Benjamin Grimmer



Upcoming Talks

Provably Faster Gradient Descent via Long Steps
at ISMP July, 2024
at AMS Eastern Section Meeting, Howard University April, 2024
at INFORMS Optimization Society March, 2024

Past Talks

Provably Faster Gradient Descent via Long Steps Youtube, Slides
at Mila Samsung SAIT AI Lab, Montreal 1/8/2024
at University of Minnesota Machine Learning Seminar 10/24/2023
at SIAM NNP Section Metting 10/21/2023
at MIT Workshop on Continuous Optimization 8/19/2023
at MOPTA 8/17/2023
at MIT ORC Colloquium 8/11/2023

Some Primal-Dual Subgradient Method Theory for Strongly Convex Optimization
at INFORMS Annual Meeting 10/18/2023
at MOPTA 8/17/2023
in SIAM Conference on Optimization, Seattle, WA 5/31/2023

Radial Duality: Scalable, Projection-Free Optimization Methods Slides
at UIowa Tippie Seminar 9/28/2023
at Johns Hopkins AMS Seminar 3/17/2023
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3/29/2023
at University of British Columbia 3/10/2023
at Carnegie Mellon University 11/4/2022
at Purdue University 10/28/2022
at INFORMS Annual Meeting 10/16/2022
at ICCOPT 7/22/2022
at INFORMS Annual Meeting 10/20/2021
at Johns Hopkins MINDS Seminar 8/30/2021

Convergence of First-Order Methods for (some) Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization Slides
in Erice, Italy 5/27/2022

Limiting Behaviors of Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization via Continuous-Time Systems
at ALT 2022 3/31/2022

Some Extensions on the Reach of First-Order Optimization Theory Youtube , Slides
Thesis Defense at Cornell's ORIE 5/25/2021

The Landscape of the Proximal Point Method for Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization
at SIAM Conference on Optimization 7/18/2021
at Clemson University 4/16/2021
at Cornell ORIE 2/16/2021
at Johns Hopkins, Applied Math & Stats 1/11/2021
at MIT Sloan 1/6/2021
at IIT Discrete Math Seminar 10/2/2020

General Convergence Rates Follow From Specialized Rates Assuming Growth Bounds
at INFORMS Annual Meeting 10/21/2019

A Radial Duality Theory for Optimization
at INFORMS Annual Meeting 10/20/2019
at RPI Applied Math Days 4/5/2019

Convergence Rates For Stochastic Subgradient Methods Without Lipschitz Continuity Or Convexity
at International Symposium on Mathematical Programming 7/2/2018
at INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 3/4/2018

Radial Subgradient Method
at INFORMS Annual Meeting 10/24/2017
at SIAM Conference on Optimization 5/22/2017
in the Cornell SCAN Seminar 4/10/2017

Nash Equilibrium and the Price of Anarchy in Priority Based Network Routing
at IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 4/20/2016

Near Linear Time 5/3-Approximation Algorithms for Two-Level Power Assignment Problems
at the ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing (FOMC) 8/11/2014


Miscellaneous

Talk about and embodying Palindromes Youtube
October, 2018.