Very welcome to the ROKS 2013 International Workshop on advances in Regularization, Optimization, Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines: theory and applications in Leuven Belgium. In recent years considerable progress has been made in the areas of kernel methods & support vector machines and compressed sensing & sparsity, where convex optimization plays an important common role. The aim of ROKS 2013 is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum where researchers of different communities can meet, to find new synergies along these areas, both at the level of theory and applications. As written in the acronym, the main themes include:

Regularization Optimization Kernel methods Support vector machines.