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Research talks

Here are some recent talks. I'll try to add a few more in the near future.

Talks

• Switched linear systems and infinite products of matrices   [PDF]
  SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, Bern, Switzerland, July 2019.
• Semidefinite approximations of the matrix logarithm (and related functions)   [PDF]
  Caltech CMS, November 2018.
• Graph structure in polynomial systems: chordal networks   [PDF]
  2016 SIAM Annual Meeting, plenary talk, July 2016.
• Dimension reduction for semidefinite programming   [PDF]
  Mathematical Optimization Down Under (MODU2016), Melbourne, Australia, July 2016.
• Convex sets, matrix factorizations and positive semidefinite rank   [PDF]
  20th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS), plenary talk, July 2016.
• From stable sets to sums of squares and cone factorizations   [PDF]
  Oberwolfach Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, November 2011.
• An optimal architecture for decentralized control over posets   [PDF]
  ISL Colloquium, Stanford University, March 2011.
• Rank/sparsity minimization and latent variable graphical model selection   [PDF]
  IPAM Workshop on Numerical Methods for Continuous Optimization, October 2010.
• Consistency of Preferences and Near-Potential Games   [PDF]
  Workshop on Distributed Decisions via Games and Price Mechanisms, Lund University, Sweden, March 2010.
• The convex algebraic geometry of rank minimization   [PDF]
  International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2009), plenary talk, August 2009.
• Semidefinite programming and convex algebraic geometry   [PDF]
  Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM 2008), plenary talk, June 2008.
• Exact semidefinite representations for genus zero curves   [PDF]
  Banff Workshop on "Positive polynomials and optimization", Banff, October 2006.
• Sum of squares optimization in the analysis and synthesis of control systems   [PDF]
  2006 American Control Conference (ACC 2006), Eckman Lecture, June 2006.
• SOS/SDP methods: from optimization to games   [PDF]
  31th LNMB Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research, Lunteren, The Netherlands, January 2006.