Talks
Presentations, seminar visits, and conference talks, from newest to oldest. Slides are linked where available.
Tufts Computational and Applied Math Seminar March 2026, hosted by Abiy Tasissa: Slides
Simons Workshop on Randomness, Invariants, and Complexity: “An introduction to geodesically convex optimization, with a focus on complexity of algorithms”
ICCOPT 2025: “What do global PŁ functions look like?”
Public defense: Slides
Private defense: Slides
Universität Bern, Department of Mathematics and Statistics “Curvature and complexity: Lower bounds for geodesically convex optimization”. May 2025. Invited by Andrea Agazzi.
Cornell ORIE February 2025, hosted by Adrian Lewis: Slides
EPFL MATHICSE Retreat 2025: “Mini-series on benign non-convexity: Low-Dimensional Relaxations”
Optimization & Decision Intelligence Group at ETH Zürich November 2024, hosted by Niao He and Ya-Ping Hsieh: Slides
ISMP 2024: “Sensor network localization has benign landscape under mild rank relaxation”
Quantum Information Colloquium at RUB March 2024, hosted by Michael Walter: Slides
DACO Seminar at ETHZ March 2024, hosted by Afonso Bandeira and Pedro Abdalla Teixeira: Slides
Statistics in metric spaces workshop 2023: “Curvature and Complexity: Lower bounds for geodesically convex optimization”
EPFL MATHICSE Retreat 2023: “Optimization through lifts: when are local minima also global minima? (with some applications to matrix and tensor factorizations)”
EPFL MATHICSE Retreat 2022: “Are apocalypses an obstacle for optimization on (symmetric) bounded rank matrices?”
EPFL candidacy exam, 2021: “Geodesic convexity and optimization through lifts”
Swiss Numerics Days 2021: “Negative curvature obstructs acceleration for g-convex optimization”