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	Zhaosong Lu University of Minnesota	First-order methods for nonconvex–nonconcave minimax optimization under a local Kurdyka–Łojasiewicz condition
09:30	Vasilis Charisopoulos University of Washington	Local Linear Convergence of Gradient Methods for Overparameterized Gaussian Mixtures
10:00	Konstantin Golobokov University of Washington	Aggregate Proximal Method for Structured Stochastic Optimization: Convergence and Manifold Identification
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Milagros Loreto University of Washington Bothell	Barzilai-Borwein Steps (BB-steps) for Solving Nonsmooth Optimization Problems
11:30	Yves Lucet University of British Colubmia Okanagan	Exact Conjugation and Biconjugation of Nonconvex Piecewise Linear-Quadratic Functions
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Shan Liu University of Washington	Geospatial Healthcare Resource Allocation Problems with Optimization
13:30	Thomas Humphries University of Washington Bothell	Superiorization-Based Computed Tomography Reconstruction using Neural Networks
14:00	Jeremy Chiu Simon Fraser University	TBD
14:30	Coffee break
13:00	Aleksandr Aravkin University of Washington	Generalized Raking: Formulation, Extensions, and Software
15:30	Gian-Gabriel Garcia University of Washington	An Optimize-then-Classify Framework for Designing Population-level Treatment Guidelines
14:00	Michael Friedlander University of British Columbia	TBD
14:25	Closing remarks