2009-02-20 Margaret Wright Lecture

<html><center></html>Asprey Lecture in Computer Science and Mathematics

Non-Derivative Optimization: Mathematics, Heuristics, or Hack

Margaret Wright
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

Friday, February 20, 2009
3:30pm
300 Rockefeller Hall

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Professor Wright's second Asprey Lecture, is entitled “Non-Derivative Optimization: Mathematics, Heuristics, or Hack?” This talk will briefly survey the current state of the art of non-derivative optimization methods, trying along the way to highlight a few of the interesting open mathematical questions. It is intended for an audience with some sophistication in mathematics.

For additional details see the full Vassar Press Release.