Talks

Recent talks

• Robustness and regularization: a robust optimization perspective, talk given at the Neyman Seminar, Statistics Department, UC Berkeley, September 2008.

• Statistical Analysis of Online News, talk given at the Information Systems Laboratory Colloquium, Stanford, November 2007. A shorter version was presented at the Berkeley Center for New Media in October 2008.

• Sparse Graphical Models and the US Senate, talk given in the ORFE Department's Colloquium, Princeton, 2007.

Older talks

• The curse of uncertainty in dynamic programming — and how to fix it, talk given at the LIDS Colloquium at MIT, November 2004 (a similar talk was given at the 4-th Columbia Optimization Day).

• Robust option pricing, talk given at the IMA workshop on Robust Optimization and Semidefinite Programming, March 12-19, 2003.

• A tutorial on robust optimization, given at the IMA, March 11, 2003.

• Convex optimization in classification problems. Talk given at New trends in Optimization and Computational algorithms (NTOC 2001), December 9-13, 2001, Kyoto, Japan. For another version of this talk, given at MIT's Operations Research Center Seminar, click here.

• Semidefinite Programming and Relatives. Tutorial talk given at the 6th Kernel Workshop, Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, Whistler, Canada, December 14, 2002.