New appointment as of Fall 2009: The University of Edinburgh
	Peter Richtárik [TeX: Richt\'{a}rik] Postdoctoral Fellow, host: Yu. Nesterov Department of Mathematical Engineering (INMA), and Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) Bâtiment Euler (A-116) Avenue Georges Lemaitre 4 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, BELGIUM e-mail: peter dot richtarik at uclouvain dot be

Teaching

Spring 2009: INMA 2460 Nonlinear Optimization

Education

Ph.D., Operations Research, Cornell University, 2007, advisor: Mike Todd
M.S., Operations Research, Cornell University, 2006
Mgr, Mathematics, Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, 2001
Bc, Management, Comenius University, Faculty of Management, 2000
Bc, Mathematics, Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, 2000

Research Interests

Large-scale convex optimization, fast gradient and first-order methods, structural programming, optimization in relative scale.

Publications

• Approximate level method [CORE DP] [Optimization Online]
  Peter Richtárik
  CORE Discussion Paper #2008/83, submitted to Mathematical Programming
• Generalized power method for sparse principal component analysis [CORE DP] [arXiv] [Optimization Online] [slides] [poster]
  Michel Journée, Yurii Nesterov, Peter Richtárik and Rodolphe Sepulchre
  CORE Discussion Paper #2008/70, submitted to Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Simultaneously solving seven optimization problems in relative scale [preprint] [Optimization Online]
  Peter Richtárik
  submitted to Mathematical Programming
• Improved algorithms for convex minimization in relative scale [preprint] [Optimization Online] [slides]
  Peter Richtárik
  submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization
• Some algorithms for large-scale convex and linear minimization in relative scale [thesis]
  Peter Richtárik
  Ph.D. thesis, ORIE, Cornell University

Recent and Upcoming Conferences

• INFORMS annual meeting, San Diego, USA, October 11--14, 2009 (upcoming)
• BFG 2009, 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization, Leuven, Belgium, September 14--18, 2009 (upcoming)
• ISMP 2009, XX. International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Chicago, USA, August 23--28, 2009 (upcoming)
• ALGORITMY 2009, Conference on Scientific Computing, High Tatras, Slovakia, March 15--20, 2009
• ORBEL 2009, 23rd Belgian Conference on Operations Research, Leuven, Belgium, February 5--6
• TAM 2008, Týžden absolventov Matfyzu 2008, Fakulta Matematiky, Fyziky a Informatiky Univerzity Komenského, Bratislava, December 19, 2008 [slides]
• VOCAL 2008, Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms, Veszprem, Hungary, December 15--17, 2008 [slides]
• DYSCO Workshop, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, November 2008 [poster]
• INFORMS annual meeting, Washington, USA, October 12--15, 2008
• MOPTA 2008, Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications, Guelph, Canada, August 2008
• HPOPT 2008, 10th International Workshop on High Performance Optimization Techniques. Algebraic Structure in Semidefinite Programming, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, June 2008
• APMOD 2008, International Conference on Applied Mathematical Programming and Modelling, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 2008
• Research Retreat, Matagne-la-Petite, May 2008, group photo
• INFORMS Optimization Conference 2008, Theory, Computation and Emerging Applications, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 2008
• 14th Mathematical Programming Meeting, Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium, March 2008

More stuff

• PREDBARÁ.COM (blog in Slovak)