Global Optimization Laboratory • University of Florence https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/ We are pleased to announce the publication of our work “Efficient Globalization of Heavy-Ball Type Methods for Unconstrained Optimization Based on Curve Searches” in Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. We are very happy for our researchers Federica Donnini, Matteo Lapucci and Pierluigi Mansueto on this achievement! The paper is... Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-06-22-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-06-22-GOLsite/ We are pleased to announce the publication of our work “Effective Front-Descent Algorithms with Convergence Guarantees” in SIAM Journal on Optimization. We’re very happy for our researchers Matteo Lapucci, Pierluigi Mansueto and Davide Pucci on this achievement! The paper is available here. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-04-14-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-04-14-GOLsite/ We are pleased to announce next seminar of the FLorence OPtimization talkS (FLOPS) series! Britt van Veggel, PhD student at University of Amsterdam, will give a talk entitled “Heatmaps for maximum coverage facility location optimization”. The talk will be on April 29th at 2:00 p.m. in Room 221 Centro didattico... Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-04-08-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-04-08-GOLsite/ We are pleased to announce next seminar of the FLorence OPtimization talkS (FLOPS) series! Francesco Rinaldi, Full Professor at Università di Padova, will give a talk entitled “Projection-Free Optimization in Action: Scalable Methods for Network Science and Graph Learning”. The talk will be on March 27th at 11:00 a.m. in... Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-03-05-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-03-05-GOLsite/ We are pleased to announce the next seminar of the FLorence OPtimization talkS (FLOPS) series! Davide Palitta, RTDb at Università di Bologna, will give a talk entitled “The S^T-S-SVD and Applications”. The talk will be on January 19th at 11:00 a.m. in Room 119 Centro didattico Morgagni. The abstract is... Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-01-05-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2026-01-05-GOLsite/ On December 1st and 11th we had three seminars from the FLorence Optimization Series: John Pearson from University of Edinburgh talked about “Recent Developments in Numerical Methods for PDE-Constrained Optimization” Tizian Wenzel from LMU Munich talked about “Efficient and Adaptive Kernel Models for Machine Learning” Simone Rebegoldi from Università degli... Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-12-02-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-12-02-GOLsite/ New GOL website is now online! Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-12-02-2-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-12-02-2-GOLsite/ New seminar for the FLorence Optimization Series: Leonardo Galli from LMU Munich will give a talk on “Revisiting Large Step Sizes in the Training of Neural Networks”! See you in Aula Caminetto (S.Marta - University of Florence - School of Engineering) on November the 3rd at 2:30 p.m. Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-10-30-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-10-30-GOLsite/ Renovation of GOL website proceeds! Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-07-29-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-07-29-GOLsite/ Renovation of GOL website just started! Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-07-01-GOLsite/ https://webgol.dinfo.unifi.it/2025-07-01-GOLsite/