<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Tong Zhang-Rutgers University<br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">CSML Seminar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Tuesday, February 16, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">12:30pm-1:30pm</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Computer Science Building, Room 105</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">*<b>Lunch will be provided</b>*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Title</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Statistical Thinking for Modern Big Data Optimization<span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Many modern big-data machine learning problems encountered in the industry involve optimization problems so large that traditional methods are difficult to handle. The complex issues in solving these large scale problems have stimulated fast development of a new set of optimization techniques in recent years.</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">In particular, I will demonstrate my work in the past few years on novel applications of statistical thinking to efficiently solve these large scale optimization problems, including statistical sampling for optimization, modern stochastic optimization algorithms, and large scale distributed computing. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">If you would like to be added to the CSML listserv, please email <a href="mailto:capizzi@princeton.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:capizzi@princeton.edu">capizzi@princeton.edu</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Joseph D. Capizzi Jr.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Administrative Assistant to the Director</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Center for Statistics and Machine Learning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Green Hall, 3-C-5</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Princeton University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">Princeton, NJ 08544</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;"><a href="mailto:capizzi@princeton.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:capizzi@princeton.edu"><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">capizzi@princeton.edu</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;">609-258-9862</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><br></div></div></body></html>