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Spring 2012

Date Speaker Title
01/31/2012 Cuong Ngo Minimizing a quadratic over a sphere
02/07/2012 Hongyan Hou Convergence Analysis for Pseudospectral Methods in Optimal Control
02/14/2012 Cameron Browne Modeling Within-Host Virus Dynamics: The standard model, applications, and extensions.
02/21/2012 Maryam Yashtini A fast algorithm for sparse reconstruction based on shrinkage, subspace optimization and continuation
02/28/2012 Roberta De Asmundis On spectral properties of steepest descent methods
03/20/2012 Delphine Mico Estimating the Violation of the KKT Conditions
03/27/2012 Professor Guanghui Lan Stochastic First- and Zero-order Methods for Nonconvex Stochastic Programming
04/03/2012 James Hungerford Edge Directions in Polyhedral Optimization Part 1
04/10/2012 James Hungerford Edge Directions in Polyhedral Optimization Part 2
04/17/2012 Maryam Yashtini Bregman Operator Splitting With Variable Stepsize For Total Variation Image Reconstruction

Fall 2011

Date Speaker Title
09/7/2011 James Hungerford A Continuous Multilevel Solver for the Vertex Separator Problem
09/21/2011 Maryam Yasthini The Bregman Operator Splitting With Barzilia/Borwein Step Size for Image Reconstruction
10/5/2011 James Hungerford Local Optimality Conditions for Weakly Concave Quadratic Programs
10/26/2011 Delphine Mico Estimating the Violation of the KKT Conditions

Spring 2011

Date Speaker Title
01/26/2011 James Hungerford Solving a Projection Problem Using Lagrangian Duality
02/09/2011 Maryam Yashtini A Unified Primal-Dual Algorithm Framework Based on Bregman Iteration
02/21/2011 Prof. Gilbert Strang Fast Transforms: Banded Matrices With Banded Inverses
02/28/2011 Prof. Asen Dontchev Constrained Spline Interpolation
03/16/2011 Prof. Pando Georgiev Continuous selections, quasi-variational inequalities and generalized Nash equilibrium problems for lower semi-continuous strategy maps
03/30/2011 Olivia Prosper Assessing the Role of Spatial Heterogeneity and Human Movement in Malaria Dynamics and Malaria Control