DARPA’s Lagrange developing optimization algorithms for uncertain, dynamic, multiscale settings like Real time neuroimaging data

Mathematical optimization is a branch of applied mathematics that in the broadest senselooks for best solution with regard to some criterion from some set of available alternatives. The advent of the digital computer and a tremendous subsequent increase in our computational prowess has increased the impact of optimization in our lives. Today, tiny details such as airline schedules all the way to leaps and strides in medicine, physics and artificial intelligence, all rely on modern advances in optimization techniques.