BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6870ed25cd1a5 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180117T093000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180117T093000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/special-semi nar-yi-zhou SUMMARY:Special Seminar - Yi Zhou CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTITLE: Stochastic algorithms for distributed optim ization and machine\nlearning\n\nSpeaker:\n Yi Zhou\n\nAffiliation:\n Geor gia Institute of Technology\n\nRoom:\n MC 5501\n\nABSTRACT:\n\nIn the big data era\, machine learning acts as a powerful tool to\ntransform data int o knowledge that helps us make predictions and\ndecisions. It has strong t ies to the field of optimization\, in the way\nthe latter provides methods and theory.\n DTSTAMP:20250711T105325Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR