Season 6 of the Online Seminar Series Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization

Tentative Program

October 2, 2023

Prof Mike Baiocchi, Stanford University, USA

Title: Outcome Reasoning: the under-discussed engine powering black box development

Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/c8ae1469ed034fddb17cddcde67972ac

 

October 9, 2023

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Caroline Spieckermann, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Title: A Graph Neural Network-based Reduce-then-Optimize Heuristic for the Fixed-Charge Transportation Problem

Miaolan Xie, Cornell University, USA

Title: Reliable Adaptive Stochastic Optimization with High Probability Guarantees

Quan Zhou, Imperial College London, UK

Title: Frontier Challenges in AI: The case of algorithmic bias in forecasting tools

Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/e6d83628f37b4f65adfb6062ee093be2

 

October 23, 2023

Prof Daniel Kuhn, EPFL, Switzerland
Title: Metrizing Fairness
Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/6e6638bbdd854181b21637e1e8c02e43

 

October 30, 2023

Prof Yael Grushka-Cockayne, University of Virginia, USA

Title: Challenges of Combining Forecasts from Correlated Sources

Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/c1702ac72a8244e6b0f93cf5befdb42c

 

November 6, 2023

Prof Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia University, USA

Title: Smart Predict-then Optimize for Contextual Linear Optimization: Theory and Computation

Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/40a20d4cc309494fa78f3d0b88102365

 

November 13, 2023

Prof Martin Schmidt, Trier University, Germany

Title: The Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering Problem: Robustification and Global Optimization Techniques

Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/0a4bbb97d3fa49c589ec644496e0e769

 

November 20, 2023

Prof Emilia Gomez, Joint Research Centre, European Commission & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Title: Scientific challenges, practical methodologies and policy perspectives for trustworthy AI

Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/186b1c65f74b4189ad852fb9ab0e137e

 

November 27, 2023

Prof Jordi Castro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Title: An interior-point solver for large structured optimization and (data science and alternative) applications

Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/e80c02d25f9b489f8f3c6e644edb9c3d

 

December 4, 2023

Prof Bilge Atasoy, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Title: Adaptive Transport Systems through Operations Research, Behavioral Modeling and Machine Learning

Link to talk: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/0953c0928387448397ba36a45eaef74d

 

Looking forward to e-seeing you there!

The organizers of the Online Seminar Series Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization

Emilio Carrizosa, IMUS-Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla

Nuria Gómez-Vargas, IMUS-Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla

Thomas Halskov, Copenhagen Business School

Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School