OPTEC - K.U.Leuven Center of Excellence: Optimization in Engineering

"OPTEC MANET Workshop on Tensors and Large Scale Optimization"

This internal workshop brings together OPTEC professors, postdocs, and a few PhD students that are interested in Tensors and in Large Scale Optimization Algorithms. Each of the present professors gives a 10 minute statement on large scale optimization problems and algorithms in his/her group.
The workshop is related to OPTEC's Special Interest Groups on "Tensors and Optimization" (coordinated by Lieven De Lathauwer) and "Distributed and Parallel Methods for Optimization" (coordinated by Toon van Waterschoot), as well as to the GOA project MANET. The workshop will reserve 50% of its time for discussions. Aim is to find synergies between the groups.

Program so far:

12:00 Joint Alma lunch for all who like to join

14:00 Start and introduction
14:10 Lieven De Lathauwer: Tensor Optimization Problems
14:20 Discussion
14:30 Johan Suykens: Large Scale Optimization in Machine Learning
14:40 Discussion
14:50 Moritz Diehl: Distributed Optimization Algorithms
15:00 Discussion
15:10 Toon van Waterschoot: Distributed Optimization Problems in Signal Processing
15:20 Discussion

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Sabine Van Huffel: Tensor Optimization in Biomedical Applications
16:10 Discussion
16:20 Alexander Bertrand: Consensus-based Distributed Total Least Squares Estimation in Ad-hoc Networks
16:35 Laurent Sorber: Efficient Algorithms for Tensor Decompositions
16:50 Sam Weckx: Distributed Optimization in Smart Grid Applications
17:05 Marco Signoretto: Learning Tensor-based Models with Structure-inducing Penalties 
17:20 future planning of cooperations and wrap up
18:00 end 

Workshop Organizers: Lieven De Lathauwer, Toon van Waterschoot, Moritz Diehl