The Department of Probability and Statistics organizes the "The Probability and Statistics Seminar August 2024" featuring a presentation by Dr. Clément Elvira from Centrale Supélec, Rennes, France. Detailed information about the presentation and the speaker is as follows:

• Speaker: Assist. Prof. Ph.D. Clément Elvira - CentraleSupélec (CS), Rennes, France.
• Time: 9:00 am, Tuesday, August 19, 2024.
• Venue: Room F207 - University of Science, Campus 1, 227 Nguyen Van Cu, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City.
• Title: Safe Screening: An introduction and perspectives
• Abstract: 
  Convex optimization problems with additive penalty terms arise in numerous applications, including Signal Processing and Machine Learning. A key factor underlying their success is their ability to promote solutions with a desired structure, such as sparsity. This talk will delve into the fundamental concepts behind "safe screening", an acceleration technique for sparsity-promoting optimization problems. Specifically, safe screening involves designing tests to detect zero entries in the solution of the problem. We will then present the latest contributions in this field and discuss future perspectives.

The students, master’s students and Ph.D. students and anyone interested are invited to participate in the meeting. To attend, please click on the link.