Francisco N. C. Sobral

• Derivative-free methods
• Nonlinear programming
• Packing problems
• Machine Learning
• Parallel and distributed computing

Publications

Software

• RAFF.jl - Julia package for fitting functions to data with automatic outlier detection
• Pack-U - Square packing
• FIRD - Filter Inexact Restoration Derivative-free algorithm
• TRDF - Trust Region Derivative-Free algorithm for constrained problems
• Skinny - An algorithm for constrained derivative-free problems
• GENPACK - Packing of circular and spherical items using nonlinear programming

• Nonlinear optimization (Sem. 2/2020)
• Derivative-free trust-region algorithms (Sem. 2/2020)

• Introd. ao Software Matemático (Sem. 1/2019)
• Todos os cursos...

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Seminários de Otimização e Afins (in Portuguese)