COPTA: Committee on Optimization and its Applications

Members

Spring Lecture Series

WIDDOW series details, including abstracts, etc.

Talk Slides and Abstracts

• Rob Nowak, ECE:Adaptive Information and Optimization (Jan 31, 2011)
• Ariel Fernandez, Rice University:Selectivity filter for drug discovery: Evolutionary insights into the control and personalization of drug specificity (Feb 17, 2011)
• Grace Wahba, Stat:Examining the Relative Influence of Familial, Genetic and Covariate Information in Flexible Risk Models (Feb 21, 2011)
• Chris Re, CS:Hazy (Mar 7, 2011)
• Eftychios Sifakis, CS:Inferring Material and Structural Properties of Physical Systems from Sparse or Noisy Observations (Mar 28, 2011)
• Roger Wets, University of California at Davis:Optimization technology to deal with lack of data in statistical estimation (April 4, 2011)
• Jennie Reed, CheBioEng:Using Optimization to Explore and Leverage Biochemical Networks (April 18, 2011)
• Jim Rawlings, CheBioEng:Parameter estimation in stochastic kinetic models (April 25, 2011)

Other Links of Interest

• Optimization in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin
• Computer Sciences Lecture Series
• Industrial Engineering Colloquium Series
• Tutorial on Nonlinear Programming Strategies for Process Optimization
  • Professor Larry Biegler (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Five 2 hour lectures from September 23 - October 28