COCANA Seminar Series

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Upcoming events:

• Thursday, October 3, 2013, 12:00AM
  Hristo Sendov COCANA talk (tentatively)
• Friday, October 4, 2013, 12:00AM
  WCOM Victoria (confirmed)
• Friday, October 4, 2013, 12:00AM
  WCOM Victoria (confirmed)

Past events:

• Thursday, May 23, 2013, 2:00PM
  COCANA seminar and Unit 5 Colloquium
  Speaker: Sofia Zaourar http://www.inrialpes.fr/bipop/people/zaourar/
  Affiliation: BIPOP team of LJK laboratory and Inria Grenoble, France
  Room: COCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Exploiting uncontrolled information in nonsmooth optimization methods Details http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar130510.pdf
• Thursday, May 16, 2013, 2:00PM
  COCANA seminar and Unit 5 Colloquium
  Speaker: Dr. Nathalie Sinclair http://www.educ.sfu.ca/profiles/?page_id=263
  Affiliation: Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
  Room: Art 204
  Details: TouchCounts: Tap, pinch, push - a new mathematics register on the iPad http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar130516.pdf
• Saturday, May 4, 2013, 12:00AM
  WCOM in Seattle (talks)
  http://www.math.washington.edu/~jpfeiff/wcom13/
• Friday, May 3, 2013, 12:00AM
  WCOM in Seattle (travel day)
  http://www.math.washington.edu/~jpfeiff/wcom13/
• Thursday, April 18, 2013, 2:00PM
  COCANA seminar and Unit 5 Colloquium
  Speaker: Yao-Liang Yu http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~yaoliang/
  Affiliation: Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta https://www.cs.ualberta.ca/
  Room: COCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Applications of the Generalized Conditional Gradient in Machine Learning Details http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar130418.pdf
• Thursday, April 11, 2013, 2:00PM
  COCANA Seminar
  Speaker: Lael Parrott http://complexity.ok.ubc.ca/people/parrott/
  Affiliation: UBC O http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/ikbarberschool/people/faculty/eesc.html#Lael+Parrott
  Room: COCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Modelling to support management of marine traffic and sustain biodiversity in the Saint Lawrence Estuary http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar130411.pdf
• Thursday, March 21, 2013, 2:00PM
  COCANA Seminar
  Speaker: Warren Hare http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/faculty/hare.html
  Affiliation: UBC O http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/people/faculty.html
  Room: COCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Approximating Normal Cones Details http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar130321.pdf
• Thursday, March 7, 2013, 2:00PM
  COCANA Seminar
  Speaker: Nathan Krislock https://sites.google.com/site/nathankrislock/
  Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, UBCV https://www.cs.ubc.ca
  Room: COCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Semidefinite Optimization, Euclidean Distance Matrices, and Combinatorial Optimization http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar130307.pdf
• Friday, February 15, 2013, 10:00AM
  COCANA Seminar and Unit 5 Colloquium
  Speaker: Holger H. Hoos https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/holger-h-hoos
  Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, UBC https://www.cs.ubc.ca/
  Room: COCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Programming by Optimisation: Towards a New Paradigm for Developing High-Performance Software. http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar130214.pdf
• Thursday, January 24, 2013, 2:00PM
  OCANA Seminar Talk
  Speakers: Valentin Koch and Heinz Bauschke
  Affiliation: Autodesk, Inc. and UBC Kelowna
  Room: ART 218
  Details: Projection methods and road design http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar130124.pdf
• Thursday, November 29, 2012, 1:00PM
  OCANA Seminar Talk
  Speaker: Jia-wei Chen
  Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University.
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details:A projection method for approximating fixed points of quasi nonexpansive mappings without the usual demiclosedness condition http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar121129.pdf
• Thursday, November 22, 2012, 2:00PM
  OCANA (UBC Kelowna)
  Speaker: Dr. Julie Eaton
  Affiliation: University of Washington, Tacoma http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/directory/employee_profile.cfm?employee_ID=2436
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Variational properties of spectral max functions http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar121122.pdf
• Thursday, November 15, 2012, 2:00PM
  OCANA (UBC Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia)
  Speaker: Dr. Mau Nam Nguyen
  Affiliation: Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University, Oregon http://web.pdx.edu/~mnn3/
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Subgradients of Minimal Time Functions and Applications to Set Facility Location http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar121115.pdf Local time in Australia: 9am on Friday Nov 16.
• Saturday, October 6, 2012, 12:00AM
  WCOM
  Details http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mpf/wcom-fall-2012/
• Thursday, October 4, 2012, 5:00PM
  OCANA (UBC Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia)
  Speaker: Robert Hesse http://num.math.uni-goettingen.de/~hesse/
  Affiliation: Mathematics, University of Goettingen http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/85746.html
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Simple algorithms for nonconvex feasibility: analysis and some convergence results http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar121004.pdf
• Thursday, September 20, 2012, 5:00PM
  OCANA (UBC Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia)
  Speaker: Dr. Liangjin Yao https://sites.google.com/site/liangjinyao/
  Affiliation: CARMA, University of Newcastle http://carma.newcastle.edu.au
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Legendre-type integrands and convex integral functions http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120920.pdf
• Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 4:30PM
  OCANA (UBC Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Dominikus Noll http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~noll/
  Affiliation: University of Toulouse, France
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Nonconvex bundle method with inexact function and subgradient evaluations http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120718.pdf Jointly presented by Unit 5 Colloquium Series and OCANA.
• Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 11:00AM
  Optimization Workshop
  Speaker: MSc Valentin Koch http://vale.thus.ch
  Affiliation: Principal Research Engineer, Autodesk, Inc.
  Room: EME 1121-2
  Details: Operations Research in Industry and Finance http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120711b.pdf
