Seminar Details
2018-06-07 (14:00) : Distributed Optimization: A Tutorial
At Euler building (room A.002)
Organized by Mathematical Engineering
Speaker :
Olshevsky, Alex
Abstract :
This talk will provide a gentle introduction to the field of distributed optimization. The core question is how a collection of nodes interconnected in a network can cooperate to compute a minimizer of a convex function, provided each of them knows only a piece of this function. We will sketch the proof of a few of the results that have been obtained over the past decade and conclude with a list of open questions