Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• Francis Bach, Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2018

• Francis Bach, Best Paper Award, NeurIPS 2018.

• Francis Bach included in the report Highly cited researchers, year 2018, Clarivate Analytics, 2018

• Nicolas Flammarion, PhD thesis award in the Programme Gaspard Monge, Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard, 2018.

• Adrien Taylor, Tucker Prize (finalist) 2018 (dissertation prize by the Math- ematical Optimization Society for 2015-2017).

• Adrien Taylor, IBM/FNRS innovation award 2018 (dissertation prize for original contributions to informatics).

• Adrien Taylor, Icteam thesis award 2018 (dissertation award by the icteam institute of UCLouvain, Belgium).

• Adrien Taylor, Best paper award 2018 from the journal Optimization Letters for the paper On the worst-case complexity of the gradient method with exact line search for smooth strongly convex functions, Etienne De Klerk, François Glineur, Adrien Taylor. journal=.