Algebraic Certificates in Optimization and Beyond

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 12:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Greg Blekherman – Georgia Tech, School of Math – https://sites.google.com/site/grrigg/
Organizer
Robert Krone
I will discuss algebraic (sums of squares based) certificates for nonnegativity of polynomials and their use in optimization. Then I will discuss some recent results on degree bounds and state some open questions.