Mini-course on Optimization by Nisheeth Vishnoi, on Dec 9, 2014.

Date : Mon, Dec 1, 2014

Nisheeth Vishnoi, an associate professor at EPFL, Switzerland is visiting our department on the 9th and 10th of December and will teach a mini-course on Convex Optimization and some recent applications to designing fast algorithms (see http://tcs.epfl.ch/page-113873-en.html for a rough outline of the lectures).

Title: Mini-course on Optimization
Speaker: Prof. Nisheeth Vishnoi (EPFL)
Venue: BSB 361
Lecture 1: Tuesday, 9th December 2:30pm - 4pm
Lecture 2: Wednesday, 10th December 10:30am - 12pm
Lecture 3: Wednesday, 10th December 2:30pm - 4pm

The lectures will be loosely based a course Nisheeth offered at EPFL in the fall (see http://tcs.epfl.ch/page-113873-en.html; especially the first three letures).