I recently attended the IMA Workshop on Optimization and Parsimonious Modeling at the University of Minnesota. This was my first opportunity to attend an optimization workshop and interact with a new community of researchers. Although the controls and optimization communities do intersect, there were many new faces here. Thanks to the great venue and moderate size of the event, I had the opportunity to meet and have great discussions with many new researchers outside my usual field. I particularly enjoyed the workshop format; a single-track of talks with frequent breaks for discussion. Kudos to the organizers for a job well done!

I also had the opportunity to present a poster about my work on analyzing optimization algorithms using integral quadratic constraints. The poster can be found here.