Monday, 04 June 2018, 14:00 at MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences – Part of the CCIMI short course ‘First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems’ Instructor: Stephen Becker, University of Colorado Lecture 1: Convex analysis We introduce optimization with a few examples, and classify problems and discuss oracle models, then discuss convexity and differentiability. Basic analysis concepts will be reviewed as needed. …