• Wednesday, July 11, 2012, 10:00AM
  Optimization Workshop
  Speaker: Dr. Aleksandr Aravkin https://www.slim.eos.ubc.ca/~saravkin/Sasha/Home.html
  Affiliation: Seismic Laboratory for Imaging and Modeling UBC Vancouver
  Room: EME 1121-2
  Details: Robust Methods for Awesome Geophysical Inverse Problems http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120711a.pdf
• Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 9:00AM
  Optimization Workshop
  Speaker: H. Bauschke, S. Wang, W. Hare, Y. Lucet
  Affiliation: OCANA UBC Okanagan http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/
  Room: TBD
  Details: http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/workshop-2012/workshop-2012.php and http://cumc.math.ca/2012/
• Monday, July 9, 2012, 9:00AM
  Optimization Workshop
  Speaker: H. Bauschke, S. Wang, W. Hare, Y. Lucet
  Affiliation: OCANA UBC Okanagan http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/
  Room: TBD
  Details: http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/workshop-2012/workshop-2012.php and http://cumc.math.ca/2012/
• Monday, July 2, 2012, 8:35AM
  OCANA (UBC Kelowna) and ALEL 2012 (Limoges, France)
  Speaker: Shawn Wang http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/faculty/wang.html
  Affiliation: UBC O http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/people/faculty.html#wang
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Restricted normal cones and the method of alternating projections http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120702.pdf
• Monday, July 2, 2012, 8:00AM
  OCANA (UBC Kelowna) and ALEL 2012 (Limoges, France)
  Speaker: Dr. Heinz Bauschke https://people.ok.ubc.ca/bauschke/
  Affiliation: UBC O http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/people/faculty.html
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Paramonotonicity and Attouch-Thera duality http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120702.pdf
• Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 2:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna)
  Speaker: John D Nelson http://farpoint.forestry.ubc.ca/FP/search/Faculty_View.aspx?FAC_ID=3171
  Affiliation: Department of Forest Resources Management, UBC V
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Design, Construction and Maintenance Strategies for Forest Road Networks http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120620.pdf
• Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 3:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Andrew Park, http://kamino.tru.ca/experts/home/main/profile.html?pid=3422
  Affiliation: Thompson River University
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: What is "Real"? A Virtual Environment as a Research Tool http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120613.pdf
• Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 2:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Yves Lucet https://people.ok.ubc.ca/ylucet/
  Affiliation: UBC O http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/ikbarberschool/people/faculty/cosc.html#lucet
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Recent Advances in Computational Convex Analysis http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120613.pdf
• Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 2:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Pierre Marechal http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~marechal/
  Affiliation: Mathematical Institute of Toulouse, Universite Paul Sabatier, France http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/1-17731-Fiche-professionnelle.php?idFiche=188
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: A Digression about Ill-Posed Problems, Intertwining Relationships and Spectral Functions http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120506.pdf
• Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 2:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Warren Hare http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/faculty/hare.html
  Affiliation: UBC O http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/ikbarberschool/people/faculty/mathstats.html#whare
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: Proximal Bundle Methods for Inexact Oracles http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120530.pdf
• Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 3:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Shawn Wang http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/faculty/wang.html
  Affiliation: UBC O http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/people/faculty.html#wang
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120509.pdf
• Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 2:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Heinz Bauschke https://people.ok.ubc.ca/bauschke/
  Affiliation: UBC O http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/math/people/faculty.html
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120509.pdf
• Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 4:30PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Liangjin Yao http://sites.google.com/site/liangjinyao/
  Affiliation: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia http://www.newcastle.edu.au/staff/directory/yao_liangjin_156.html
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120418.pdf
• Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 4:30PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Jon Borwein http://www.carma.newcastle.edu.au/~jb616/
  Affiliation: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia http://www.newcastle.edu.au/staff/research-profile/Jonathan_Borwein/
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120404.pdf
• Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 2:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Hung Phan https://sites.google.com/site/hungphan32/home
  Affiliation: UBC O
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120229.pdf
• Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 3:00PM
  OCANA (UBC, Kelowna) and CARMA (Newcastle, Australia) Seminar
  Speaker: Shoham Sabach http://www.technion.ac.il/~ssabach/ssabach.html
  Affiliation: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
  Room: OCANA CoLab ASC 301A
  Details: http://ocana.ok.ubc.ca/seminar/seminar120208.pdf
• Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 11:30AM
  Coast to Coast Seminar Series
  Speaker: Dr. Yuriy Zinchenko http://math.ucalgary.ca/~yzinchen/,
  Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
  Room: FIP 337
  Details: http://www.irmacs.sfu.ca/events/coast-coast-abs#24873

Speakers are supported in part by Unit 5, and individual research grants. Coffee and cookies are provided by Unit 5. Some of the events are joint with Unit 5 Colloquium Series.

From left to right, professors Heinz Bauschke (UBCO), Yves Lucet (UBCO), and Terry Rockafellar (UW).

Dr. Shawn Wang (UBCO).

Dr. Warren Hare (UBCO) speaking about a proximal method for identifying active manifolds.

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