TraDE-OPT Workshop on Algorithmic and Continuous Optimization | July 4-8, 2022, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Thanks to all participants: PhD students, invited speakers, PIs and instructors for making this workshop a lively, interactive and captivating event!

Welcome

TraDE-OPT is a training doctoral network funded by the EU (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Innovative Training Network ITN). The first TraDE-OPT workshop, dedicated to Algorithmic and Continuous Optimization, will take place between July 4 and July 8 2022 at UCLouvain. The workshop will provide an opportunity for TraDE-OPT participants, including all PhD students, to meet in person for the first time. Besides the main scientific part, which offers presentations by invited keynote speakers and doctoral students, it will feature an algorithmic bootcamp and activities devoted to job market preparation.

Invited keynote speakers

Radu Ioan Boţ (University of Vienna), Fast methods for linearly constrained convex optimization problems	Panos Patrinos (KU Leuven) Escaping limit cycles: Global convergence for nonmonotone inclusions and constrained nonconvex-nonconcave minimax problems
Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford) Evaluation complexity of algorithms for nonconvex optimization	Benoît Legat (MIT and UCLouvain) Low-Rank Univariate Sum-of-Squares Has No Spurious Local Minima
Nelly Pustelnik (ENS de Lyon) Deep unfolded proximal algorithms	Adrien Taylor (INRIA and ENS, Paris) Constructive approaches to optimal first-order methods for convex optimization

Progress presentations

All 15 doctoral students (ESRs) from our network have confirmed their participation and will give a progress presentation at the workshop. They are Cristian Vega and Cheik Traoré (UniGe), Gabriele Scrivanti and Mouna Gharbi (CS), Rodolfo Assereto and Enis Chenchene (U-GRAZ), Flavia Chorobura and Yassine Nabou (UPB), Giovanni Bruccola and Hung Tran (SRI PAS), Yassine Kamri and Sofiane Tanji (UCLouvain) and Jonathan Chirinos Rodriguez (CAMELOT) ; also see this page.

Algorithmic bootcamp

The algorithmic bootcamp will be organized by Benoît Legat (UCLouvain), Adrien Taylor (INRIA and ENS, Paris) and Baptiste Goujaud (Ecole Polytechnique). Two topics will be covered:

Implementation of a solver in Julia / Introduction to JuMP by Benoît Legat on July 7 morning
Automated performance estimation of optimization algorithms (Python / Matlab) by Adrien Taylor and Baptiste Goujaud on July 7 afternoon

CV writing, hiring processes and job interviews

Preparation to the job market: high level presentation, how to talk about yourself, interview simulations by Véronique Joubert on July 8

Boost your CV with your doctoral skills by Nicolas Dardenne (UCLouvain) on July 5

General schedule

this page for a detailed program and schedule

Scientic conference: keynote speakers and talks by TraDE-OPT PhD students	July 4-6, 2022
Algorithmic bootcamp	July 7, 2022
Session on CV writing, hiring processes and job interviews	July 5 (CV) and July 8, 2022

Venue

See this page for more information about the venue, maps and accommodation.

The workshop will take place at UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain), whose main campus is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, a small city 30km to the south-east of Brussels. All events will take place in the mathematical engineering department of UCLouvain (INMA), located in the Euler building (avenue Georges Lemaître, 4). The main room for talks will be Euler a002 (on the left after main entrance of the building).