IEOR Seminar: Vasilis Charisopoulos, Cornell University
1174 Etcheverry Hall 1174 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CaliforniaTalk Title: A superlinearly convergent first-order method for nonsmooth optimization Abstract: Nonsmooth optimization problems appear throughout machine learning and signal processing. However, standard first-order methods for nonsmooth optimization can be…
Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture — How Complex Is Complexity? Or What’s a ‘Meta’ for?
Calvin Lab Auditorium and Zoom University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United StatesAbstract: The fundamental open questions in complexity theory have resisted our best efforts for more than half a century. But is there any reason to believe that it is fundamentally difficult to show that certain problems are hard to compute? In other words, what is the computational complexity of computational complexity? This question lies at the…
Berkeley IEOR Alumni Mixer
David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, California, United StatesJoin us on the evening of Wednesday, February 8 for an alumni celebration! This alumni mixer is complimentary for Berkeley alumni and guests. The mixer will feature a talk by…