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A contemporary textbook and manual for students and aspiring environmental professionals that provides theory and practical skills and concepts needed for today's environmental manager. This foundational textbook provides the scaffolds to allow students to create partnerships to solve environmental problems with successful implementation techniques.
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Contents; Preface; Notation; 1. Matrix theory; 2. Vector differentiation; 3. Random variables; 4. Gaussian distribution; 5. Exponential distributions; 6. Entropy and divergence; 7. Random processes; 8. Convex functions; 9. Convex optimization; 10. Lipschitz conditions; 11. Proximal operator; 12. Gradient descent method; 13. Conjugate gradient method; 14. Subgradient method; 15. Proximal and mirror descent methods; 16. Stochastic optimization; 17. Adaptive gradient methods; 18. Gradient noise; 19. Convergence analysis I: Stochastic gradient algorithms; 20. Convergence analysis II: Stochasic subgradient algorithms; 21: Convergence analysis III: Stochastic proximal algorithms; 22. Variance-reduced methods I: Uniform sampling; 23. Variance-reduced methods II: Random reshuffling; 24. Nonconvex optimization; 25. Decentralized optimization I: Primal methods; 26: Decentralized optimization II: Primal-dual methods; Author index; Subject index.
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Ali H. Sayed is Professor and Dean of Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has also served as Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and as President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), and a recipient of the 2022 IEEE Fourier Award and the 2020 IEEE Norbert Wiener Society Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
