2013 PKU Workshop On Optimization and Data Sciences

Date:

December 22, 2013

Venue:

Lecture Hall, Jia Yi Bing Building, 82 Jing Chun Yuan, BICMR
北京大学镜春园82号甲乙丙楼二层报告厅

Directions to BICMR

Organizers:

• Yaxiang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Naihua Xiu, Beijing Jiaotong University

• Wotao Yin, University of California, Los Angeles

• Zaiwen Wen, Peking University

Sponsors:

• Beijing International Center For Mathematical Research, Peking University

• National Natural Science Foundation of China

• The Applied Mathematics Educational Lab, Peking University

Contact:

Zaiwen Wen
Phone   +86-10-62744125
Email   wenzw@math.pku.edu.cn

Program: (link to the detailed program with abstract)

08:40am-08:50am: Opening remarks

08:50am-11:30am: Session 1 (Chair: Naihua Xiu)

• 08:50am-09:25am: Wotao Yin
  Sparse regularization by evolving the l1 subgradient

• 09:25am-10:00am: Lingchen Kong
  Optimization in censored quantile regression

• 10:00am-10:35am: Li Gao
  An Uzawa-type algorithm for non-symmetric saddle point problems

• 10:35am-11:10am: Yafeng Liu
  Joint Power and Admission Control

• 11:10am-11:30am: Panel discussions
  
  

01:00pm-03:40pm: Session 2 (Chair: Wotao Yin)

• 01:00pm-01:35pm: Yuhong Dai
  Unconstrained Optimization Models for Computing Several Extreme Eigenpairs of Real Symmetric Matrices

• 01:35pm-02:10pm: Zhouchen Lin
  Linearized alternating direction method: two blocks and multiple blocks

• 02:10pm-02:45pm: Ruibin Xi
  Computational analyses of high-throughput sequencing data

• 02:45pm-03:05pm: Panel discussions
  
  

03:25pm-05:30pm: Session 3 (Chair: Yuhong Dai)

• 03:25pm-04:00pm: Naihua Xiu
  Exact recovery for sparse signal via weighted l1 minimization

• 04:00pm-04:35pm: Hongchao Zhang
  Stochastic approximation methods for nonconvex stochastic composite optimization

• 04:35pm-05:10pm: Qingna Li
  Lower bound theory for Schatten-p quasi-norm least squares problem

• 05:10pm-05:30pm: Panel discussions