University of Waterloo

Continuous Optimization Seminar

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Continuous Optimization Seminar Series at the University of Waterloo.
This seminar is organized by members of Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, Faculty of Mathematics.

Topics in the series include:

convex optimization,
linear / quadratic / semidefinite programming,
compressed sensing,
polynomial programming,
relaxations of hard combinatorial problems,
mathematical finance,

and a variety of other applied and theoretical subjects related to continuous optimization.

To join our seminar list, follow this link:
https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/contoptseminar

The seminar series' coordinators are Vris Cheung (yl2cheun AT uwaterloo DOT ca), Sahar Karimi (s2karimi AT uwaterloo DOT ca), Stephen Vavasis (vavasis AT math DOT uwaterloo DOT ca) and Henry Wolkowicz (hwolkowi AT uwaterloo DOT ca).

If you are interested in giving a talk at Continuous Optimization Seminar, please do not hestitate to contact the coordinators.

Previously held seminars

Schedule of Winter 2013

January 21, 2013
MC 6052, 11am-12noon

Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
++ Active sets, steepest descent, and smooth approximations of functions ++

January 17, 2013
Maintained by Vris