Convex Optimization - 2016 Spring

Teacher
Qing Ling (Email: qingling@mail.ustc.edu.cn)

Teaching Assistants
Songsong Cheng (Email: sscheng@mail.ustc.edu.cn)
Houfeng Huang (Email: hhoufeng@mail.ustc.edu.cn)
Qi Zhou (Email: zhouqixs@mail.ustc.edu.cn)

Final Exam
June 8th (Wednesday), 9:45am-11:45am
Location: Room 215, 3rd Teaching Building

June 6th (Monday), 14:00pm-15:00pm
Invited Talk by Prof. Zhangyang Wang (TAMU)
Title: An Overview of Advances In Sparse Representation [PDF]
Location: Room 215, 3rd Teaching Building

June 4th (Saturday)
The 2016 Workshop on SPArsity REvisited (SPARE 2016)

June 1st (Wednesday)
Cancelled

Homework 2
Due Time: June 6th (Monday), 14:00pm to Houfeng Huang (Email: hhoufeng@mail.ustc.edu.cn)
Assignments: Solve a LASSO Problem with:
1. Proximal Gradient Descent Method
2. Subgradient Method
3. Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers
4. Any Other Methods

Homework 1
Due Time: April 25th (Monday), 14:00pm
Assignments: 2.16, 3.18, 4.62, 5.5, 5.27 in Convex Optimization Textbook

March 27th (Sunday), 10:30am-11:30am
Invited Talk by Prof. Geert Leus (TUD)
Online Registration System
Title: Prediction-Correction Methods for Time-Varying Optimization [PDF]
Location: Room 215, 3rd Teaching Building

March 27th (Sunday), 9:30am-10:30am
Invited Talk by Prof. Georgios Giannakis (UMN)
Online Registration System
Title: Inference and Learning over Large-Scale Social Networks [PPTX]
Location: Room 215, 3rd Teaching Building

March 23rd (Wednesday)
Lectures by Teaching Assistants

March 21st (Monday)
Cancelled [JPG]

March 16th (Wednesday), 9:45am-11:20am
Guest Lecture by Prof. Anthony So (CUHK)
Title: Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Optimization [PDF]
Location: Room 215, 3rd Teaching Building