[Colloquium] Distinguished Lecture Series: Stephen Boyd, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

[Dawn Ellis]

Monday, January 26, 2015 at 11:00 am

*Stephen Boyd*, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.

Homepage <http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd>

*Title:* Convex Optimization: From embedded real-time to large-scale
distributed

*Abstract:* Convex optimization has emerged as useful tool for applications
that include data analysis and model fitting, resource allocation,
engineering design, network design and optimization, finance, and control
and signal processing. After an overview, the talk will focus on two
extremes: real-time embedded convex optimization, and distributed convex
optimization.   Code generation can be used to generate extremely efficient
and reliable solvers for small problems, that can execute in milliseconds
or microseconds, and are ideal for embedding in real-time systems.  At the
other extreme, we describe methods for large-scale distributed
optimization, which coordinate many solvers to solve enormous problems.

*Bio:* Stephen Boyd is the Samsung Professor of Engineering, and Professor
of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford
University. He received the A.B. degree in Mathematics from Harvard
University in 1980, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science  from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985, and then
joined the faculty at Stanford. His current research focus is on convex
optimization applications in control, signal processing, and circuit design.

Host:  Nati Srebro, nati at ttic.edu
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Location:

[image: 6045 S. Kenwood Av.]All talks will be held at TTIC in room #526
located at 6045 South Kenwood Avenue (intersection of 61st street and
Kenwood Avenue <http://maps.uchicago.edu/farsoutheast/kenwood.html>)

*Parking:* Street parking, or in the free lot on the corner of 60th St. and
Stony Island Avenue.





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*Dawn Ellis*
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Bookkeeper
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

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