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.

Newest first

Recent and selected

Oct 2026

2026 Annual Meeting of the New York–New Jersey–Pennsylvania Section of SIAM (SIAM NNP26), Rutgers University, Piscataway

Oct 2026

“Robust and Risk-Sensitive Acceleration in Gradient Methods” — Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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.