Date: May 15 - May 19, 2017
Venue: Lipschitz lecture hall, Mathematics Center, Endenicher Allee 60, 53115 Bonn
Organisers: Seyedehsomayeh Hosseini, Boris Mordukhovich, André Uschmajew

As many problems in computer vision, robotics, signal processing and geometric mechanics are expressed as nonsmooth optimization problems, the huge impact of efficient methods to solve these problems is undeniable. Even solving difficult smooth problems sometimes leads to the use of nonsmooth optimization methods to make the problem either smaller in dimension or simpler in structure. It also may happen that a problem is analytically smooth, but numerically nonsmooth. Therefore, it is of eminent interest to develop useful computational and theoretical tools in these situations as well.

This workshop on nonsmooth optimization techniques and their applications will bring together leading experts from different research groups from all over the world to present the latest theoretical and practical achievements in this growing field, fostering collaboration and discussing future developments. Topics include, but are not limited to nonsmooth and variational analysis, optimization methods and their convergence analysis, applications in image processing, machine learning, etc.

In case of questions regarding this workshop, please contact noa2017(at)hcm.uni-bonn.de.