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Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Department of Electrical Engineering (UW)

Department of Mathematics (UW)

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

SCHEDULE

Savery Hall, room 260

See the abstracts of invited talks.

8:00 - 8:30 Light Breakfast

• Morning Session (8:30 - 11:50)
  • 8:30 - 8:40: Welcome

  • 8:40 - 8:55: Congratulations from Adrian Lewis and Michael Overton by skype

  • 8:55 - 9:35: Michael Friedlander (UC Davis)
                       "Scaled proximal operators"

  • 9:35 - 10:15: Heinz Bauschke (UBC Okanagan)
                       "On the Douglas-Rachford algorithm"

  • 10:15 - 10:30: Coffee Break

  • 10:30 - 11:10: Drew Kouri (Sandia)
                       "A Data-Driven Approach to PDE-Constrained Optimization under Uncertainty"

  • 11:10 - 11:50: Brad Bell (U. Washington)
                       "The Newton Step Method for Algorithmic Differentiation with Implicit Functions"

• 11:50 - 1:30: Lunch Break

• Afternoon Session (1:30 - 5:05)
  • 1:30 - 2:10: Michael Ferris (Wisconsin)
                       "Quadratic Support Functions and Extended Mathematical Programs "

  • 2:10 - 2:50: Sasha Aravkin (U. Washington)
                       "Conjugate Interior Point Method for Large-Scale Problems"

  • 2:50 - 3:10: Coffee Break

  • 3:10 - 3:50: Jorge Moré (Argonne)
                      "Computational Noise: Uncertainty and Sensitivity"
    

  • 3:50 - 4:30: Dima Drusvyatskiy (U. Washington)
                      "Expanding the reach of optimal methods"
    

  • 4:30 - 4:35: Discussion