Iowa State University Mathematics Colloquium
Spring 2008

Schedule of Talks

Time: 4:10-5p.m. Tuesday

Date

Speaker

Title (Click on the title of a talk for the abstract if available).

Jan 22, Tuesday

(Reserved by Leslie)

 

Jan 24, Thursday

Yaxiang Yuan,  Chinese Academy of Sciences

Subspace Methods for Large Scale Nonlinear Equations and Nonlinear Least Squares

Jan. 29, Tuesday

Alicia Labra, University of Chile

 

Feb. 5, Tuesday

(Reserved for interview talk)

 

Feb. 12, Tuesday

Howard Levine, Iowa State University

 

Feb. 19, Tuesday

Maria Schonbek, UCSC

 

Feb. 26, Tuesday

 

 

Mar. 7, Friday

Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology

 

Mar. 11, Tuesday

Peter Olver, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

 

Mar. 25, Tuesday

(Reserved by R. Ng)

 

April. 1, Tuesday

 

 

April. 8, Tuesday

Roger Lui

 

April. 15, Tuesday

Ezabel Darcy, University of Iowa

 

Apr. 22, Tuesday

George Andrews, Penn. State University

 

 

Abstracts:

January 24, Thursday, Prof. Yaxiang Yuan, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title:
Subspace Methods for Large Scale Nonlinear Equations and Nonlinear Least Squares
Abstract: In this talk, we consider large scale nonlinear systems of equations and nonlinear least square problems. We present subspace methods for solving these two special optimization problems. The subspace methods have the characteristic to force the next iteration in a low dimensional subspace. The main technique is to construct subproblems in low dimensions so that the computation cost in each iteration can be reduced comparing to standard approaches. The subspace approach offers a possible way to handle large scale optimization problems which are now attracting more and more attentions. Actually, quite a few known techniques can be viewed as subspace methods, such as the conjugate gradient method, the limited memory quasi-Newton method, the projected gradient method, and the null space method.

 

 

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