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Coralia Cartis

Prof. Coralia Cartis

PhD Mathematics, University of Cambridge (2005)
Status
Academic Faculty

Professor of Numerical Optimization, Mathematical Institute

Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics, Balliol College

Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute (London)

+44 1865 273526
Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/cartis
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0963-5550
Research groups
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Machine Learning and Data Science
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Major / recent publications
  • C. Cartis and A. Thompson
    An exact tree projection algorithm for wavelets
    ERGO Technical Report 13-006, School of Mathematics, Edinburgh University, 2013. 
    To appear in IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2013)
  • S. F. B. Tett, M. J. Mineter, C. Cartis, D. J. Rowlands and P. Liu
    Can top of atmosphere radiation measurements constrain climate predictions? Part 1: Tuning 
    To appear in Journal of Climate (2013)
  • S. F. B. Tett, D. J. Rowlands, M. J. Mineter and C. Cartis
    Can top of atmosphere radiation measurements constrain climate predictions? Part 2: Climate Sensitivity 
    To appear in Journal of Climate (2013)
  • C. Cartis, N. I. M. Gould and Ph. L. Toint
    On the evaluation complexity of cubic regularization methods for potentially rank-deficient nonlinear
    least-squares problems and its relevance to constrained nonlinear optimization
    SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol. 23(3):1553--1574, 2013. (doi: 10.1137/120869687)
  • C. Cartis, N. I. M. Gould and Ph. L. Toint
    How much patience do you have? A worst-case perspective on smooth nonconvex optimization
    OPTIMA 88, 2012. (feature article of the Mathematical Optimization Society Newsletter)
  • C. Cartis, N. I. M. Gould and Ph. L. Toint.
    On the complexity of finding first-order critical points in constrained nonlinear programming.
    Mathematical Programming Series A, (DOI) 10.1007/s10107-012-0617-9 (Online First, 2012)
  • C. Cartis, N. I. M. Gould and Ph. L. Toint
    Adaptive cubic regularisation methods for unconstrained optimization. Part II: worst-case function- and derivative-evaluation complexity
    Mathematical Programming, vol. 130(2), pp. 295--319, 2011.
  • C. Cartis, N. I. M. Gould and Ph. L. Toint
    Adaptive cubic regularisation methods for unconstrained optimization. Part I: motivation, convergence and numerical results
    Mathematical Programming, vol. 127(2), pp. 245--295, 2011.
  • J. D. Blanchard, C. Cartis, J. Tanner and A. Thompson
    Phase transitions for greedy sparse approximation algorithms
    Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, vol. 30(2), pp. 188--203, 2011.
  • J. D. Blanchard, C. Cartis and J. Tanner
    Compressed sensing: how sharp is the restricted isometry property?
    SIAM Review, vol. 53(1), pp. 105--125, 2011.
Prizes, awards, and scholarships

Leslie Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis 2005 (second place)

2019 Best paper prize of the Mathematical Programming Computation Journal (joint)

INFORMS Simulation Society Outstanding Paper Prize, 2021 (joint)

International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), invited sectional speaker, 2022

EUROPT Fellow 2023

SIAM Fellow 2023

 

Recent publications
Cubic-quartic regularization models for solving polynomial subproblems in third-order tensor methods
Cartis, C Zhu, W Mathematical Programming 1-53 (06 Jan 2025)
Using Shortened Spin‐Ups to Speed Up Ocean Biogeochemical Model Optimization
Oliver, S Khatiwala, S Cartis, C Ward, B Kriest, I Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems volume 16 issue 9 (10 Sep 2024)
Convergent least-squares optimization methods for variational data assimilation
Cartis, C Kaouri, M Lawless, A Nichols, N Optimization volume ahead-of-print issue ahead-of-print 1-35 (19 Aug 2024)
Registration of algebraic varieties using Riemannian optimization.
Goyens, F Cartis, C Chrétien, S CoRR volume abs/2401.08562 (2024)
Corrigendum to “Nonlinear matrix recovery using optimization on the Grassmann manifold” [Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 62 (2023) 498–542]
Goyens, F Cartis, C Eftekhari, A Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis volume 63 93 (01 Mar 2023)
Research interests

Algorithm design, analysis and implementation for linear and nonlinear optimization, convex and nonconvex problems, large-scale 

  • Complexity of optimization problems and algorithms
  • Interconnections between dynamical systems and continuous optimization
  • Applications: compressed sensing and sparse approximation, machine learning
  • Applications: inverse problems in climate modelling
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