Week 8 - Friday, 28^th July

24 Jul 2017

Data Science Reading Group Seminars – Invited Talks

In our 11^th meet on Friday, instead of our routine talks, we hosted invited speakers Ju Sun and Ludwig Schmidt as a part of Data Science Reading Group Seminars. Details below :

Talk 1 – 2 - 3:30 pm, Coover 3043

Speaker : Ju Sun, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University

Title : “When Are Nonconvex Optimization Problems Not Scary?”

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Talk 2 – 3:45 - 5:15 pm, Coover 3043

Speaker : Ludwig Schmidt, PhD student at MIT

Title : Faster Constrained Optimization via Approximate Projections (tentative)