Distinguished Seminar in Optimization & Data (DSOD)
I am a co-organizer of the Distinguished Seminar in Optimization & Data (DSOD), an interdepartmental talks series at the University of Washington, focused on all aspects of optimization and data science. The speakers of 2023 (see website for details):Date | Speaker | Title |
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1/9/23 | Éva Tardos, Cornell University | Stability and Learning in Strategic Queueing Systems |
4/3/23 | Damek Davis, Cornell University | Leveraging "partial" smoothness for faster convergence in nonsmooth optimization |
5/1/23 | Misha Belkin, University of California, San Diego | The Challenges of Training Infinitely Large Neural Networks |
5/22/23 | Philippe Rigollet, MIT | Statistical applications of Wasserstein gradient flows |
6/5/23 | Ting-Kei Pong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University | The Challenges of Training Infinitely Large Neural Networks |
Machine learning and optimization seminar (ML-OPT)
The machine learning and optimization seminar is a venue for internal and external speakers to present their work on machine learning and data science. It takes place every Friday at 1:30 pm and is primarily intended for graduate students and post-docs to publicize their work. Join the mailing list here. This seminar is supported by the Institute for the Foundations of Data Science (IFDS), an NSF program I am a co-PI of. Please drop me an email if you think you may want to speak at this seminar.