ITALIAN-FRENCH WORKSHOP

Optimization and dynamical processes in statistical learning and inverse problems

September, 8-12, 2014 | Fondazione Mediaterraneo, Sestri Levante (GE), Italia

The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate discussions and possible collaborations between italian and french researchers on the following topics: algorithms on convex optimization and monotone inclusions, fixed-point methods, game theory, interplay between discrete and continuous dynamics, statistical learning theory, big data processing, inverse problems.

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Participants


Program

Monday:

14:50–15:00 : Opening
15:00–15:30 : Cominetti, Sequential averaging for nonexpansive maps
15:30–16:00 : Bonettini, Variable metric first order methods for smooth and nonsmooth optimization
16:00–16:30 : Attouch, A proximal-Newton method for monotone inclusions in Hilbert spaces with complexity O(1/k2)

Tuesday:

09:30–10:00 : Pustelnik, Spectral analysis revisited with optimization techniques
10:00–10:30 : Fadili, Low complexity regularization of inverse problems
10:30–11:00 : Chiuso, Bayesian methods for system identification
11:00–11:30 : Coffee break
11:30–12:00 : Garrigos, Multicriteria optimization some continuous and discrete dynamics
12:00–12:30 : Vũ, A splitting algorithm for coupled systems of primal-dual monotone inclusions

14:30–15:00 : Piana, Two optimization problems in physiology
15:00–15:30 : Villa, Stochastic forward-backward splitting algorithm

Mercoledì – Mercredi:

09:30–10:00 : Bolte, Proximal alternating linearized minimization for semi-algebraic problems
10:00–10:30 : Calafiore, Mixed-integer random convex programs
10:30–11:00 : Renault, Robust strategies in an evolving unknown environment
11:00–11:30 : Coffee break
11:30–12:00 : De Vito, Kernel methods for support estimation
12:00–12:30 : Chambolle, Convergence of the iterates and rates for an inertial forward-backward descent method

14:30–15:00 : Benfenati, Inexact Bregman regularization for Poisson data
15:00–15:30 : Chouzenoux, A stochastic 3MG algorithm with application to 2D filter identification
15:30–16:00 : Lucchetti, Strong Nash equilibria in finite games
16:00–16:30 : Fevotte, Dynamical nonnegative matrix factorisation for audio signal processing

Thursday:

09:30–10:00 : Salzo, Nonparametric regression in Orlicz spaces?
10:00–10:30 : Pesquet, Stochastic block-coordinate fixed point iterations with applications to splitting
10:30–11:00 : Pontil, On the k-support and related norms
11:00–11:30 : Coffee break
11:30–12:00 : Quang, Quasi Bregman monotonicity and applications
12:00–12:30 : Giulini, Dimension free PAC-Bayes bounds for the Gram matrix

14:30–15:00 : Verri, Learning, regularization, and optimization for computational biology
15:00–15:30 : Rudi, Learning sets and subspaces: a spectral approach

Friday:

10:00–10:30 : Sorin, Asymptotic value of repeated games and iteration of nonexpansive maps
10:30–11:00 : Champion, Displacement convexity
11:00–11:30 : Coffee break
11:30–12:00 : Rosasco, Early stopping for computational learning
12:00–12:30 : Combettes, Some aspects of the interplay between convex analysis and monotone operator theory


Scientific Committee


Organization


Hotel

The following hotels have signed an agreement and offer discounted rates. Daily rates for 1) double single use, and 2) double rooms are indicated. Triple or quadruple rooms are also available. Mention Mediaterraneo / DIBRIS September 2014 when booking.