This is the list of seminars on Optimisation and Machine Learning aimed at postgraduate students and researchers. They take place in the School of Mathematics, Ketley Room (54/4001) and online normally each Monday at 2pm. If you are interested in attending or presenting, please contact s.ward@soton.ac.uk and a.b.zemkoho@soton.ac.uk.
|
Date | Speaker | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Mar 2023 | Benjamin Rees | Derivative-Free Stochastic Optimisation Techniques |
| 01 Apr 2023 | No Seminar! | (Easter Break) |
| 08 Apr 2023 | No Seminar! | (Easter Break) |
| 15 Apr 2023 | Hanyu Wang (Guest) | Interpretable Deep Learning Forward and Reverse Primer Design to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Emerging Variants |
| _______________ | ________________ | __________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Date | Speaker | Topic/Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Mar 2023 | John Wu | An Introduction to the Vehicle Routing Problem: Heuristic and Meta-heuristic Approachs |
| 04 Mar 2023 | Montree Jaidee | A Sample Approximation Approach for Optimization with Probabilistic Constraints |
| 19 Feb 2023 | Marah Thormann | Outlier Detection and Robust Regression |
| 12 Feb 2023 | David Benfield | Neural Networks for Image Generation and Classification and their Vulnerabilities |
| 05 Feb 2023 | Samuel Ward | Complexity, Modeling and Algorithms for the Cleaning Schedule Problem |
| 29 Jan 2023 | Pradeep Kumar Sharma | Set Order Relations and Set-valued Optimization |
| 11 Dec 2023 | Samuel Ward | Christmas Optimisation Quiz |
| 04 Dec 2023 | Bruce Zhou | Combinatorial optimisation, Spanning Trees and Arborescences |
| 27 Nov 2023 | Weizhao Su | A Markov Decision Process (MDP) based route choice |
| 20 Nov 2023 | Montree Jaidee | Prime number programming |
| 13 Nov 2023 | Mohamed (Guest) | A Survey in Bilevel Optimal Control and Applications |
| 06 Nov 2023 | Benjamin Rees | Solving Inverse Problems using Topological Data Analysis |
| 30 Oct 2023 | Yaru Qian | A brief introduction to proximal algorithms in machine learning |
| 23 Oct 2023 | Lateef Jolaoso | Iterative methods for composite optimization problems |
| 16 Oct 2023 | Selin Ahipasaoglu | A first-order algorithm for the A-optimal experimental design problem: a mathematical programming approach |
| 09 Oct 2023 | David Benfield | Game Theory and its applications to Adversarial Machine Learning |
| 02 Oct 2023 | Samuel Ward | A Presentation of Dempe and Dutta’s 2012 Paper |
| 29 Sep 2023 | Daniel Hoff (Guest) | A Branch-and-Bound method for semivectorial bilevel problems |
| 17 Jul 2023 | Lateef Jolaoso | Semismooth Newton-type method for pessimistic bilevel optimization |
| 10 Jul 2023 | Weizhao Su | Modelling the Route Choice Decision |
| 03 Jul 2023 | Montree Jaidee | Iterative Polyhedral Approximation Spatial Branch-and-Bound |
| 12 Jun 2023 | David Benfield | Adversarial Machine learning |
| 05 Jun 2023 | Penghe Zhang | Global and Local Convergence-Rate Analysis of an Inexact Newton Augmented Lagrangian Method for Zero-One Composite Optimization |
| 22 May 2023 | Marah Thormann | Optimization algorithms for machine learning |
| 24 Apr 2023 | Samuel Ward | Solving a large system of equations |
| 20 Mar 2023 | Samuel & Marah | The Biofouling Project |
| 06 Mar 2023 | Montree Jaidee | Tightening big Ms in integer programming formulation for SVM with ramp loss. |
| 27 Feb 2023 | Marah Thormann | Bilevel Optimization – Difference of Convex Algorithm |
| 20 Feb 2023 | David Benfield | Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Multimorbidity in Patients with Endometriosis |
| 13 Feb 2023 | Yaru Qian | Hyperparameter Selection in Machine Learning via Bilevel Optimization |
| 06 Feb 2023 | Michal Grudzien (Guest) | Can 5th Generation Local Training Methods Support Client Sampling? Yes! |
| 30 Jan 2023 | Samuel Ward | An Overview of Bilevel Optimisation |
| 23 Jan 2023 | Montree Jaidee | Support Vector Machine with Ramp Loss |
| 16 Jan 2023 | Marah Thormann | Markowitz Style Portfolio Selection - Boosted Difference of Convex Algorithm |
| 09 Jan 2023 | David Benfield | A Solution Method for Adversarial Machine Learning |
| 12 Dec 2022 | Samuel Ward | Cone, Stationarity Concepts and Constraint Qualifications |
| 05 Dec 2022 | Montree Jaidee | Support Vector Machines with Hard-Margin Loss using Mixed-Integer Optimization Techniques |
| 28 Nov 2022 | Marah Thormann | Value-at-Risk (VaR) Constraint Portfolio Optimization Using the Boosted Difference of Convex Algorithm |
| 21 Nov 2022 | David Benfield | Modelling Adversarial Machine Learning Scenarios |
| 14 Nov 2022 | Samuel Ward | Bilevel Optimisation for Hyperparameter Tuning |
| _______________ | ________________ | __________________________________________________________________________________________ |