Stephen Wright

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...

In many applications of optimization, an exact solution is less useful than a simple, well structured approximate solution. An example is found in compressed sensing, where we prefer a sparse signal (e.g. containing few frequencies) that matches the...