Slides of Recent/Selected Talks

• A Weak Tail-Bound Probabilistic Condition for Function Estimation in Stochastic Derivative-Free Optimization (with Improved Sample Sizing)
  12th US-Mexico Workshop on Optimization and its Applications, Steve Wright's "60th" Birthday, January 11, 2023
  
  
• A Review of Multi-Objective Optimization: Theory and Algorithms
  Optimization and Machine Learning (OptML) Research Group, ISE Department, Lehigh University, April 1, 2020
  
  
• Trust-Region Methods for the Derivative-Free Optimization of Nonsmooth Black-Box Functions
  ICOTA 2019, Xiangtan University (talk not delivered), dedicated to the 60th Anniversary of Professor Ya-xiang Yuan
  
  
• Stochastic Optimization of Multiple Objectives and Supervised Machine Learning
  Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh, November 14, 2019
  
  
• Direct Search based on Probabilistic Feasible Descent for Bound and Linearly Constrained Problems
  FoCM 2017, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Barcelona, July 17, 2017
  
  
• Recent Progress on Derivative-Free Trust-Region Methods
  Sapienza -- Università di Roma, June 28, 2016
  
  
• Direct Search based on Probabilistic Descent
  Computational Mathematics and Applications Seminars, University of Oxford, January 23, 2014
  
  
• Optimization in ... 45 Minutes
  Presentation given in Coimbra in 2013
  
  
• Sparse Hessian Recovery and Trust-Region Methods based on Probabilistic Models
  3rd Conference on Optimization Methods and Software, Chania, Greece, May 16, 2012.
  
  
• Direct Search for Multiobjective Optimization
  Journées de l'Optimisation / Optimization Days, Montréal, Canada, May 4, 2011.
  
  
• Interpolation-Based Trust-Region Methods for DFO
  ICCOPT 2010, Santiago, Chile, July 27, 2010
  
  
• Are we Pushing Direct Search to its Limit?
  Advanced Methods and Perspectives in Nonlinear Optimization and Control, RTRA STAE Workshop, CERFACS, Toulouse, February 3, 2010
  
  
• A Globally Convergent Primal-Dual Interior-Point Filter Method for Nonlinear Programming (ipfilter): New Filter Optimality Measures and Computational Results
  OPTEC, K.U. Leuven, December 2, 2008
  
  
• Derivative-Free Optimization: Theory and Practice
  (co-authored with Charles Audet)
  Mini-tutorial, Ninth SIAM Conference on Optimization, Boston, USA, May 10, 2008
  
  
• A Matemática e as Finanças da Matemática Financeira (in portuguese)
  Encontro Nacional, Programa Gulbenkian Novos Talentos em Matemática, Luso, September 8, 2006