Prof. Charles E. Chidume

(International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy)

Monotone Operators in Optimization Theory

Abstract: Subdifferentials and gradients of real-valued convex differentiable functions are examples of monotone operators. The variational inequality problems associated with these operators lead to solutions of several minimization problems.

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
7:30 - 8:30 PM
Room MH 116