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Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

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Department of Mathematics (UW)

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

SCHEDULE

Savery Hall room 264

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See the abstracts of invited talks.

8:00 - 8:30 Coffee, Juice, Bagels, Fruit, and Pastries.

• Morning Session Talks (8:30 - 12:00)
  • 8:30 - 8:40: Welcome

  • 8:40 - 9:20: Ben Recht
                       " The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems "

  • 9:20 - 10:00: Chris Aholt, University of Washington
                       " Quadratic Sum of Squares Relaxations "

  • 10:00 - 10:20: Coffee Break

  • 10:20 - 11:00: Mohit Singh, Microsoft Reasearch
                      " Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization "

  • 11:00 - 11:40: Hung Phan, UBC Okanagan
                      " Restricted Normal Cones: Basic Properties and Applications "

• 11:40 - 1:30: Lunch Break

• Afternoon Session (1:30 - 4:30)
  • 1:30 - 2:10: Johannes Royset, The Naval Postgraduate School
                       " Uncertainty quantification using nonparametric estimation and epi-splines "

  • 2:10 - 2:50: Jeff Bilmes, University of Washington
                       " Some Recent Results with Submodular Functions "

  • 2:50 - 3:10: Coffee Break

  • 3:10 - 3:50: Maryam Fazel, University of Washington
                       " Algorithms for rank minimization of structured matrices with applications in system identification and realization "
    

  • 3:50 - 5:30: Discussion