{"id":151,"date":"2011-05-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2011\/05\/04\/research-seminar-stochastic-optimization-on-continuous-domains-with-finite-time-guarantees-by-markov-chain-monte-carlo-methods-thursday-12th-may-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"research-seminar-stochastic-optimization-on-continuous-domains-with-finite-time-guarantees-by-markov-chain-monte-carlo-methods-thursday-12th-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2011\/05\/04\/research-seminar-stochastic-optimization-on-continuous-domains-with-finite-time-guarantees-by-markov-chain-monte-carlo-methods-thursday-12th-may-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar &#8211; Stochastic optimization on continuous domains with finite-time guarantees by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods &#8211; Thursday, 12th May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The next School Research Seminar will be given by Dr Andrea Lecchini-Visintini, Control Group, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester in Jennison Seminar Room 3 on Thursday, 12th May at 2.30 pm<br \/>\nThe seminar will introduce bounds on the finite-time performance of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms in solving global stochastic optimization problems defined over continuous domains. It will be shown that MCMC algorithms with finite-time guarantees can be developed with a proper choice of the target distribution and by studying their convergence in total variation norm. A comparison with other state-of-the art methods for solving stochastic programming problems with finite-time guarantees will also be presented.<br \/>\nPlease contact Professor Sarah Spurgeon (s.k.spurgeon@kent.ac.uk) for further details.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next School Research Seminar will be given by Dr Andrea Lecchini-Visintini, Control Group, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester in Jennison Seminar Room 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2011\/05\/04\/research-seminar-stochastic-optimization-on-continuous-domains-with-finite-time-guarantees-by-markov-chain-monte-carlo-methods-thursday-12th-may-2011\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}