Talks

Below you can find my research talks with their respective slides.


Invited talks

First-order splitting methods for decentralised optimisation slides
ANZIAM SigmaOpt Workshop, Coffs Harbour, Australia - February 2025

Variational analysis for weakly convex optimisation: theory and algorithms slides
Workshop on Continuous and Dynamic Optimization, University of O’Higgins, Rancagua, Chile - December 2024

Proximal splitting methods through the lenses of Moreau-type envelopes slides
Optimization Workshop: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia - December 2024

Weakly convex Douglas-Rachford splitting via descent of proximal merit functions slides
Mathematical Optimization meets Energy Industry, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - June 2023


Contributed and seminar talks

Relocated fixed-point iteration and distributed splitting methods slides

  • Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society 2025 - La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia - December 2025
  • WOMBAT 2025 - University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia - November 2025
  • Optimisation Days 2025 - University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia - November 2025
  • Continuous Optimisation Seminar UNICAMP-USP - online (Brazil) - August 2025
  • Unimelb Optimisation Seminar - Melbourne, Australia - August 2025
  • EUROPT 2025 - University of Southampton, UK - July 2025

First-order splitting methods for decentralised optimisation slides

  • ICCOPT 2025 - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US - July 2025
  • CTAC 2024 - Monash University, Melbourne, Australia - November 2024
  • Optimization Seminar - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, US - July 2024
  • EUROPT 2024 - Lund University, Sweden - June 2024

Proximal splitting methods through the lenses of Moreau-type envelopes slides

  • MATRIX Workshop on Splitting Algorithms - Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities - University of Melbourne, Australia - February 2025
  • Maths and Stats colloquium - University of Melbourne, Australia - August 2024
  • WOMBAT/WICO 2023 - University of Sydney, Australia - December 2023

Variational analysis for weakly convex optimisation: theory and algorithms slides

  • WOMBAT 2024 - University of Sydney, Australia - December 2024
  • Optimisation Seminar - University of Melbourne, Australia - November 2023

Proximal splitting methods avoid strict saddle points of weakly convex problems slides

  • ISMP 2024 - Montreal, Canada - July 2024

Why optimisation methods find the solutions we want? slides

  • Early Career Research Summit 2024 - University of Melbourne, Australia - February 2024

A dual embedded forward-backward scenario decomposition method for convex stochastic programming slides

  • ICSP 2023 - University of California, Davis CA, US - July 2023

Weakly convex Douglas-Rachford splitting via descent of proximal merit functions slides

  • SIAM OP23 - Seattle WA, US - June 2023
  • Optimization and Equilibrium Seminar - CMM, University of Chile, Chile - April 2023

A unifying framework for descent methods in weakly convex optimisation slides

  • Optim and ML Seminar - Rutgers Business School, New Brunswick NJ, US - September 2022
  • Continuous Optimization Seminar UNICAMP-USP - online, Brazil - October 2021
  • XV IMECC Postgraduate Scientific Meeting - online (Brazil) - November 2020

A bundle-like approach to induce descent in the progressive hedging algorithm slides

  • ICCOPT 2022 - Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA, US - July 2022
  • Robustness and Resilience in Stochastic Optimization and Statistical Learning: Mathematical Foundations workshop - Erice, Italy - May 2022

Planning energy investment under uncertainty: primal and dual views slides

  • PGMO days 2020 - online (France) - December 2020
  • Continuous Optimization Seminar UNICAMP-USP - online, Brazil - May 2020
  • ICCOPT 2019 - TU Berlin, Germany - August 2019
  • ICSP 2019 - NTNU, Trondheim, Norway - July 2019
  • XII Brazilian Workshop on Continuous Optimization - Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil - July 2018