Francqui Chair (ULg 2011-2012): Yurii Nesterov (UCL)

If you plan to attend one or more of these lectures please register.

Workshop

February 17, 2012
9:30 - 12:30 -- Salle académique, Liège

Speakers:

• 9h30-10h15: Etienne de Klerk (Tilburg University)
• 10h45-11h30: Alexandre d'Aspremont (École Polytechnique, Paris)
• 11h30-12h15: Michel Baes (ETH Zürich)

Details

Public lecture

February 17, 2012
15:00 -- Salle académique, Liège

Algorithmic Challenges in Optimization
Mathematical Point of View

Main course

February 24, 2012 - March 23, 2012
10:30 - 12:30 -- Institut Montefiore, building B28, room R7

• 24/02: Intrinsic complexity of Black-Box Optimization
• 02/03: Looking into the Black Box (Structural Optimization)
• 09/03: Huge-scale optimization problems
• 16/03: Nonlinear analysis of combinatorial problems
• 23/03: Algorithmic models of human behavior

Yurii Nesterov

Yurii Nesterov is an internationally recognized expert in convex optimization, specifically in the development and analysis of efficient algorithms for numerical optimization. He is currently professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL).