MIT CDO Events
Previous Seminars
Streaming video is available for most of the CDO Distinguished Speaker seminars. To view the videos, click on the "watch video" links below. RealPlayer 8 or higher is required for viewing.
Spring 2008 Seminars
Conversion Methods for Large Scale SDPs to Exploit Their Structured
Sparsity (May 14, 2008)
Masakazu Kojima
Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Interior-point and Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Semidefinite
Programming (May 7, 2008)
Kim Chuan Toh
Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
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Bodies Interacting With and Through Fluids (April 16, 2008)
Michael Shelley
Department of Mathematics, the Courant Institute, New York University
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A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto (February 13, 2008)
David Keyes
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
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Fall 2007 Seminars
Optimization of Noisy Functions: Application to Simulations (December 12, 2007)
Michael C. Ferris
Department of Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Computation and Application of Balanced Model Order Reduction (November 14, 2007)
Dan Sorensen
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
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Unified Hybridization of Mixed, Discontinuous and Continuous Galerkin Methods for Second-Order Elliptic Problems (October 10, 2007)
Bernardo Cockburn
Program in Applied, Computational and Industrial Mathematics
University of Minnesota
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Spring 2007 Seminars
Control of Hybrid Systems: Theory, Computation and Applications (May 9, 2007)
Manfred Morari
Automatic Control Laboratory
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
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Diffusion and Biased Diffusion on a Lattice: Building Models and Replacing
Monte Carlo Simulations by “Exact” Numerical Calculations (March 14, 2007)
Gary Slater
Department of Physics
University of Ottawa
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Adjoint Based Optimization Methods (March 7, 2007)
Andreas Griewank
Institut für Mathematik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Fall 2006 Seminars
Learning from Data: Theory, Engineering Applications and Neuroscience (October 11, 2006)
Tomaso Poggio
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Systems (September 13, 2006)
Linda Petzold
Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Spring 2006 Seminars
Very Large Scale Non-linear Optimization and the Ocean Circulation (May 10, 2006)
Carl Wunsch
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Model Reduction by Adaptive Discretization in Solving Optimal Control Problems (April 12, 2006)
Rolf Rannacher
Institut für Angewandte Mathematik
Universität Heidelberg
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Probabilistic Analysis of SDP Relaxation for Binary Quadratic
Minimization with Application to Wireless Communication (March 8, 2006)
Tom Luo
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota
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A Logic-based Framework for Discrete-Continuous Optimization of Process Systems (February 8, 2006)
Ignacio E. Grossmann
Department of Chemical Engineering
Cargnegie Mellon University
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Fall 2005 Seminars
Solving Very Large-Scale Convex Optimization Problems: A Return to Subgradient Type Method (December 14, 2005)
Aharon Ben-Tal
MINERVA Optimization Center
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
(visiting MIT Sloan School of Management, 2005-2006)
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Computational Molecular Design (October 12, 2005)
Bernhardt Trout
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A PDE-Constrained Optimization Approach To Large-Scale Earthquake Inversion (September 14, 2005)
Omar Ghattas
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
University of Texas at Austin (Departments of Geological Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Sciences)
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