Joint CIAM and Optimization and Systems Theory Seminar
Thursday, November 20 2008, 10.00-11.00, Room 3721, Lindstedtsvägen 25
Margaret Wright
Courant Institute, New York University, USA
Non-derivative optimization: a selection of mathematics, heuristics, and hacks
Non-derivative methods for optimization have been widely
used with notable success in science and engineering for at least 50 years.
Although serious mathematical analysis of many of these methods did not begin
until the early 1990s, research on old and new non-derivative techniques has
flourished since then, and continues to grow. A notable feature of this field
is lively controversy about which methods are ``most effective''.
This talk will survey selected parts of the current
state of the art, trying along the way to highlight a few of the interesting
open questions.
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Last update: 14 November, 2008 by
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