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Spring Western Sectional Meeting
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
April 22-23, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1128

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Special Session on Recent Advances in Optimization and Statistical Learning

• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Optimization and Statistical Learning, I
  Room 216, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hongbo Dong, Washington State University hongbo.dong@wsu.edu
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
  Haijun Li, Washington State University
  Robert Mifflin, Washington State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Structural properties of affine sparsity constraints.
    Hongbo Dong, Washington State University
    Miju Ahn, University of Southern California
    Jong-Shi Pang*, University of Southern California
    (1128-90-297)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Accelerated first-order methods beyond convexity.
    Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy*, University of Washington
    (1128-90-108)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Interior point methods for two-stage stochastic semidefinite programming in dual standard form.
    Bo Han*, ProCogia
    Hongbo Dong, Washington State Univeristy
    Ari Ariyawansa, Pullman, Washington
    (1128-90-259)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tail Mutual Information of Multivariate Distributions.
    Yan Xing*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,Washington State University
    (1128-62-107)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Optimization and Statistical Learning, II
  Room 216, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hongbo Dong, Washington State University hongbo.dong@wsu.edu
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
  Haijun Li, Washington State University
  Robert Mifflin, Washington State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Compositions of Convex Functions and Fully Linear Models.
    Warren Hare*, University of British Columbia
    (1128-49-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Robust optimization of infrastructure networks.
    Krishnamurthy Dvijotham*, Pacifc Northwest National Laboratory/Washington State University
    (1128-93-213)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Faster estimation and calculation of standard errors for vine copulas with automatic differentiation.
    Hongbo Dong*, Washington State University
    Wei Li, Washington State University
    Haijun Li, Washington State University
    (1128-62-215)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Sparse model selection for high-dimensional vine copulas via penalized optimization.
    Wei Li*, Department of Math and Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman
    Hongbo Dong, Department of Math and Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman
    Haijun Li, Department of Math and Statistics, Washington State University, Everett
    (1128-00-268)

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