The OBA summer school held in Veroli (FR) ia now closed. It has been a great success, from all point of views: scientific, didactic, social. Lectures have been given by:
- Saathiya Keerthy (Microsoft Research): Generative Adversarial Networks
- Chih-Jen Lin (Taiwan University): Optimization and Machine Learning
- Laura Palagi, Sapienza Univ. of Rome (On line and stochastic learning)
- Massimiliano Pontil, IIT (Genova) (Multi task and transfer learning)
The first OBA prize for the Best Student Paper presentation has been awarded to Alba V. Olivares-Nadal (Univ. de Sevilla) for her presentation “Enhancing Interpretability by Tightening Linear Regression Methods”
Honorable mentions were received by Loris Cannelli (Parallel Asynchronous Algorithms for Nonconvex Big-Data Optimization) and Elisa Riccietti (Parametric design of a family of centrifugal pumps: dealing with geometries dataset unbalancedness)
OBA – Summer School on Optimization, Big Data and Application