This workshop is being organized to celebrate Professor Angelia Nedić’s 60th birthday and honor her multiple long-lasting contributions to the field of optimization and control theory. This workshop brings together 21 of her colleagues, collaborators, former students, and postdocs (including organizers and invited speakers) who will present a broad range of contemporary topics in different areas of optimization and control theory. The main goal of this workshop is to inspire a future generation of research leaders to pursue work that promotes excellence and will thus likely have a profound impact in the field.

Speakers

Schedule

Time	Title	Speaker
8:55am – 9:00am	Welcome Remarks
9:00am – 9:30am	Emergent States in Distributed Sensing and Control	A. Stephen Morse
9:30am – 10:00am	Reinforcement Learning in Countable State Spaces	R. Srikant
10:00am – 10:15am	Quick Remarks
10:15am – 11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am – 11:30am	Accelerating DNN training: making multi-agent optimization outpace all-reduce	Mikael Johansson
11:30am – 12:00am	Machine unlearning on the spectrum: from distributed clustering to graph neural networks	Olgica Milenkovic
12:00am – 2:00pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm – 2:30pm	On the Tractable Resolution of Chance-Constrained Optimization Problems	Uday V. Shanbhag
2:30pm – 3:00pm	Semi-Decentralized Optimization with Collaborative Relaying in Unreliable Networks	Michal Yemini
3:00pm – 3:10pm	Quick Remarks
3:10pm – 4:00pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm – 4:30pm	Zeroth-Order Federated Methods for Stochastic MPECs and Nondifferentiable Nonconvex Hierarchical Optimization	Farzad Yousefian
4:30pm – 5:00pm	Private and efficient source and channel coding approaches for distributed learning	Anna Scaglione
5:00pm – 5:30pm	Optimal Algorithms for Average Decentralized Consensus Computation	Wotao Yin
5:30pm – 6:00pm	Resilient Coordination in Networked Multi-Robot Teams	Stephanie Gil
6:00pm – 6:10pm	Concluding Remarks and Group Photos

Organizers

• César A. Uribe, Rice University (cauribe@rice.edu)
• Philip E. Paré, Purdue University (philpare@purdue.edu)
• Thinh Doan, Virginia Tech (thinhdoan@vt.edu)
• Soomin Lee, Amazon (lepsoomi@amazon.com)
• Tatiana Tatarenko, Technische Universit ̈at Darmstadt (tatiana.tatarenko@tu-darmstadt.de)
• Behrouz Touri, University of California San Diego (btouri@ucsd.edu)
• Farzad Yousefian, Rutgers University (farzad.yousefian@rutgers.edu)
• Jinming (Jimmy) Xu, Zhejiang University (jimmyxu@zju.edu.cn)
• Shi Pu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (pushi@cuhk.edu.cn)
• Rasoul Etesami, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (etesami1@illinois.edu)
• Hoi-To Wai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (htwai@cuhk.edu.hk)
• Ji Liu, Stony Brook University (ji.liu@stonybrook.edu)