Birs- 17w5159: Beyond Convexity: Emerging Challenges in Data Science

  1. Title:
    Optimization challenges from robust statistics
    Speaker:
    Po-Ling Loh

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710231504-Loh.html

  2. Title:
    Nonconvex optimization in deep learning
    Speaker:
    Srinadh Bhojanapalli

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710231631-Bhojanapalli.html

  3. Title:
    Sketchy Decisions
    Speaker:
    Joel Tropp

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710240906-Tropp.html

  4. Title:
    Maximum Likelihood Estimation under Total Positivity
    Speaker:
    Elina Robeva

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710241000-Robeva.html

  5. Title:
    First Order Methods Beyond Smoothness and Convexity
    Speaker:
    Marc Teboulle

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710241432-Teboulle.html

  6. Title:
    Learning Developmental Landscapes from Single Cell Gene Expression with Optimal Transport
    Speaker:
    Geoff Schiebinger

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710241531-Schiebinger.html

  7. Title:
    Variable selection and prediction with presence-only data
    Speaker:
    Garvesh Raskutti

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710250907-Raskutti.html

  8. Title:
    'New Sh*t Has Come To Light': Perspectives on Integer Programming for Sparse Optimization
    Speaker:
    Jeff Linderoth

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710250955-Linderoth.html

  9. Title:
    A Framework for Globally Convergent Methods in Nonsmooth and Nonconvex Optimization
    Speaker:
    Shoham Sabach

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710251050-Sabach.html

  10. Title:
    Dissipativity Theory for Algorithm Analysis
    Speaker:
    Laurent Lessard

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710251140-Lessard.html

  11. Title:
    Matrix Estimation via Collaborative Filtering
    Speaker:
    Devavrat Shah

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710260904-Shah.html

  12. Title:
    Complexity analysis of second-order algorithms based on line search for smooth nonconvex optimization
    Speaker:
    Clement Royer

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710260954-Royer.html

  13. Title:
    Worst-Case Complexity Guarantees and Nonconvex Smooth Optimization
    Speaker:
    Frank E. Curtis

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710261337-Curtis.html

  14. Title:
    A Gentle, Geometric Introduction to Copositive Optimization
    Speaker:
    Sam Burer

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710270904-Burer.html

  15. Title:
    Convex (?) Co-Clustering of Tensors
    Speaker:
    Eric Chi

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710270949-Chi.html

  16. Title:
    Matrix Completion with Non-Linear Models
    Speaker:
    Greg Ongie

    Link:
    http://www.birs.ca/events/2017/5-day-workshops/17w5159/videos/watch/201710271102-Ongie.html