Upcoming, Current and Past Research Activities
2025
Splitting Algorithms – Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities, 10-21 February, MATRIX, Australia
https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/events/splitting-algorithms-advances-challenges-and-opportunities/
Strategies for Handling Applications with Nonconvexity (SHAWN), 11-16 May, Banff, Canada
https://www.birs.ca/events/2025/5-day-workshops/25w5372
Workshop on Optimisation, Dynamics and Convex Analysis (WODCA 2025)
International workshop on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. Alexander Plakhov
https://sites.google.com/view/wodca2025/
2024
25th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), 21-26 July, Montreal, Canada.
Sixth Conference on Discrete Optimization and Machine learning (DO x ML 2024), 8-10 July, Tokyo, Japan
https://doml.zib.de/previous/doml2024.html
Advances in Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, 24-28 May, Erice, Sicily
International Centre for Scientific Culture “E. Majorana”
School of Mathematics “G. Stampacchia”
https://sites.google.com/view/nao2024/
2023
SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, July 10-14, Eindhoven
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/ag23
16-th International Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, 3-7 July, Borovets
http://www.math.bas.bg/~bio/krast/WP23/
Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM), 12-21 June 2023, Paris
Workshop on Geometry and Optimisation, 22 May 2023, UNSW Sydney
2022
Workshop on Optimisation, Metric Bounds, Approximation and Transversality (WOMBAT2022), 13–15 December 2022, Perth
MATRIX research program "Convexity, Geometry and Computation", 28 November–2 December 2022
https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/events/convexity-geometry-and-computation/
2021
Workshop on Optimisation, Metric Bounds, Approximation and Transversality (WOMBAT2021), 13–17 December 2021
Workshop on the Intersections of Computation and Optimisations (WICO), 22–25 November 2021
https://maths.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/workshop-intersections-computation-and-optimisations
SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP21), 20-23 July 2021
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/op21
Well-posedness of optimization problems and related topics, 28 June–2 July 2021
http://www.math.bas.bg/~bio/WP21/
2020
WOMBAT 2020, Geelong campus of Deakin University, 2–4 December 2020
Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC2020), 30 August–2 September 2020
https://www.ctac2020.unsw.edu.au/
2019
WoMBaT 2019, 8-10 December 2019
“63nd” Annual Meeting of the Australian Maths Society, 3-6 December 2019
https://www.austms.org.au/tiki-calendar.php?calitemId=900
Integrable Systems 2019, 28–29 November 2019
http://wp.maths.usyd.edu.au/igs/workshops/integrable-systems-2019/
Workshop on Geometry and Optimisation, 5–6 November 2019
https://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/events/2019-11/workshop-geometry-and-optimisation
See here for archived information.
14th International Seminar on Optimization and Related Areas (ISORA), 7–11 October 2019
Workshop Chile-Australia on Optimization (WACHO 2019), 2 October 2019
Complexity of numerical computation: a workshop in honour of Felipe Cucker, 19–23 August 2019
Workshop on Mathematical Billiards, 24–27 June 2019
https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/billiards/
BIRS workshop: Geometry of Real Polynomials, Convexity and Optimization, 26–31 May 2019
https://www.birs.ca/events/2019/5-day-workshops/19w5180
2018
WoMBaT 2018, 29 November–1 December 2018
CTAC 2018, 27–30 November 2018
https://carma.newcastle.edu.au/meetings/ctac2018/
AVOCADO, 25–26 August 2018
Workshop on Fixed Points and Applications, 21 May 2018
This one-day workshop was held at RMIT, and was focussed around the research interests of Professor Hong-Kun Xu who was visiting me at that time. See here for more information about this workshop, also https://sites.rmit.edu.au/rmitopt/fpaa/.
MATRIX program on Approximation, Optimisation and Algebraic Geometry, February 2018
https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/events/algebraic-geometry-approximation-and-optimisation/
Variational Analysis Down Under (VADU2018) in honour of Asen Dontchev, 19–21 February 2018
https://sites.rmit.edu.au/asen/
2017
WoMBaT 2017, 29 November–2 December 2017
SPOM in Western Australia, 8–10 December 2017
http://scieng.curtin.edu.au/science/mathematics-and-statistics/joc-2017/spom-in-wa-2017/
2016
Workshop on polytopes, 17 November 2016
An informal gathering of those interested in the geometry of polytopes. See here for more information about this workshop.
WoMBaT 2016, 24–25 November
http://www.wombat.mocao.org/wombat-2016/wombat-2016-overview/
MATRIX Program on Approximation and Optimisation
The program was held on 11-16 July in Creswick, Victoria.
MODU2016 workshop, 18-22 July 2016
The workshop was designed to bring together researchers working in various areas of modern mathematical optimisation, to prompt an exchange of ideas between Australian and overseas researchers. The workshop was focussed on the modern aspects of optimisation that involve deep interplay between computational problems and pure mathematical questions.
Please visit here for more info.