2019 Workshop

2019 WORKSHOP on

Variational Analysis and Optimization

Organizers

Scientific Objectives

The workshop will feature a series of presentations on convex analysis, nonsmooth analysis and optimization, ranging from monotone operator theory, optimal control to numerical optimization algorithms. Variational analysis and optimization are central areas of science and engineering and at the heart of recent progress on machine learning and other areas. This workshop will bring together a mix of local and international, junior and senior researchers of diverse backgrounds. Optimization is one of the disciplines in the multi-disciplinary area of machine learning which also draws researchers from statistics and computer science.

Time and Place

August 12-13, 2019 at UBC Okanagan.

All talks will be in LIB 312. (LIB = Library)

Registration is free but email Heinz Bauschke so that we can plan accordingly for ordering food etc.

Participants (confirmed - this list will be updated regularly)

Schedule

In the following, "Monday" refers to Monday August 12,
and "Tuesday" stands for Tuesday August 13.

Monday, 8:55-9:00: Opening remarks
Monday, 9:00-9:35: Stephen Simons: Quasidense multifunctions
Monday, 9:35-10:10: Mau Nam Nguyen: Rockafellar's Theorem on Relative Interiors of Convex Graphs
Monday, 10:10-10:30: Coffee break
Monday, 10:30-11:05: Walaa Moursi: Recent progress in splitting methods
Monday, 11:05-11:40: Jon Vanderwerff: Generic Properties of Uniformly of Monotone Operators and Related Classes
Monday, 11:40-12:15: Yalcin Kaya: Projection Methods for Optimal Control
Monday, 12:15-1:00: Lunch
Monday, 1:00-1:35: Boris Mordukhovich: Variational Analysis of Composite Models with Applications to Continuous Optimization
Monday, 1:35-2:10: Julie Zhou: Constructing R-optimal designs via interior point method Constructing R-optimal designs via interior point method
Monday, 2:10-2:45: Jane Ye: On solving bilevel programming problems
Monday, 2:45-3:15: Coffee break
Monday, 3:15-3:50 Nghia Tran: On the uniqueness of optimal solutions
Monday, 3:50-4:25: John Braun: Data Sharpening: Using Optimization to Lie with Statistics
Monday, 5:30: Pickup from the H-lot by bus for supper at the Eldorado.
Tuesday, 9:00-9:35: Xiaoqi Yang: Group sparse optimization via regularization
Tuesday, 9:35-10:10: Yunier Bello-Cruz: Circumcentering reflections
Tuesday, 10:10-10:30: Coffee break
Tuesday, 10:30-11:05: Hung Phan: Adaptive Douglas-Rachford splitting for the sum of two operators
Tuesday, 11:05-11:40: Sedi Bartz: Multi-marginal maximal monotonicity and convex analysis
Tuesday, 11:40-12:15: Regina Burachik: On Bregman-type distances for convex functions and maximally monotone operators
Tuesday, 12:15-1:00: Lunch
Tuesday, 1:00-1:35: Michel Thera: Two non-linear generalizations of Neumann's Lemma
Tuesday, 1:35-2:10: Gerald Beer: Real-valued Lipschitz functions and metric properties of functions
Tuesday, 2:10-2:45: Minh Bui: On proximal iterations
Tuesday, 2:45-3:15: Coffee break
Tuesday, 3:15-3:50: Scott Lindstrom: On the Projected Polar Proximal Point Algorithm
Tuesday, 3:50-4:25: Warren Moors: Weak Compactness, Fragmentability and Variational Analysis

Accommodation

Some rooms are reserved in the residences on campus. If you wish to take these rooms, then register by June 26 at UBC Okanagan campus residences or call (888) 318-8666 and quote "Variational Analysis Math".
An alternative to UBCO residences is the Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport hotel which is close to campus but likely full.
There is always Airbnb.

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