UPenn FOLDS Seminar

FOLDS seminar (new!)

Foundations of Optimization, Learning, and Data Science

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What: This seminar features leading experts in optimization, learning, and data science. Topics span algorithms, complexity, modeling, applications, and mathematical underpinnings.
Why: Foundational advances in these fields are increasingly intertwined. This seminar serves as a university-wide hub to bring together the many communities across UPenn interested in optimization, learning, and data science — in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Wharton OID, etc. To help promote this internal interaction, several speakers will be from UPenn.
Funding: We are grateful to the IDEAS Center for Innovation in Data Engineering and Science, Penn AI, and the Wharton Department of Statistics and Data Science.
Archived schedules: Fall 2025. (Previously: this seminar series evolved from the UPenn Optimization seminar Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

Schedule for Spring 2026