UCSD Optimization and Data Science Seminar (Math 278C)

Wednesday 4-5pm, AP&M 2402 (unless specified)

This seminar gives talks in the broad area of Optimization and Data Science and various aspects, applications.

Don't forget to register Math 287C if you are a graduate student.

Fall Quarter, 2017

Date Speaker Title & Abstract
September 21 Yanfei Wang
(CAS)
Optimization in CT Imaging
October 11 Alex Cloninger
(UCSD)
Two-sample Statistics and Distance Metrics Based on Anisotropic Kernels
October 18 Wenxin Zhou
(UCSD)
Robust Estimation and Inference via Multiplier Bootstrap
October 25 Taylor Brysiewicz
(TAMU)
The Degree of SO(n)
Nobember 1 Ruixue Zhao
(Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.)
On a Global Complexity Bound of the Levenberg-Marquardt Method
Nobember 8 Piya Pal
(UCSD)
Even Order Tensor Decomposition: Role of Sampling and Efficient Algorithms
Nobember 15 Eliz Wong
(UCSD)
Reduced-Hessian methods for bound-constrained optimization
Nobember 29 Anna Seigal
(UC Berkeley)
Real Rank Two Geometry
December 6 Shiqian Ma
(UC Davis)
On the Convergence and Complexity of Nonconvex ADMM
December 7
11:00-12:00
(APM 5829)
Chunfeng Cui
(UC Santa Barbara)
Tensor Data Analysis and Applications

Previous Seminars

  • Spring 2017
  • Winter 2017