James Rene­gar

This short workshop is being hosted at the University of Washington and is in honor of Prof Adrian Lewis in recognition of his fundamental contributions to nonsmooth optimization Schedule: Aug 9: 9 am -- 5pm & Invited talks at the University of...

The study of first-order methods has largely dominated research in continuous optimization for the last decade, yet still the range of problems for which efficient and easily-applicable first-order methods have been developed is surprisingly limited...