Archives for UCLOUVAIN
June 20, 2018
INGI Seminar
Recent Innovations in Clustering - Discovery, Explanation and Twitter Experiments
by Ian Davidson, UC Davis - California
The idea of taking a collection of instances (or a graph) and breaking it into sub-graphs, clusters, or communities is popular in many fields with many variations. We...
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June 19, 2018
Improving maize productivity in northern Benin through...
ELI - Soutenance publique de thèse – Mr. Gbènoukpo Pierre TOVIHOUDJI
Promoteurs : Professeur Charles Bielders (UCL) et Professeur J.B. Irénikatché Akponikpè (Université Parakou, Bénin)
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June 19, 2018
Operations Research Seminar
Alexander Gasnikov, MPTI, Moscow
Optimal Method for Distributed Convex Optimization and Some Examples
Alexander Gasnikov, MPTI, Moscow
Based on the works:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.00232.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.02933.pdf
we describe optimal first-order methods for decentralized distributed convex optimization...
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June 19, 2018
Seminar
Macro Lunch - Bruno Van der Linden
Bruno Van der Linden
(IRES, UCLouvain)
will give a presentation on
Natural resources, (un)employment and working time
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June 15, 2018
Seminar
UCLouvain Economics Seminar - Melanie Meng Xue
Melanie Meng Xue
(Northwestern University)
will give a presentation on
High-Value Work and the Rise of Women:
The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China
Abstract
The cotton revolution (1300-1840 AD) in imperial China constituted a substantial shock to the value of women's...
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