[Colloquium] NOW: Talks at TTIC: 6/9 Elad Hazan, Princeton University and Google Research

[Brandie Jones]

*When:*      Thursday, June 9th at *11:30am CT*

*Where:*    Talk will be given live, in-person at
                     TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
                     5th Floor, Room 530

*Where: *    via Panopto (Livestream
<https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5ba35974-fb32-4c97-b72a-ae9301570a94>
)

*Who: *        Elad Hazan, Princeton University and Google Research

*Title:*          The online convex optimization approach to control

*Abstract:*  In this talk we will discuss an emerging paradigm in
differentiable reinforcement learning called “nonstochastic control”. The
new approach applies techniques from online convex optimization and convex
relaxations to obtain new methods with provable guarantees for classical
settings in optimal and robust control. We will discuss recent extensions
to nonlinear adaptive control and planning.

No background is required for this talk, and relevant materials can be
found here
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sites.google.com/view/nsc-tutorial/home?authuser%3D0&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1652817060166739&usg=AOvVaw3MU1NGVO-gtgIAhHt5nq-f>
.

*Bio:*  Elad Hazan is a professor of computer science at Princeton
University. His research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms
for basic problems in machine learning and optimization. Amongst his
contributions are the co-invention of the AdaGrad algorithm for deep
learning, and the first sublinear-time algorithms for convex optimization.
He is the recipient of the Bell Labs prize, the IBM Goldberg best paper
award twice, in 2012 and 2008, a European Research Council grant, a Marie
Curie fellowship, twice the Google Research Award and ACM fellowship. He
served on the steering committee of the Association for Computational
Learning and has been program chair for COLT 2015. He is the co-founder and
director of Google AI Princeton.

*Host:* Nathan Srebro <nati at ttic.edu>


*Brandie Jones *
*Administrative Assistant*
Toyota Technological Institute
6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL  60637
www.ttic.edu
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