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The annual East Coast Optimization Meeting (ECOM) is an initiative to introduce students and early-career researchers to the current trends in optimization as well as to create a strong networking environment among academia, industry, and the national laboratories.

The focus of the second ECOM will be on Optimization for Machine Learning. Researchers from all optimization areas are encouraged to participate. The meeting comprises of mini-courses by two distinguished speakers targeted toward students and early career researchers, and public lectures. There will be some invited and contributed talks.

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Keynote Lecturers

• Frank E. Curtis (Lehigh University)
• Wotao Yin (University of California, Los Angeles)

Guest Speakers

• Stefanie Guenther (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• Patrick O'Neil (BlackSky)
• Chris Teixeira (The MITRE Corporation)
• Madeleine Udell (Cornell University)

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Organizing Committee

• Harbir Antil (Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, George Mason University)
• Drew P. Kouri (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Denis Ridzal (Sandia National Laboratories)

Local Support Team: Rafael Arndt, Thomas S Brown, Ratna Khatri , Carlos N. Rautenberg, Deepanshu Verma, Mahamadi Warma

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Registration

• Registration is mandatory. Please register here
• Virtual meeting link will be emailed to the registered participants
• Questions and concerns should be addressed to Harbir Antil at hantil [at] gmu.edu

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