Conferences & Seminars

Conference organization

1. Co-organizer of the INdAM Workshop "Advanced Techniques in Optimization for Machine learning and Imaging (ATOMI)", held in Rome on 20-24 June 2022.

2. Member of the Organizing Committee of the "Two Days of Numerical Linear  Algebra and Applications" workshop, held in Naples on 14-15 February 2022.

3. Co-organizer of the PRIMO Workshop, a 3-day workshop for early career researchers in applied mathematics held in Bologna on 11-13 October 2021.

Sessions organization in national and international conferences

1. Organizer of the minisymposium "Numerical Advances in Data Analysis and Machine Learning" at the "2021 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE21)", co-organizer: Dr. Rosanna Campagna (University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli"), 1-5 March 2021 (virtual event)

2. Organizer of the minisymposium on “Large-scale Optimization and Applications” at the “ 2020 edition of the bi-annual congress of the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI2020)”, co-organizer: Dr. Federica Porta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), 30 August - 3 September 2021, Parma (Italy)

3. Organizer of the special session on “First order methods in optimization: theory and applications” at the “3rd International Conference and Summer School Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms (NUMTA 2019)”, co-organizer: Dr. Simone Rebegoldi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), 15-21 June 2019, Le Castella, Isola Capo Rizzuto (Italy)

Seminars series

1. Co-organizer of the "PRIMO Talks" seminar series, held online starting from October 2020

Talk in national and international conferences

1. “A multiplicative components framework for fuzzy segmentation of noisy MR images” at the “MIVA Workshop 2024”, February 01, 2024, Napoli (Italy)

2. “Cartoon-texture evolution for two-region image segmentation” at the “PRIMO Workshop 2022”, September 06-08, 2022, Trieste (Italy) [remote]

3. “Efficiently combining first- and second-order directions in neural network training” at the “EURO2022 Conference”, July 03-06, 2022, Helsinki (Finland) 

4. “TGV-based restoration of Poissonian images with automatic estimation of the regularization parameter” at the “21st International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2021)”, September 13-16, 2021, Cagliari (Italia) [remote]

5. “Restoration of Directional Images in Presence of Poisson Noise” at the “2021 SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA21)”, May 17-21, 2021 [event held online]

6. “Restoring Poissonian images with one-directional texture” at the “ECMI2021 Conference”, April 13-15, 2021, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany) [event held online]

7. “Line-search second-order methods for optimization in noisy environments” at the “BOS/SOR 2020 Conference”, December 14-15, 2020, Warsaw (Poland) [event held online]

8. “Second order methods for optimization in noisy environments” at the working day “Metodi di ottimizzazione per l’apprendimento automatico e l’elaborazione di immagini”, 2019 Projects of the “Gruppo Nazionale per il Calcolo Scientifico” (GNCS)  of the “Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica” (INdAM), January 31, 2020, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze (Italy)

9. “A gradient-based globalization strategy for the Newton method” at the “3rd International Conference and Summer School Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms (NUMTA 2019)”, June 15-21, 2019, Le Castella, Isola Capo Rizzuto (Italy) 

10. “A subspace-accelerated method for the minimization of joint l1- and TV-regularized functions with application to machine learning on fMRI data” at the 2nd IMA and OR Society Conference on Mathematics of Operational Research, April 25-26, 2019, Aston University, Birmingham (United Kingdom)

11. “P2GP: a proportioning-based two-phase gradient algorithm for QP problems with bounds on the variables and a linear constraint“ at the 18th French-German-Italian Conference on Optimization, September 25-28, 2017, University of Paderborn, Paderborn (Germany)

12. “Using a two-phase gradient projection method in IRN minimization for Poisson image restoration” at the Optimization and Decision Science 2017 (47th Annual Meeting of the Italian Operations Research Society), September 4-7, 2017, Hilton Sorrento Palace Conference Center, Sorrento (Italy)

13. "Sparse Poisson image restoration via iterative reweighted LS and 2-phase gradient projection methods" at the High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering (HPCSE2017), May 22-25, 2017, Hotel Soláň, Karolinka (Czech Republic)

14. "A two-phase algorithm for singly linearly constrained quadratic programs subject to lower and upper bounds" at the 46th Annual Conference of the Italian Operations Research Society (AIRO2016), September 6-10, 2016, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste (Italy)

15. "A Generalized Eigenvalues Classifier with Embedded Feature Selection" at the "Advances in Numerical Analysis and Applications" Miniworkshop, March 30-31, 2015, Dipartimento di Matematica "Giuseppe Peano" - Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino (Italy) 

Seminars

1. " Some numerical optimization applications in machine learning and image processing", March 6, 2023, ACM Seminars, UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics.

2. "Combining Newton-type and steepest descent directions to achieve global convergence", December 9, 2020, PRIMO Talks series (online seminars). [Slides / Video]

3. "Using gradient directions to get global convergence of Newton-type methods", November 19, 2020, Seminars on Numerical Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad (Serbia), Organizer: Prof. Nataša Krklec Jerinkic (held online)

4. “Subspace acceleration techniques in gradient-projection methods for quadratic programming”, March 27, 2019, Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy).

5. "Ottimizzazione quadratica con vincoli di simplesso: algoritmi e applicazioni" (Quadratic programming problems on the simplex: algorithms and applications), December 14, 2017, Department of Mathematics and Applications, University of Naples "Federico II", Napoli (Italy).

6. "Introducing P2GP (Proportionality-based 2-phase Gradient Projection) method. Theoretical background and applications.", June 8, 2017, IT4Innovations national computing center, VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava.