Talks
Slides of Recent/Selected Talks
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A Weak Tail-Bound Probabilistic Condition for Function Estimation in Stochastic Derivative-Free Optimization (with Improved Sample Sizing)
12th US-Mexico Workshop on Optimization and its Applications, Steve Wright’s “60th” Birthday, January 11, 2023
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A Review of Multi-Objective Optimization: Theory and Algorithms
Optimization and Machine Learning (OptML) Research Group, ISE Department, Lehigh University, April 1, 2020
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Trust-Region Methods for the Derivative-Free Optimization of Nonsmooth Black-Box Functions
ICOTA 2019, Xiangtan University (talk not delivered), dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of Professor Ya-xiang Yuan
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Stochastic Optimization of
Multiple Objectives and Supervised Machine Learning
Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh, November 14, 2019
- Direct Search based on Probabilistic Feasible Descent for Bound and Linearly Constrained Problems
FoCM 2017, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Barcelona, July 17, 2017
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Recent Progress on Derivative-Free Trust-Region Methods
Sapienza — Università di Roma, June 28, 2016
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Direct Search based on Probabilistic Descent
Computational Mathematics and Applications Seminars, University of Oxford, January 23, 2014
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Optimization in … 45 Minutes
Presentation given in Coimbra in 2013
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Sparse Hessian Recovery and Trust-Region Methods based on Probabilistic Models
3rd Conference on Optimization Methods and Software, Chania, Greece, May 16, 2012.
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Direct Search for Multiobjective Optimization
Journées de l’Optimisation / Optimization Days, Montréal, Canada, May 4, 2011.
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Interpolation-Based Trust-Region Methods for DFO
ICCOPT 2010, Santiago, Chile, July 27, 2010
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Are we Pushing Direct Search to its Limit?
Advanced Methods and Perspectives in Nonlinear Optimization and Control, RTRA STAE Workshop, CERFACS, Toulouse, February 3, 2010
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A Globally Convergent Primal-Dual
Interior-Point Filter Method
for Nonlinear Programming (ipfilter):
New Filter Optimality Measures and Computational Results
OPTEC, K.U. Leuven, December 2, 2008
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Derivative-Free Optimization: Theory and Practice
(co-authored with Charles Audet)
Mini-tutorial, Ninth SIAM Conference on Optimization, Boston, USA, May 10, 2008