in 2014 the philippe meyer prize in theoretical physics in 2016 and the irene julio curie prize in 2018. the talk today is entitled insights on gradient-based algorithms in high-dimensional learning so please join me in welcoming lenka's devarova thank you peter and i will share my screen so that you see the slides i prefer it and i'm really really honored to be giving this lecture especially given the influence that you know being part of one of the programs at simon's institute four years ago it had on my career and i enjoyed it so