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Date Monday June 17 2013 till Thursday June 20 2013TimeVenue Included 2 Co31ee Breaks and a Lunch EE Short CourseTopics to be CoveredDue to the limited space RSVP is required byemailing the local coo. Convex functions basic properties and examples operations that preserve convexity the conjugate function quasiconvex functions logconcave and logconvex functions convexity with respect to generalized inequalities 31 brPage 2br De64257nition is co Convex sets a64259ne and convex sets some important examples operations that preserve convexity generalized inequalities separating and supporting hyperplanes dual cones and generalized inequalities 21 brPage 2br A64259ne set line through all Pritam. . Sukumar. & Daphne Tsatsoulis. CS 546: Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing. 1. What is Optimization?. Find the minimum or maximum of an objective function given a set of constraints:. relaxations. via statistical query complexity. Based on:. V. F.. , Will Perkins, Santosh . Vempala. . . On the Complexity of Random Satisfiability Problems with Planted . Solutions.. STOC 2015. V. F.. for Sequential Game Solving. Overview. Sequence-form transformation. Bilinear saddle-point problems. EGT/Mirror . prox. Smoothing techniques for sequential games. Sampling techniques. Some experimental results. Majorization. ANNA . SHTENGEL, Weizmann Institute of Science. ROI PORANNE and OLGA SORKINE-HORNUNG, ETH Zurich. SHAHAR Z. KOVALSKY, Duke University. YARON LIPMAN, Weizmann Institute of . Science. ACM Transactions on Graphics . scalability . improvements . and . applications . to . difference . of convex programming.. Georgina . Hall. Princeton, . ORFE. Joint work with . Amir Ali Ahmadi. Princeton, ORFE. 1. Nonnegative polynomials. Columbia . University. . Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Arbitrary Polynomial Optimization Problems with Applications to Distributed Control, Power Systems, and Matrix Completion. . Joint work with. :. relaxations. via statistical query complexity. Based on:. V. F.. , Will Perkins, Santosh . Vempala. . . On the Complexity of Random Satisfiability Problems with Planted . Solutions.. STOC 2015. V. F.. Georgina . Hall. Princeton, . ORFE. Joint work with . Amir Ali Ahmadi. Princeton, ORFE. 1. 5/4/2016. IBM May 2016. Nonnegative and convex polynomials. A polynomial . is nonnegative if . How does . nonnegativity. Sinusoidal Modeling . for. . Audio . Signal Processing. Michelle Daniels. PhD Student, University of California, San Diego. Outline. Introduction to sinusoidal . modeling. Existing approach. Proposed optimization post-processing. J. McCalley. 1. Real-time. Electricity markets and tools. Day-ahead. SCUC and SCED. SCED. Minimize f(. x. ). s. ubject to. h. (. x. )=. c. g. (. x. ). <. . b. BOTH LOOK LIKE THIS. SCUC: . x. contains discrete & continuous variables.. Objectives. Study the basic components of an . optimization problem. .. Formulation of design problems as mathematical programming problems. . Define . stationary points . Necessary and sufficient conditions for the relative maximum of a function of a single variable and for a function of two variables. . Lecture 2 . Convex Set. CK Cheng. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. University of California, San Diego. Convex Optimization Problem:. 2. . is a convex function. For . , .  .  . Subject to.