Talks
- ”Using Random Models in Derivative Free Optimization“, invited semiplenary talk, ISMP 2012, Berlin, Germany (Here is the link to pdf which does not contain movies, and here is the link to powerpoint which contains movies but may mess up math formulas.)
- ”Fast First-order Methods for Convex Optimization with Line Search“ , ERGO seminar, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012
- ”First-order Optimization Methods for Sparse Inverse Covariance Selection“, Temple University, Computer Science Department seminar, Philadelphia, PA, 2012
- ”Optimization Problems in Machine Learning“, EWO Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, 2012
- ”Recovering Structure and Using Random Models in Derivative Free Optimization“, Numerical Analysis seminar, New York University, New York, NY, 2011