Optimization notes

• Looking through lecture notes on convex optimization by Nisheeth Vishnoi. 
• Celebration of Vijay Vazirani's 60th birthday, schedule looks great.
• The winners of the 2018 ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award are: 
• Varian, Hal R. "Position auctions." international Journal of industrial Organization 25.6 (2007): 1163-1178. 
• Edelman, Benjamin, Michael Ostrovsky, and Michael Schwarz. "Internet advertising and the generalized second-price auction: Selling billions of dollars worth of keywords." American economic review 97.1 (2007): 242-259. 
• Aggarwal, Gagan, Ashish Goel, and Rajeev Motwani. "Truthful auctions for pricing search keywords." Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Electronic commerce. ACM, 2006.