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Location
This workshop will be held at The Hamner Center in RTP.
Description
The focus of the 2017 Spring Workshop has not yet been determined, please re-visit our site for updates.
Schedule and Supporting Media
Speakers and Working Groups
WG I (Stat Inverse problems): Ahmed Attia, Lars Ruthotto
WG II (E/M and M/M algorithms) Eric Chi
WG III (Sums of Squares) Sercan Yildiz
WG IV (Bayesian Opt + decision) Mike West, Michael Lindon
WG V (MIPDECO) Joey Hart, Sven Leyffer
WG VI (Equilibirum) Shu Lu
WG VII (Energy & Environment) Peter Diao
WG IX (Small Area Stat) Ekkehard Sachs, Stefan Geisen
WG X (Radiotherapy): Melissa Gaddy
WG XI (Fast Statistics) Xiaoming Huo
WG XII (Electronic structure) Jianfeng Lu
WG XIII (Minimum action principle for multi-physics problems) Jianfeng Lu
Supporting Media
Participants
Printable Schedule
Speaker Titles/Abstracts
Poster Titles/Abstracts
Monday, May 1, 2017
The Hamner Center, Congressional Rm
| Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome and Introduction | Ilse Ipsen, SAMSI Associate Director | ||
| On The Pervasiveness of Difference-Convexity in Optimization and Statistics | Jong Shi Pang, Univeristy of Southern California | ||
| Optimization and Applications in Statistics | Ekkehard Sachs, Universität Trier (GER) | ||
| Efficient Calibration of Alaton’s Weather Derivatives Model by an Adjoint Technique | Stefan Geisen, Universität Trier (GER) | ||
| Optimal Experimental Design for Constrained Inverse Problems | Lars Ruthotto, Emory University | ||
| Goal-Oriented Optimal Design of Experiments for Bayesian Linear Inverse Problems | Ahmed Attia, SAMSI | ||
| Optimization Algorithms for Convex Regression | Eric Chi, N.C. State | ||
| Poster Reception |
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
The Hamner Center, Congressional Rm
| Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distributionally-Robust Optimization for Energy and Environment | Peter Diao, SAMSI | ||
| Mixed-Integer PDE Constrained Optimization | Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory | ||
| Exploiting Problem Structure in Mixed-Integer PDE-Constrained Optimization | Joey Hart, N.C. State | ||
| Optimization of Non-uniformly Fractionated Radiotherapy Treatments | Melissa Gaddy, N.C. State | ||
| Statistical Inference for Sample Average Approximation of Constrained Optimization and Variational Inequalities | Shu Lu, UNC-Chapel Hill | ||
| Polynomial Optimization with Sum-of-Squares Interpolants | Sercan Yildiz, SAMSI | ||
| Statistically and Numerically Efficient Independence Test | Xiaoming Huo, Georgia Tech |
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The Hamner Center, Congressional Rm
| Description | Speaker | Slides | Videos |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Projected Proximal Gradient Algorithm for Bayesian Variable Selection | Michael Lindon, Duke | ||
| Optimization-based Methods in Bayesian Dynamic Models, Variable Selection and Decisions | Mike West, Duke | ||
| Two Optimization Problems from Computational Materials Science | Jianfeng Lu, Duke | ||
| ADJOURN |
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