Numerical Methods: Talks announcement

 

Prof. Florian A. Potra, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County

will give two talks in the course “Numerical Methods”,  according to the following schedule:

• May 17th,  2018, 11.00 am - 1.00 pm (First Level Meeting Room - DMA )
• May 18th, 2018, 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm (First Level Meeting Room - DMA)

The talks will be about the "Interior Point Methods". 

Interior point methods have revolutionized the field of mathematical programming over the past three decades. They have been used for proving polynomial complexity for different classes of mathematical programming problems, and they have been implemented in very efficient software packages for solving large scale optimization problems arising in a variety of applications. While the implemented interior point methods may not always have  proven computational complexity, they typically posses superlinear convergence. 

This two talks highlight the most relevant results in the history  of  interior point methods with emphasis on polynomial complexity and superlinear convergence. It also presents some applications in simulation of multibody dynamics and bioinformatics.