Variational Analysis and Optimisation Webinar Season 2 (Past talks)

This pages contains links to past talks from the Variational Analysis and Optimisation Webinar.

Season 1 (June – November 2020)

Date and Time Speaker Title Video/Slides
June 30th, 2021
17:00 AEST
Andrew Eberhard
(RMIT University)
Bridges between Discrete and Continous Optimisation in Stochastic Programming [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
June 23rd, 2021
17:00 AEST
Adil Bagirov
(Federation University)
Nonsmooth DC optimization: recent developments [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
June 16th, 2021
17:00 AEST
Bruno F. Lourenço
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Error bounds, amenable cones and beyond [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
June 9th, 2021
17:00 AEST
Vuong Phan
(University of Southampton)
The Boosted Difference of Convex Functions Algorithm [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
June 2nd, 2021
17:00 AEST
Scott Lindstrom
(Curtin)
A primal/dual computable approach to improving spiraling algorithms, based on minimizing spherical surrogates for Lyapunov functions [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
May 26th, 2021
17:00 AEST
Guoyin Li
(UNSW)
Proximal methods for nonsmooth and nonconvex fractional programs: when sparse optimization meets fractional programs
May 19th, 2021
17:00 AEST
Yura Malitsky
(Linköping University)
Adaptive gradient descent without descent [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
May 12th, 2021
11:00 AEST
Hung Phan
(UMass Lowell)
Adaptive splitting algorithms for the sum of operators [Video] on Youtube
[Slides]
April 28th, 2021
17:00 AEST
Lyudmila Polyakova
(St-Petersburg State Uni)
Smooth approximations of D.C. functions [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
April 28th, 2021
17:00 AEST
Jiri Outrata
(CAS)
On the solution of static contact problems with Coulomb friction via the semismooth* Newton method [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
April 21st, 2021
17:00 AEST
Ewa Bednarczuk
(WUT and PAS)
On duality for nonconvex minimization problems within the framework of abstract convexity [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
April 14th, 2021
11:00 AEST
Roger Behling
(Fundação Getúlio Vargas)
Circumcentering projection type methods [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
April 7th, 2021
17:00 AEST
Russell Luke
(Uni Göttingen)
Inconsistent Stochastic Feasibility: the Case of Stochastic Tomography [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
March 31st, 2021
11:00 AEDT
Yboon Garcia Ramos
(Uni del Pacífico)
Characterizing quasiconvexity of the pointwise infimum of a family of arbitrary translations of quasiconvex functions [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
March 24th, 2021
17:00 AEDT
Huynh Van Ngai
(Uni of Quy Nhon)
Generalized Nesterov’s accelerated proximal gradient algorithms with convergence rate of order o(1/k2) [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
March 17th, 2021
17:00 AEDT
David Bartl
(Silesian Uni Opava)
Every compact convex subset of matrices is the Clarke Jacobian of some Lipschitzian mapping [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
March 10th, 2021
17:00 AEDT
Alexander Kruger
(Fed Uni)
Error bounds revisited [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
March 3rd, 2021
11:00 AEDT
Javier Peña
(Carnegie-Mellon)
The condition number of a function relative to a set [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
Feb 24th, 2021
17:00 AEDT
Nguyen Duy Cuong
(Fed Uni)
Necessary conditions for transversality properties [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
Feb 17th, 2021
17:00 AEDT
Alexander J. Zaslavski
(Technion)
Subgradient Projection Algorithm with Computational Errors [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]
Feb 10th, 2021
11:00 AEDT
Nam Ho-Nguyen
(USyd)
Coordinate Descent Without Coordinates: Tangent Subspace Descent on Riemannian Manifolds [Video] on Youtube
[Video] on theBOX
[Slides]