{"id":484,"date":"2010-03-30T09:15:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2010-08-24T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:41:09","slug":"484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2010\/03\/484\/","title":{"rendered":"Borwein participates in Distinguished Lecture Series at University of South Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 29. Borwein participated in the Distinguished Lecturer Series in Mathematics and Applications at the University of South Australia, speaking on &#8220;Entropy and Projection Methods for Inverse Problems&#8221;.  For details, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisa.edu.au\/ciam\/News\/Distinguished_lecturer_series\/default.asp\">Announcement<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisa.edu.au\/ciam\/News\/Distinguished_lecturer_series\/Abstracts.aspa\">Abstract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: I shall discuss in &#8220;tutorial mode&#8221; the formalization of inverse problems such as signal recovery and option pricing;   first as (convex and non-convex) optimization problems and second as feasibility problems &#8212; over the infinite dimensional space of signals. I shall touch on the following topics (more is an unrealistic task):<\/p>\n<p>   1. The impact of the choice of &#8220;entropy&#8221; (e.g., Boltzmann-Shannon,Burg entropy, Fisher information) on the well-posedness of the problem and the form of the solution.<br \/>\n   2. Convex programming duality: what it is and what it buys you.<br \/>\n   3. Algorithmic consequences.<br \/>\n   4. Non-convex extensions: life is hard. But sometimes more works than should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 29. Borwein participated in the Distinguished Lecturer Series in Mathematics and Applications at the University of South Australia, speaking on &#8220;Entropy and Projection Methods for Inverse Problems&#8221;. For details, see Announcement and Abstract.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract: I shall discuss in &#8220;tutorial mode&#8221; the formalization of inverse problems such as signal recovery and option pricing; first as (convex and non-convex) optimization problems and second as feasibility problems &#8212; over the infinite dimensional space of signals. I shall touch on the following topics (more is an unrealistic task):<\/p>\n<p> 1. The impact of the choice of &#8220;entropy&#8221; (e.g., Boltzmann-Shannon,Burg entropy, Fisher information) on <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/2010\/03\/484\/\">Borwein participates in Distinguished Lecture Series at University of South Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}