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During the 2026–27 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a Question and Answer (Q&A) Seminar, organized by Tobias Schmidt, Bowen Yang, and Saman Habibi Esfahani.

The seminar will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 12:00–1:00 pm (Eastern Time) in the common room at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138.

CMSA members may submit questions and suggest possible speakers using this form (link).

  • What is a self-concordant barrier function?, and what is an accelerated first-order algorithm?  (ICM Series: On the work of Yurii Nesterov)

    CMSA Q&A Seminar
    Common Room, CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    CMSA Q&A Seminar Speaker: Robert M. Freund, MIT Title: What is a self-concordant barrier function?, and what is an accelerated first-order algorithm?  (ICM Series: On the work of Yurii Nesterov) Abstract: The two most impactful contributions of Nesterov on both theory and computation in optimization are (i) self-concordant barriers for interior-point methods in convex optimization, and (ii) […]