Jianing Shi : April 26th

I will discuss Nesterov's optimal gradient method at the group meeting.  I will talk about Nesterov's method for minimizing composite objective function, together with its implication for L1 minimization. 

There is unfortunately no short story on Nesterov's method, however you can find his work at

http://www.core.ucl.ac.be/~nesterov/

Jianing's nicely done slides can be found here.