Month: July 2017

With the ILAS 2017 meet going on at Iowa State University, we had the privilege of inviting two young researchers to give a talk to our audience.

Details of the first talk are as follows:

Date: 28 Jul 2017
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Location:
3043 ECpE Building Addition

Speaker: Ju Sun, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

Title: “When Are Nonconvex Optimization Problems Not Scary?”

For more details, check the department website.

Details for the second talk are as follows:

Date: 28 Jul 2017
Time: 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Location:
3043 ECpE Building Addition

Speaker: Ludwig Schmidt, PhD student at MIT

Title: Faster Constrained Optimization via Approximate Projections (tentative)

Refreshments (food and coffee) will be provided! Join us!