Schedule

A single-track day of talks. Times are Pacific. All talks take place in JOY 117; breaks are in the adjacent hallway and foyer.

Time	Speaker	Title
08:50	Opening remarks
09:00	1. Zhaosong Lu University of Minnesota	First-order methods for nonconvex–nonconcave minimax optimization under a local Kurdyka–Łojasiewicz condition
09:30	2. Vasilis Charisopoulos University of Washington	Local Linear Convergence of Gradient Methods for Overparameterized Gaussian Mixtures
10:00	3. Konstantin Golobokov University of Washington	Aggregate Proximal Method for Structured Stochastic Optimization: Convergence and Manifold Identification
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	4. Milagros Loreto University of Washington Bothell	Delayed Weighted Subgradient Method (DWSM)
11:30	5. Yves Lucet University of British Colubmia Okanagan	Exact Conjugation and Biconjugation of Nonconvex Piecewise Linear-Quadratic Functions
12:00	Lunch
13:00	6. Matthew Scott University of British Columbia	Qualification-free duality via reduction to the joint supporting subspace
13:30	7. Shan Liu University of Washington	Geospatial Healthcare Resource Allocation Problems with Optimization
14:00	8. Thomas Humphries University of Washington Bothell	Superiorization-Based Computed Tomography Reconstruction using Neural Networks
14:30	Coffee break
15:00	9. Jeremy Chiu Simon Fraser University	Identifying patients experiencing homelessness in health administrative data with positive-unlabelled learning
15:30	10. Gian-Gabriel Garcia University of Washington	An Optimize-then-Classify Framework for Designing Population-level Treatment Guidelines
16:00	11. Aleksandr Aravkin University of Washington	Generalized Raking: Formulation, Extensions, and Software
16:25	Closing remarks