During the month of October, I traveled to various schools throughout Southern California to give talks. Here is the list:

• ComNetS Seminar at the University of Southern California
• Systems and Control Research Seminar at UCLA
• Optimization and Control Seminar at UC San Diego
• CMS Seminar at Caltech
• CCDC Seminar at UC Santa Barbara

I had a wonderful time and I am grateful to each of these schools for hosting me during my visits. Pictured on the right is the Sun God, one of the many statues on the UC San Diego campus. The talks I gave were about my recent work with Andy Packard and Ben Recht on the topic of using robust control to analyze and design optimization algorithms. A preprint of this work is available on arXiv.