Selected recent talks
April 2024. Semi-plenary talk at Workshop on Nonsmooth Optimization and Applications (NOPTA 2024), Antwerp, Belgium, entitled "RandProx: Primal-Dual Optimization Algorithms with Randomized Proximal Updates": PDF
July 2023. Invited talk at the Conference of the International Federation of
Operational Research Societies (IFORS), Santiago, Chile, entitled "Communication-efficient distributed optimization algorithms": PDF
June 2023. Seminar at the Flatiron Institute, New York City, USA, entitled "Proximal Algorithms for Large-scale
Convex Nonsmooth Optimization": PDF
June 2023. Invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Optimization, Seattle, USA, entitled "RandProx: Primal-Dual
Optimization Algorithms with
Randomized Proximal Updates": PDF
Feb. 2022. Seminar at MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, entitled "Proximal Algorithms for Large-scale Convex Nonsmooth Optimization": PDF (modified)
May 2021. Seminar in the Federated Learning One World (FLOW) Seminar (international seminar series, virtual), presenting our ICML 2020 paper "From Local SGD to Local Fixed-Point Methods for Federated Learning": PDF Video