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2025

• Visiting Associate Professor, Kyoto University Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS). 🇯🇵 

• Banff International Research Station workshop Strategies for Handling Applications With Nonconvexity (SHAWN).  🇨🇦 

• I organized the international summit Splitting Algorithms - Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities. This event is hosted and chiefly sponsored by MATRIX Institute, with additional support from Australian Mathematical Society, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, MATRIX-Simons Collaborative Fund, and Mathematics of Computation and Optimisation. 🇦🇺  

2024

• ISMP 2024 in Montreal. 🇨🇦

• WOMBAT 2024. 🇦🇺 

• AustMS/NZMS/AMS joint meeting in Auckland (org committee and AustMS student support committee chair) 🇳🇿.

2023

• Talk, "On tight error bounds for conic optimisation," at WOMBAT 2023 at U. Sydney, 11 - 15 December, 2023. 🇦🇺 

• Seminar, "On tight error bounds for conic optimisation," Institute for Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo), 5 September, 2023. 🇯🇵 

• Curtin University Mathematical Sciences Club seminar, "Dynamics-driven Learning," 18 August, 2023. 🇦🇺 

• Talk at SIAM OP 23, "Dynamics-driven meta algorithms for operator splitting methods," Seattle, 31 May - 3 June, 2023. 🇺🇸

• Seminar, "Dynamics-driven meta algorithms for operator splitting," IIT Mandi, 11 May, 2023. 🇮🇳 (remote) 

• Cognition and Emotion Group Seminar (co-presented with Iryna Khodos), "Discussion on common methods used in data science: Example from bilingual language modelling," Curtin University, 5 May, 2023. 🇦🇺 

• Curtin University Mathematical Sciences Club seminar, "Phase Portraits of Hyperbolic Geometry," 21 April, 2023. 🇦🇺 

• Seminar, "Nonlinear optimisation for machine learning: bridges, models, and computational discovery," University of Sydney, 7 February, 2023.  🇦🇺 

• Summer Optimisation Seminar at University of Melbourne, "Dynamics-driven meta algorithms for operator splitting," 19 January, 2023. 🇦🇺 

2022

• Talk at WOMBAT, "Optimal error bounds in the absence of constraint qualifications for conic problems," at Curtin University, 13-16 December, 2022. 🇦🇺 

• Talk at Groups and their Actions special session of AustMS, "Using optimisation and geometry to find automorphism groups for cones,"  at UNSW Sydney, 6-9 December, 2022. 🇦🇺 

• Talk at Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory special session of AustMS, "Dynamics-driven meta algorithms for operator splitting,"  at UNSW Sydney, 6-9 December, 2022. 🇦🇺 

• Curtin Centre for Optimisation and Decision Science Seminar, "Using dynamical geometry tools to study algorithms," at Curtin University, 18 August, 2022. 🇦🇺 

• Analysis Seminar, "Using dynamical geometry tools to study algorithms," at Portland State University, 3 June, 2022. 🇺🇸 (info)

• Invited talk at Workshop on Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Its Applications in memory of Professor Ronald E. Bruck, "A primal/dual computable approach to algorithmic improvement, based on dynamics," at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 4-6 April, 2022. (info) (session recording) 🇮🇱 (remote) 

• Talk at ANZIAM 2022, "Splitting algorithms: searching in the dark for a solution that might not exist," Perth, Australia 7-11 February 2022. (info) 🇦🇺 

2021

• Talk at Wombat, "Error bounds, facial residual functions and applications to the exponential cone," Newcastle, Australia, 13-17 December 2021. (info) 🇦🇺  (remote) 

• Talk at AustMS, "A primal/dual computable approach to improving spiraling algorithms, based on minimizing spherical surrogates for Lyapunov functions" (Newcastle, Australia), 9 December 2021.  (info) 🇦🇺  (remote)

• Workshop on the Intersection of Computation and Optimization talk, "Primal-dual computability and Lyapunov Surrogate Methods," 24 November 2021.  (info) 🇦🇺  (remote)

• Mathematics colloquium at Pacific University, "Using dynamical geometry tools to study algorithms," Forest Grove, Oregon, 5 October 2021. 🇺🇸 (remote)

• 2021 mathematics talk for the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Science Symposium Series (IQs3) for the Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics Department (CMPS) at UBC Okanagan, "Using dynamical geometry tools to study algorithms," 29 September 2021. (info) 🇨🇦  (remote)

• Selected flash poster presentation as an invited participant in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 21 September 2021. (info) 🇩🇪 (remote)

• Invited talk, "Error bounds, facial residual functions and applications to the exponential cone," IFORS, Seoul, 23-27 August, 2021. 🇰🇷  (info)  (remote)

