Events

Upcoming

• Point configurations: from statistical physics to potential theory, 4-8 May, 2026, CIRM, Luminy

• Conic Linear Optimization for Computer-assisted Proofs, 17-22 May, 2026, MFO, Overwolfach

2025

• Semidefinite programming: applications & solution methods, 7-11 July, 2025, Lorentz Center, Leiden (organized together with Angelika Wiegele and Fernando Oliveira)

• EURO 2025, June 22 - June 25, 2025, Leeds

2024

• EURO 2024, June 30 - July 3, 2024, Copenhagen

• 26th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, 19-23 August, 2024, Cambridge

2023

• SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, July 10-14, 2023, Eindhoven

• EUROpt 2023, August 23-25, 2023, Budapest

• POP23 - Future Trends in Polynomial Optimization, November 13-17, 2023, Toulouse

2022

• Three days of computational methods for extremal discrete geometry, November 30 - December 2, 2022, Köln

• Workshop on Semidefinite and Polynomial Optimization , 29 August - 2 September, 2022, CWI Amsterdam

• Conic Linear Optimization for Computer-Assisted Proofs, April 10 - 16, 2022, MFO Oberwolfach

• ESI Programme on “Optimal Point Configurations on Manifolds, Januari 10-21, 2022, Schrödinger institute, Vienna

2021

• Cambridge seminar on Mathematics of Information, October 20, 2021, Online

• SIAM conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, August 16-20, 2021, Online

• Dutch Seminar on Optimization, January 28, 2021, Online

2020

• Sphere Packing and the Conformal Bootstrap, December 14-18, 2022, Simons center

• Summer School on Optimization, Interpolation and Modular Forms, August 24-28, 2020, EPFL

• Point Distributions Webinar, July 1, 2020

• Oberseminar Optimierung, Geometrie und diskrete Mathematik, June 24, 2020, Cologne

• KdVI General Mathematics Colloquium, March 4, 2020, UvA

• Oberseminar, January 10, 2020, Konstanz

2019

• Computations and LP Bounds for Energy, Packing, and Covering, May 10-12, 2019, Vanderbilt

• International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications, July 22-26, 2019, Lisbon
  

• SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, July 9-13, 2019, Bern
  

• Vanderbilt Computational Analysis Seminar, March 18, 2019
  Blackoard talk: Pair correlation estimates for the zeros of the zeta-function via semidefinite programming

• Emory Algebra Seminar, February 5, 2019
  Blackoard talk: Pair correlation estimates for the zeros of the zeta-function via semidefinite programming

2018

• Northeastern Geometry, Algebra, Singularities, Combinatorics seminar, October 15, 2018
  Blackboard talk: Bounds for spherical finite distance sets

• AMS Sectional Meeting, September 29-30, 2018, University of Delaware
  Slides: Entanglement dimension and noncommutative polynomial optmization

• Discrete geometry and automorphic forms, September 24-28, 2018, AIM, San Jose
  Blackboard talk: Sums-of-squares and sphere packing

• From the Fundamental Lemma to Discrete Geometry, to Formal Verification, June 18-22, 2018, University of Pittsburgh

• Computation and Optimization of Energy, Packing, and Covering, April 9-13, ICERM, Providence
  Slides: New bounds for spherical finite distance sets (video)

• Point Configurations in Geometry, Physics and Computer Science, February 4-May 4, ICERM, Providence
  Blackboard talk: Semidefinite programming III, 7 March 2018

2017

• MIT Combinatorics Seminar, 13 October 2017, Cambridge
  Blackboard talk: Applications of noncommutative polynomial optimization

• Hierarchies, Extended Formulations and Matrix-Analytic Techniques, November 6-9, 2017, Simons Institute, Berkeley

• Seminar Mathematical Optimization and Quantum Information Theory, August 7-9, 2017, Bad Honnef
  Blackboard talk: Bounds on quantum entanglement dimensions

• DIAMANT Symposium, June 1, 2, 2017, Breukelen
  Slides: Using (noncommutative) polynomial optimization to bound matrix factorization ranks

