URA Seminar - Walaa Moursi

Monday, June 19, 2023 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Title: An invitation to monotone operators and their applications in optimization

Speaker: Walaa Moursi
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Location: MC 5479

Abstract: In this talk, I give an overview of the theory of monotone operators and its connection to optimization algorithms. This talk is a good introduction to how abstract theoretical results serve as bases for successful algorithms in practice.