• Kyoto University System Optimization Lab Seminar: "Using dynamical geometry tools to study algorithms," 7 July, 2021. 🇯🇵 (remote)

• Variational Analysis and Optimization Webinar: "A primal/dual computable approach to improving spiraling algorithms, based on minimizing spherical surrogates for Lyapunov functions," 2 June, 2021. (info) 🌏 (recording)  (remote)

• CARMA Colloquium: "The Art of Modern Homo Habilis Mathematicus, or: What Would Jon Borwein Do?" University of Newcastle, 25 February, 2021. (info) 🇦🇺  (remote)

• Invited Remote Seminar: "The Art of Modern Homo Habilis Mathematicus, or: What Would Jon Borwein Do?" University of British Columbia Okanagan, 17 February, 2021. 🇨🇦 (remote)

2020

• Invited Conference Talk, “Computable Centering Methods for Spiraling Algorithms and their Duals, with Motivations from the Theory of Lyapunov Functions,” AustMS 2020, Armidale, Australia, 8-11 December, 2020. (info) 🇦🇺 (remote)

• Conference Talk, “Computable Centering Methods for Spiraling Algorithms and their Duals, with Motivations from the Theory of Lyapunov Functions,” WoMBAT 2020, Online, 30 November - 4 December, 2020. (info) (recording) 🇦🇺 (remote)

• Keynote Talk: “Computable Centering Methods for Spiraling Algorithms and their Duals, with Motivations from the Theory of Lyapunov Functions,” International conference on recent trends in analysis and optimization, Bhopal, India, 9-11 November, 2020. (info) 🇮🇳  (original in-person invitation for conference scheduled in March; conference was rescheduled to November due to covid, and talk given remotely)

• Invited Research Seminar: “The power of bridges, models, and computational discovery, and a case study on computable centering methods for algorithms that spiral,” University of British Columbia Okanagan, June 23, 2020. 🇨🇦 (remote)

2019

• Conference Talk, "On the Projected Polar Proximal Point Algorithm," Australian Mathematical Society 2019, Monash University, Melbourne, 3-6 December, 2019. (info) 🇦🇺

• Conference Talk, "Error Bounds for the Exposed Faces of the Exponential Cone," Wombat, Swinburne University, Melbourne, 8-10 December, 2019. (info) 🇦🇺

• Invited Conference Talk, "Splitting methods: searching in the dark for a solution that might not exist," Uncertainty Quantification Workshop, Australian National University, Canberra, 25-29 November, 2019. (info) 🇦🇺

• Invited Conference Talk, "On the Projected Polar Proximal Point Algorithm," Workshop on Variational Analysis and Optimization in Kelowna, 12-13 August 2019. (info) 🇨🇦

• Conference talk, "The Fitzpatrick Distance," ICCOPT 2019 in Berlin, 2-8 August 2019. (info) 🇩🇪 

• Seminar, "On the Projected Polar Proximal Point Algorithm," University of Goettingen Oberseminar, Germany, July 31, 2019. (info) 🇩🇪 

• Invited Conference Talk: "On the Projected Polar Proximal Point Algorithm," The 13th International Conference on Fixed Point Theory and Its Applications, XinXiang, China, 9-13 July 2019. (info) 🇨🇳 

• University of Newcastle CARMA Colloquium: "Optimisation models for data science and machine learning." Newcastle, Australia, 18 April, 2019. (info) 🇦🇺

• Australian National University Mathematical Sciences Institute Colloquium: "Using polynomials and complex analysis to check for numerical error in the experimental study of an optimisation algorithm." Canberra, Australia, 11 April, 2019. (info) 🇦🇺

2018

• Invited Conference Talk: "Experimental Discovery in Variational Analysis: Modern Tools and Case Studies," Workshop on Variational Analysis and Stochastic Optimization, Hong Kong, 27-29 September, 2018. (info) 🇭🇰 

• Seminar: ``Experimental Discovery: Tools and Methods,'' UNSW Applied Mathematics Seminar Series, Sydney, Australia, 14 September, 2018. (info) 🇦🇺

• Talk: “Nonlinear optimization: case studies in experimental discovery,” AVOCADO, Newcastle, Australia, 25-26 August, 2018. (info) 🇦🇺

• Conference Talk, ``Douglas--Rachford Method: a View from Strongly Quasinonexpansive Operators,'' AMSI Optimize, Melbourne, Australia, 18-22 June, 2018. (info) 🇦🇺

• Invited Workshop Talk: ``Dynamical Tools for Studying Fixed Point Methods.'' Workshop on Fixed Points and Applications, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 21 May 2018. (info) 🇦🇺

