Stevin Lecture and visit M. Wright Thursday at 16:00 in Castle
Dear OPTEC Members and Friends,
it is my honour to invite you to the 19th Stevin lecture, given by Margaret Wright of NY's Courant Institute, on derivative free optimization, see the abstract and bio below, or on http://www.kuleuven.be/optec/event/
Professor Wright is with us in Leuven on both June 29 and 30
and has already several appointments with OPTEC members and other Belgian researchers.
If you like to meet with her as well, please contact Boris Houska boris.houska@esat.kuleuven.be
who manages her visit.
Best regards, and looking forward to seeing you on Thursday at 16:00 in the castle!
Moritz Diehl
Thu 30 Jun 2011 16:00-17:15, Auditorium of the Arenberg Castle
19th Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering
"Optimization Without Derivatives: Consensus and Controversies"
Margaret Wright
Computer Science Department
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Abstract
Non-derivative methods for optimization have been widely used with notable success in science and engineering for at least 50 years. Although their mathematical foundations were mostly lacking until the late 1980s, research on the theoretical and computational properties of old and new non-derivative techniques has flourished since then, and continues to grow. A notable feature of this research field is lively disagreement about which methods are ``most effective'', in part because several mathematical questions are unresolved (and perhaps unresolvable). This talk will briefly survey the current state of the art, trying along the way to highlight a few of the interesting open mathematical questions.
Biographical Information
Margaret H. Wright is Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. She received her B.S. (Mathematics) and M.S. and Ph.D. (Computer Science) from Stanford University. Her research interests include optimization, scientific computing, and optimization in real-world applications. Prior to joining NYU, she worked at Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies), where she was named as a Bell Labs Fellow. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1997), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001), and the National Academy of Sciences (2005). During 1995-1996 she served as president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and she has chaired advisory committees for several mathematical sciences institutes and government agencies. In 2000, she received an honorary doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, and she was named as an honorary doctor of technology by the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in 2008.
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