• SIAM Conference on Optimization, May 22-25, 2017, Vancouver
  Slides: Using noncommutative polynomial optimization for matrix factorization ranks

• 53rd National Mathematical Congress, April 11, 12, 2017, Utrecht

• Real algebraic geometry with a view toward moment problems and optimization, March 5-11, 2017, MFO, Oberwolfach
  Slides: High precision computations for energy minimization

• Aussois Combinatorial Optimization Workshop, January 9-13, 2017, CNRS, Aussois
  Slides: Using polynomial optimization to bound matrix factorization ranks

2016

• Symposium Quantum Software in the Netherlands, November 25, 2016, CWI, Amsterdam

• 5th SDP Day: Applications of Semidefinite Optimization, June 30, 2016, CWI, Amsterdam

• Heilbronn and QALGO quantum algorithms meeting, April 14-16, 2016, Cambridge

• Moment problems in theoretical physics, April 7-9, 2016, Konstanz
  Slides: Moment methods in energy minimization

• Thesis defense, January 29, 2016, Delft
  Slides: Layman’s talk: Moment methods in extremal geometry

2015

• CWI Lectures on Quantum Computing, December 3, 2015, Amsterdam

• Zero-error information, Operators, and Graphs, November 25-27, 2015, Barcelona

• Intuitive Geometry, László Fejes Tóth Centennial, June 22-28, 2015, Budapest
  Slides: Moment methods in energy minimization

• Dutch Mathematical Congress, April 14-15, 2015, Leiden
  Slides: Moment methods in extremal geometry

• Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of convexity, January 19-23, 2015, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris
  

2014

• Minimal energy pointsets, lattices, and designs, October 12 - November 1, 2014, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna
  Slides: Energy minimization via moment hierarchies

• Utrecht Combinatorics Workshop, November 7, 2014, Utrecht

• IFORS, July 13-18, 2014, Barcelona
  Slides: Energy minimization via conic programming hierarchies

• Recent methods in sphere packing and optimization, June 8-14, 2014, MFO, Oberwolfach
  Blackboard talk: Energy minimization via conic programming hierarchies

• SIAM conference on optimization, May 19-22, 2014, San Diego
  Slides: Energy minimization via conic programming hierarchies

• Research visit at Microsoft Research New England (Host: Henry Cohn), May 5-16, 2014, Cambridge, MA

• Dutch Mathematical Congress, April 16-17, 2014, Delft

• Applications of Real Algebraic Geometry, February 27 - March 2, 2014, Aalto University, Helsinki
  Slides: A semidefinite programming hierarchy for packing problems in discrete geometry

2013

• GeoLMI 2013, Conference on Geometry and Algebra of Linear Matrix Inequalities, November 12-16, 2013, CIRM, Luminy

• ERC Worksop, Delaunay Geometry: Polytopes, Triangulations, and Spheres, October 7-9, 2013, FU Berlin

• Polynomial Optimisation, July 15-19, 2013, Newton Institute, Cambridge
  Slides: A semidefinite programming hierarchy for geometric packing problems (video)

• 4th SDP days, March 21-22, 2013, CWI, Amsterdam
  Slides: A semidefinite programming hierarchy for geometric packing problems

2012

• DIAMANT Symposium, November 29, 30, 2012, Doorn
  Slides: A semidefinite programming hierarchy for geometric packing problems

• WONDER minicourse on Random Optimization Problems, November 6-9, 2012, Eindhoven

• MFO Workshop, Optimal and near optimal configurations on lattices and manifolds, August 19-25, 2012, Oberwolfach
  Slides: Polydisperse spherical cap packings

• HPOPT, 12th International Workshop on High Performance Optimization, June 20-22, 2012, Delft

• Dutch Mathematical Conference, April 12, 2012, Eindhoven

• Emerging Developments in Real Algebraic Geometry, February 20-24, 2012, Magdeburg
  Slides: Upper bounds for multiple-size spherical cap packings

• 37th conference on The Mathematics of Operations Research, January 17, 19, 2012, Lunteren

2011

• ERC Workshop, High-Complexity Discrete Geometry, October 24-27, 2011, FU Berlin