Modern Nonsmooth Optimization

A Workshop in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Adrian Lewis

Location & Time

Bill and Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science and Engineering (Gates Center) in the Zillow Commons (fourth floor)

University of Washington, Seattle

Tues Aug 9 and Wed Aug 10 ( 9am - 5pm )

Magnuson Cafe and Brewery

Tues Aug 9 (6pm - 10pm)

Click here for the tentative schedule

Confirmed Speakers

Name	Title of Presentation	Institution	Abstract Link
Aris Daniilidis	Determining a Function via the Modulus of its Derivative	TU Wien	View
Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy	Adrian Lewis: Greatest Hits	University of Washington	View
Robert M. Freund	Using Taylor-Approximated Gradients to Improve the Frank-Wolfe method for Empirical Risk Minimization	MIT Sloan School of Management	View
Warren Hare	Positive Basis: Usage, Analysis, and Construction	University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus	View
Tim Hoheisel	The Maximum Entropy on the Mean Method for Inverse Problems	McGill University	View
Alexander Ioffe	On Necessary Conditions in Calculus of Variations	Technion - Israel Institute of Technilogy	View
Genaro López	Adrian's Insight into Optimization in Geodesic Spaces	Seville University	View
Russell Luke	Transport Discrepancy: Results and Applications	Georg-August University of Goettingen	View
Boris Mordukhovich	Globally Convergent Coderivative-Based Generalized Newton Methods in Nonsmooth Optimization	Wayne State University	View
Adriana Nicolae	Local Linear Convergence of Alternating Projections	Babes-Bolyai University	View
Courtney Paquette	Stochastic Algorithms in the Large: Batch Size Saturation, Stepsize Criticality, and Exact Dynamics	McGill University	View
Andy Philpott	Distributionally Robust Sample-Average Approximation	University of Auckland	View
Terry Rockafellar	Multipler Methods and Splitting in Convex Optimization	University of Washington	View
Claudia Sagastizábal	Projective Bundle Methods	IMECC-Unicamp	View
Nathalie Sinclair	À la recherche du Fromage perdu	Simon Fraser University	View
Steve Wright	Randomized Kaczmarz algorithms: Accelerated and Asynchronous	University of Wisconsin-Madison	View

Other Participants

Sasha Aravkin, University of Washington
Julia Eaton, University of Washington, Tacoma Campus
Maryam Fazel, University of Washington
Kellie MacPhee, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mikhail Solodov, IMPA
Shahriar Talebi, University of Washington
Zhuoyu Xiao, University of Victoria

Organizers

James V Burke (Washington), Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy (Washington), Michael L. Overton (N.Y.U.)