Time: Thursday 4:00-5:30PM

Location: DCH 2014

Weeks (Spring 2013)

• 01/09: Organizational meeting.
• 01/17: Wotao Yin, Inverse scale space [slides]
• 01/31: Yin Zhang, Trace-penalty minimization for large-scale eigenspace computation [slides]
• 02/07: Hui Zhang, Uniqueness and robustness conditions in sparse analysis problems [slides]
• 03/07: Ming Yan, Parallel (Block) Coordinate Descent Methods for Big Data Optimization (by P. Richtarik and M. Takac) [slides]
• 03/14: Yangyang Xu, Recent advances of stochastic approximation methods [slides]
• 03/27: Lijun Xu, An Alternating Direction Algorithm for Structure-enforced Matrix Factorization [slides]
• 04/03: Ruru Hao
• 04/04: Zhimin Peng
• 04/11: Jorge Castanon
• 04/18: Zhikai Jiang