Mert Gürbüzbalaban

Talks

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.

Upcoming

Upcoming

Oct 7, 2026
Invited talk

“Robust and Risk-Sensitive Acceleration in Gradient Methods”

Financial/Actuarial Mathematics Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · East Hall · 4:00–5:00 pm

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Recent and selected

2025

Portuguese–American Optimization Workshop (PAOW)

2024

DIMACS Workshop on Modeling Randomness in Neural Network Training, Rutgers

2024

One World Optimization Seminar (online, hosted by the University of Vienna)

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.