Brendan Ames
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Lind Hall Room 352
bpames (at) ima (dot) umn (dot) edu

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Preprints

B. Ames. Robust convex relaxation for the planted clique and densest k-subgraph problems.
Submitted for publication 2013.
(arxiv)     (optimization online)     (supplemental material)     (matlab code)

B. Ames. Guaranteed clustering and biclustering via semidefinite programming.
Submitted for publication 2012.
(arxiv)

Publications

B. Ames and S. Vavasis. Convex optimization for the planted k-disjoint-clique problem.
To appear in Mathematical Programming.
(preprint)

B. Ames and H. Sendov. A New derivation of a formula by Kato.
Linear Algebra and Its Applications. 436 (2012), pp. 722-730, 2012
(pdf)

B. Ames and S. Vavasis. Nuclear norm minimization for the planted clique and biclique problems.
Mathematical Programming. 129(1): 69-89, 2011.
(arxiv)

B. Ames and H. Sendov. Asymptotic expansions of the ordered spectrum of symmetric operators.
Nonlinear Analysis, Series A: Theory, Methods and Applications. 72(11): 4288-4297, 2010.
(pdf)

Theses

Ph.D. Convex relaxation for the planted clique, biclique, and clustering problems. Completed under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Vavasis, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, 2011.
(pdf)     (matlab code)

M.Sc. Taylor expansions of the spectrum of a symmetric matrix. Completed under the supervision of Dr. Hristo Sendov, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, 2007.
(pdf)