Mats Pettersson

Focus Period Lund 2027 Professor Blekinge Institute of Technology – BTH (Sweden) Mats Pettersson received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has more...
The art and science of optimization

The art and science of optimization

The second ELLIIT focus period taking place in spring of 2026 is hosted by Lund University, and concerns optimization for learning. The focus period symposium took place in beginning of May, bringing together 80 attendees for discussing theory and practice of...
Newsletter issue 29 published

Newsletter issue 29 published

The April issue of the ELLIIT newsletter is here, read up on the newest ELLIIT calls, awards and publications!   ELLIIT Newsletter issue 29 - April 2026 Download the newsletter by clicking the icon. Previous newsletters can be found under About and Documents in the...

Hayden Schaeffer

Focus Period lund 2026 Professor University of California – UCLA (USA) Hayden Schaeffer is the Director of Applied Mathematics and a Professor of Mathematicsat the University of California, Los Angeles. His research is in mathematical and scientific machine...

Andreea-Alexandra Musat

Focus Period lund 2026 PhD Student École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL (Switzerland) Andreea-Alexandra Musat is a PhD student at EPFL, supervised by Prof. Nicolas Boumal. She works on nonconvex optimization, sometimes in settings with geometric...