POEMA Learning Week 2

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Category
Project Workshops
Date
2021-09-13 14:00 - 2021-09-17 12:00
Venue
31 Allées Jules Guesde, 31400 Toulouse
Email
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Website
http://poema-network.eu

Introduction

The event of POEMA Learning Week 2 will focus on algorithms and modelling methods.

The event will be organized from Monday 13 September 2021 (afternoon) to Friday 17 September 2021 (noon).

The content of this Learning Week 2 includes: 

  • 4 courses and tutorials (12 hours in total) to broaden the scientific scope of the ESRs with additional competencies, specific to the domain of polynomial optimization.
  • Scientific talks from experts in the domain of polynomial optimization and POEMA ESRs
  • Julia software training
  • Soft skills training on marketing the research experience, identifying personal skills and demonstrating them by storytelling.

Venue

The Online Learning Week 2 will be organized at: 

Le Village

Address : 31 Allées Jules Guesde, 31400 Toulouse

Website: https://www.levillagebycatoulouse.com/

Registration

The event is free but with limited places. Please register to join us if only you can come to Toulouse !

In case you would like to attend the event remotely, please drop an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will send you the connection detail prior to the event date. Please be kindly noted that the physical attendance is encouraged and should be on priority.

The registration does not include accommodation and transportation cost to Toulouse but only the meeting package including coffee breaks and lunches.

Presentations and Tutorials

You can find HERE all the tutorials and presentations of the speakers during this event.

Agenda

 The agenda of the Learning Week 2 is as follows:

Time (CEST)
 Monday 13 September 2021
14:00-14:05   Opening speech (Bernard Mourrain)
14:05-15:45    Julia software training:Sum-of-Squares optimization with JuMP in Julia by Benoît Legat (UCLouvain)
15:45-16:00   Short break
16:00-17:00   Julia software training:Sum-of-Squares optimization with JuMP in Julia by Benoît Legat (UCLouvain)

 

Time (CEST)
 Tuesday 14 September 2021
09:00-11:00  POEMA ESRs' talks (ESR1 - Andrew Ferguson, ESR4 - Alejandro Nevado,  ESR12 - Arefeh Kavand )
11:00-11:15  Short break
11:15-12:15

 Talk: SDPNAL+: A MATLAB software package for large-scale SDPs with a user-friendly interface by

 Defeng Sun (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
12:15-14:00  Lunch
14:00-15:45

 Lecture: Relative entropy methods in constrained polynomial and signomial optimization by Thorsten  

 Theobald (University of Frankfurt)
15:45-16:00  Short break
16:00-17:00  Tutorial session from lecture by Thorsten Theobald (University of Frankfurt)

   

Time (CEST)
 Wednesday 15 September 2021 - Available only for POEMA Phds

Soft skills training: Marketing your research experience, identifying your skills and demonstrating them by storytelling - ABG 
09:00 - 11:00  
  • Introduction
  • Effective communication
  • Your PhD: a professional experience in project management
  • Being aware of the differences between project management in and outside academia 
11:00 - 11:15   Short break
11:15 - 12:15
  • Practice “Analyzing the PhD as a project management experience”:

     Identifying the different steps and resources of your project, knowing how to talk about them.   

     Individual exercise

  • Discussion in plenum.
12:15 - 14:00   Lunch
14:00 - 15:45  
  • Identifying your skills and demonstrating them by storytelling
  • PhD transferable and personal skills & achievements
  • Convincing recruiters by storytelling: the STAR method
15:45 - 16:00   Short break
16:00 - 17:00  
  • Practice “Illustrating a skill by telling a story” :

        Individual preparation, presentation in small groups

  • Feedback in plenum
  • Conclusion

 

Time (CEST)
 Thursday 16 September 2021
09:00-10:45

  Lecture on sparse polynomial optimization by Victor Magron (LAAS-CNRS)
10:45-11:00   Short break
11:00-12:00   Tutorial session from lecture by Victor Magron (LAAS-CNRS)
12:00-14:00   Lunch
14:00-15:30

  Lecture: On the solution of Semidefinite Programs by Michael Stingl (Friedrich Alexander University

  Erlangen-Nuremberg)
15:30-15:45   Short break
15:45-17:15   Tutorial session from lecture by Michael Stingl (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

 

Time (CEST)
 Friday 17 September 2021
09:00-10:45  

  Lecture : An Introduction to Circuitpolynomials and AM/GM-based Certificates of Nonnegativity

  by Timo de Wolff (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
10:45-11:00   Short break
11:00-12:00   Tutorial session from lecture by Timo de Wolff (Technische Universität Braunschweig)

Accommodation

Covid test addresses in Toulouse

You can find here the list of addresses where covid tests can be done in Toulouse.

The nearest test place, 600m from Le Village - the event venue is Esplanade Alain Savary (between allées Frédéric Mistral and Serge Ravanel, near the Monument to the Glory of the Resistance). Access: Bus : L7 et 44 - Stop at : Grand Rond, jardin des Plantes or Métro ligne B, station : François Verdier ou Carmes.

 

 

 
 

All Dates

  • From 2021-09-13 14:00 to 2021-09-17 12:00

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