Monday, 11 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 3: Modern first-order methods for structured convex problems Starting with gradient descent, the proximal point method, and subgradient descent, we then explore accelerated and proximal variants (such as FISTA), and …