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Southampton SIAM-IMA Student Chapter

Seminars  

 

Where, When, Who?

This is the list of SIAM-IMA Student Chapter seminars aimed at postgraduate students and researchers. They take place in the School of Mathematics, Ketley Room (54/4001) and online each Monday at 2pm. If you are interested in attending or presenting, please contact s.ward@soton.ac.uk.
 

 

Upcoming Seminars:

Date

Speaker Topic/Title
02 Jun 14:00 Samuel Ward Mathematical programs with complementary constraints
09 Jun 13:00 Gulfem Er Optimal Microgrid Sizing and Operation with Distributionally Robust Optimization
09 Jun 13:40 Disha Hegde Learning to Solve Related Linear Systems
16 Jun 14:00 Kuntal Som Set-valued optimization: Theory and Applications.
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Past Seminars:

Date Speaker Topic/Title
07 Apr 2025 Benjamin Rees Derivative-free and blackbox stochastic optimisation solvers for simulation optimisation under fixed oracle budgets
24 Mar 2025 Zhanxing Zhu Bi-level optimization in machine learning: instances, acceleration and implicit bias
03 Mar 2025 Kerras Mohamed Oussama Robust bilevel  Inverse optimal control
24 Feb 2025 Hongyu Zhang Stochastic programming with multi-timescale uncertainty: Modelling and algorithms
03 Feb 2025 Mohammad Sadegh Salehi Scalable Inexact Algorithms for Bilevel Learning
20 Jan 2025 Rachel Shaw Power and Mobility Optimisation in a Multi-Agent Electronic Warfare Game
09 Dec 2024 Samuel Ward Christmas Quiz 🎄
02 Dec 2024 Jenny May-Roberts The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
25 Nov 2024 Montree Jaidee Cutting planes in integer programs
18 Nov 2024 Gulfem Er Two-stage Stochastic Programming
11 Nov 2024 Bruce Zhou Approximate Dynamic Programming
04 Nov 2024 Weizhao Su Integrated Traffic-transit Stochastic Equilibrium Model
28 Oct 2024 David Benfield Hierarchical and Spatial Clustering
21 Oct 2024 Benjamin Rees Derivative-Free Stochastic Optimization
14 Oct 2024 Marah Thormann Statistical Hypothesis Testing & Bootstrapping
07 Oct 2024 Samuel Ward Constraint Qualifications
15 Apr 2024 Hanyu Wang (Guest) Interpretable Deep Learning Forward and Reverse Primer Design to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Emerging Variants
11 Mar 2024 John Wu An Introduction to the Vehicle Routing Problem: Heuristic and Meta-heuristic Approaches
04 Mar 2024 Montree Jaidee A Sample Approximation Approach for Optimization with Probabilistic Constraints
19 Feb 2024 Marah Thormann Outlier Detection and Robust Regression
12 Feb 2024 David Benfield Neural Networks for Image Generation and Classification and their Vulnerabilities
05 Feb 2024 Samuel Ward Complexity, Modeling and Algorithms for the Cleaning Schedule Problem
29 Jan 2024 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
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