• CARMA Seminar (CARMA Special Semester in Computation and Visualization): Methods of Experiment by Visualization in Research Mathematics, CARMA, University of Newcastle, Newcastle Australia, 1 May 2018. (info) 🇦🇺

• Invited Conference talk: ``Proximal Averages for Minimization of Entropy Functionals,'' Spring Western Sectional Meeting Portland State University, Portland, OR 14-15 April 2018. (info) 🇺🇸 

• Portland State University Analysis Seminar: ``Regularizing with Bregman-Moreau Envelopes,'' Portland, Oregon 13 April 2018. (info) 🇺🇸 

• Portland State University Math Club Talk: ``Phase Portraits of Hyperbolic Geometry,'' Portland, Oregon 12 April 2018. (info) 🇺🇸 

• Conference Talk: ``Proximal Averages for Minimization of Entropy Functionals,'' Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 19-21 February 2018. (info) 🇦🇺

2017

• Invited conference talk: ``Strong convergence for relaxed iterated approximate projection methods for convex feasibility problems,'' 61st annual meeting of Australian Mathematical Society, Sydney, Australia 12-15 December 2017. (info) 🇦🇺

• Invited conference talk: ``The Lambert W Function in Optimization and Analysis,'' Joint Optimization Conference, Perth, Australia 4-10 December 2017. (info) 🇦🇺

• Workshop talk: "Douglas-Rachford Method for Boundary Valued ODEs," WoMBaT 2017, Melbourne, Australia 30 November - 2 December 2017. (info) 🇦🇺

• Conference Talk: "Phase Portraits of Hyperbolic Geometry," Jonathan M. Borwein Commemorative Conference, Newcastle, Australia 25-29 September 2017. (info) 🇦🇺

• Conference Talk: "The Douglas-Rachford method for finding intersections of hypersurfaces," Splitting Algorithms, Modern Operator Theory and Applications, Casa Matematica Oaxaca, Mexico, 17-22 September 2017. (info) (recording) 🇲🇽 

• Workshop Talk: "Dynamics of the Douglas-Rachford method for Ellipses and p-Spheres," West Coast Optimization Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 16 September 2017. (info) 🇨🇦 

• Seminar (split topic): "Douglas-Rachford Method for Hypersurfaces and Regularizing with Bregman-Moreau envelopes," COCANA, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada 14 September 2017. (info) 🇨🇦 

• Invited talk, "Dynamics of the Douglas-Rachford Method for Ellipses and p-Spheres," 12th International Conference on Fixed Point Theory and its Applications, Newcastle, Australia, 24-28 July 2017. (info) 🇦🇺

• Conference Talk: "Regularising with Bregman-Moreau envelopes," AMSI Optimise, Melbourne, Australia, 29 June, 2017. (info) 🇦🇺

• Portland State University Math Club Talk: "Dynamics of the Douglas-Rachford Method for Ellipses and p-Spheres," 4:15pm February 1, 2017.  (info) 🇺🇸 (remote)

2016

• Conference Talk: "Dynamics of the Douglas-Rachford Method for Ellipses and p-Spheres," Australian Mathematical Society, Canberra, Australia, December 5, 2016. (info) 🇦🇺

• Conference Talk: "Phase Plotting for Differential Geometry," Tools and Mathematics (in memory of Jon Borwein), Sydney, Australia, December 29, 2016. (info) 🇦🇺

• Workshop: "Douglas Rachford for ODEs." WOMBAT, Melbourne, Australia, November 25, 2016. (info) 🇦🇺

• Conference Talk: "Lambert W in Optimization." ANZIAM-ZPAMS Joint Conference, Hangzhou, China, November 13, 2016. (info) 🇨🇳 

• PHD Confirmation Seminar: "Experimental Variations on Convex and Non-Convex Optimization." University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, August 15, 2016. (info) 🇦🇺

• Conference Talk: "Lambert W in Optimization." Optimization Down Under Conference, RMIT, Melbourne VIC, Australia, July 20, 2016. (info) 🇦🇺

• Workshop: "A Study on Non-Convex Douglas Rachford."  Informal Workshop on Nonlinear Optimization, London, ON, Canada, June 24, 2016.   (info) 🇨🇦 

• Conference talk: "Continued Logarithms." ACMES conference, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, May 15, 2016.  (info) (recording) 🇨🇦 

2015

• Thesis Presentation: “Understanding the Quasi-Relative Interior.” Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, June 2015. 🇺🇸 

• Math Club Talk: “Fenchel Duality.” Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, April 2015.' 🇺🇸