{"200901":{"#nid":"200901","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Visiting Guest Speaker","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Optimization in Learning and Data Analysis\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Stephen Wright\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOptimization tools are vital to data analysis and learning. The optimization perspective has provided valuable insights, and optimization formulations have led to practical algorithms with good theoretical properties. In turn, the rich collection of problems in learning and data analysis is providing fresh perspectives on optimization algorithms and is driving new fundamental research in the area. After a brief survey, we focus on several problems --- signal reconstruction, manifold learning, and regression\/classification --- describing in each case recent research in which optimization algorithms have been developed and applied successfully.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELaboratories. Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cs.wisc.edu\/\u0022\u003EComputer Sciences Department\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.engr.wisc.edu\/ie\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E at UW-Madison\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EInvestigator in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/discovery.wisc.edu\/home\/wisconsin\/research\/optimization\/optimization-home.cmsx\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E Optimization Theme\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.discovery.wisc.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E Wisconsin Institute for Discovery\u003C\/a\u003E at UW-Madison.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPast Chair and current Vice Chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mathprog.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMathematical Optimization Society\u003C\/a\u003E (formerly Mathematical Programming Society)\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mathprog.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.siam.org\/prizes\/fellows\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESIAM Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E and Member of the Board of Trustees of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.siam.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESIAM\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMem Professor in the Computer Sciences Department and Industrial and Systems Engineering at UW-Madison\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EInvestigator in the Optimization Theme in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at UW-Madison.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPast Chair and current Vice Chair of the Mathematical Optimization Society (formerly Mathematical Programming Society).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESIAM Fellow and Member of the Board of Trustees of SIAM.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMember of the Science Advisory Board of IPAM.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cs.wisc.edu\/users\/swright\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cs.wisc.edu\/users\/swright\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Visiting Guest Speaker"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2013-03-20 10:55:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:03:00","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-03-25T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-03-25T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-03-25T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-03-25 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-03-25 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-03-25 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EArkadi Nemirovski\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:arkadi.nemirovski@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Earkadi.nemirovski@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}