This email is to announce that Jose S. Rodriguez will be defending his thesis: Solution of Large-scale Structured Optimization Problems with Schur-complement and Augmented Lagrangian Decomposition Methods Thursday, May 9, 2019, at 9:00 AM in FRNY 3062A. The dissertation is directed by Dr. Laird. The abstract is attached, and all are welcome to attend. Bev Johnson Graduate Program Administrator Chemical Engineering Forney Hall 2037D Purdue University 765-494-4057 [P bling]