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Spring 2013 – VIGRE Seminar

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