BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250813T155746EDT-3577JBUnLp@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250813T195746Z DESCRIPTION:Title: Hidden convexity in nonconvex optimization.\n\nAbstract:  In nonconvex optimization\, not only the objective but even the feasible set may lack convexity. It may seem therefore that the concepts and method ology of convex optimization can no longer have a fundamental role\, but t his is actually wrong. Standard sufficient conditions for local optimality in nonlinear programming and its extensions turn out to correspond to cha racterizing optimality in terms of a local convex-concave-type saddle poin t of an augmented Lagrangian function. Algorithms that effectively in both primal and dual elements are thereby revealed as working just as they wou ld in the convex case.\n\n \n\n \n\nTo register contact : appliedseminars [at] math.mcgill.ca\n DTSTART:20211018T200000Z DTEND:20211018T210000Z SUMMARY:Terry Rockafellar (University of Washington) URL:/mathstat/channels/event/terry-rockafellar-univers ity-washington-333856 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR