Event Announcement:
Optimization and Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium)
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1-3, 2013
Website + Registration:
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data
No registration fee thanks to EPSRC funding (Mathematics for Vast
Digital Resources + The Centre for Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent
Software)
May 1-2: Workshop
Confirmed speakers:
Olivier Fercoq (Edinburgh)
Robert Freund (MIT)
Jacek Gondzio (Edinburgh)
Zaid Harchaoui (INRIA)
Desmond Higham (Strathclyde)
Martin Jaggi (Ecole Polytechnique)
Anatoli Juditsky (Joseph Fourier)
Imre Polik (SAS)
Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh)
Richard Samworth (Cambridge)
Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Jerusalem)
Martin Takac (Edinburgh)
Steve Wright (Wisconsin-Madison)
+ Poster Session (best student/postdoc poster wins an iPad mini -
sponsored by SAS)
May 3:
Morning: Trek to Arthur's Seat (a 350m years old extinct volcano in the
city centre)
Afternoon: Colloquium Talk by Steve Wright, Best Poster Award Ceremony,
Networking Reception
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