Mathematical Sciences: Nonlinear Optimization: Algorithms   and Theory
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Professor Han proposes to study new theoretical and computational               aspects of certain optimization problems.  His main interests lie in            designing a conceptual framework for computer oriented procedures that          seek a minimum of a function of many variables subject to constraints.          The class of problems that Han is studying involves smooth, i.e.                differentiable functions of n variables which may be approximated by            quadratic functions.  The variables are not restricted to integer               values.  This class of problems is often solved by iterative methods in         which the minimization is done sequentially by searching for minimum of         the function along certain special directions.  With the development of         new computer architectures it became more and more important to adapt           the existing procedures to new possibilities.  In parallel processing,          arithmetic and logical operations can be done by many processors at the         same time.  Han proposes to investigate minimization methods that are           based on a decompositon of the problem into several search problems             with directions that are independent in a certain sense.  Such                  techniques could become useful in parallel processing and could yield a         important speed-up of practical computing.
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