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Due to ongoing concerns and public safety and health restrictions associated with COVID-19, this workshop has been postponed. Additional details will be provided at a later date.
Our main goal is to inform researchers, especially young scientists, about old and new open questions in optimization.
Regarding long standing questions, we place a particular emphasis on the BFGS algorithm: one of the more widely used optimization algorithms today—a remarkable feat considering it is turning 50 in 2020. Just as remarkable is the fact that several elementary questions about it remain unanswered.
Regarding new questions, we put the spotlight on emerging opportunities in non-convexity, and its ties to machine learning. After the reigns of linear and of convex programming, we need a new theory of what “tractable optimization” means.
