Mert Gürbüzbalaban

Recent and selected talks


Invited seminars, workshop talks, and colloquia — the recent ones and a few that mattered. The complete list of talks and conference presentations is in the CV.

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Recent and selected

Oct 2026

“Robust and Risk-Sensitive Acceleration in Gradient Methods” — Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, East Hall · 4:00–5:00 pm

2025

Portuguese–American Optimization Workshop (PAOW)

2024

DIMACS Workshop on Modeling Randomness in Neural Network Training, Rutgers

2024

“High probability and risk-averse guarantees for stochastic saddle point problems” — One World Optimization Seminar, University of Vienna Recording

2024

Heavy Tails in Machine Learning workshop — Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge

2024

Rutgers Business School — Dean’s Research Professor Seminar

2022

Erice Workshop on Robustness and Resilience in Stochastic Optimization and Statistical Learning: Mathematical Foundations

2021

MIT — OptML++ Seminar

2021

SIAM Conference on Optimization

2019

Princeton University — ORFE Seminar

2019

Northwestern University — Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences

2019

NeurIPS Workshop on Optimization

2018

MIT — LIDS Seminar

2017

Los Alamos National Laboratory

The full record of seminars and conference presentations since 2010 is in the CV; the CV page summarizes it.