Warm-up

• Name, area, and ideas you might have for class research project

Logistics

• “Away” this Weds-Fri
• Xinran office hours
• Research paper timeline
  • Reaction paper - March 15
  • Project proposal - March 22
  • Progress report - April 12
  • Draft report - May 3
  • Peer review - May 10
  • Final report - May 24

Additional optimization ideas

• Stationary iterations with noise
• Stochastic gradient descent
• Scaled descent methods (Newton and company, Gauss-Newton, BFGS)
• Krylov, acceleration, and extrapolation (if time)
• Line search and globalization (if time)

Activity (submit a notebook or PDF for points)

2021-02-23 notebook