, 8:45-2:40, PDL C-36
Event: West Coast Optimization Meeting
Schedule: See
WCOM homepage
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2:30-3:20, PDL C-36
Speaker:
Sreeram Narayanan, Radiation Oncology, UW
Title:
Point matching optimization and applications to data registration in medical imaging
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