Motivation As someone who is just starting out in academia, I have the basic theoretical foundations in place, but they are not solid, and I need to further review what I already know and build my own system. To this end, I would like to propose the following areas that I already have a “simple and scribbled” understanding of, and will be studying and reading further in August. To-Read filed Optimization Course: Convex optimization Book: Optimization: Modeling, Algorithms and Applications...