Topics in Optimization and Engineering Applications.

Due to this unique opportunity, these talks will be listed on this seminar page.

Comments and questions about the seminar may be directed to Jim Burke during the Spring quarter.

This seminar may be taken by UW students for credit as Math 530D.

Schedule

• Date: Friday, April 4, 2:30pm
  Place: Electrical Engineering Building 105
  Speaker: Prof. Stephen Boyd
  Title: Recent Advances in Convex Optimization
  

• Date: Friday, April 11, 2:30pm
  Place: Electrical Engineering Building 105
  Speaker: Prof. Mung Chiang
  Title: Beyond Optimality: New Trends in Network Optimization
  

• Date: Friday, April 18, 2:30pm
  Place: Electrical Engineering Building 105
  Speaker: Dr. Lin Xiao
  Title: Distributed Average Consensus: Convergence, Robustness, and Optimization
  

• Date: Friday, April 25, 2:30pm
  Place: Electrical Engineering Building 105
  Speaker: Prof. Asu Ozdagla
  Title: Approximate Primal Solutions and Rate Analysis for Subgradient Methods
  

• Date: Tuesday, April 29, 12:30am
  Speaker: Paul D. Frank, Boeing Corp.
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Systems of Systems Optimization Formulations with Application to Aircraft Selection and Design
  

• Date: Friday, May 9, 2:30pm
  Place: Electrical Engineering Building 105
  Speaker: Prof. Mario Sznaier
  Title: Some Non Traditional Applications of Control Theory (or why should I attend a control talk if I'm not a systems person?)
  

• Date: May 10-13
  Conference: SIAM Conference on Optimization
  Place: Boston
  Local Speakers: Jonathan Cross, Julie Eaton, Qiuying Lin, Liang Xu
  

• Date: May 17-18
  Conference: West Coast Optimization Meeting
  Place: Padelford C-401
  

• Date: Tuesday, May 27, 12:30am
  Speaker: Chris Ryan, UBC
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: Algebraic Methods in Discrete Bilevel Optimization
  

• Date: Tuesday, June 3, 12:30am
  Speaker: Ting Kei Pong, University of Washington
  Place: Padelford C-401
  Title: ESDP Relaxation for Sensor Network Localization
  

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