Update background materials

Author: kevinwoots

class08/background_materials/README.md

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 # Class 8 Background Material - 10/10/2025
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+Lecture structure is still under development. Tentative plan:
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+## Introduction
+Brief introduction of my research and background.
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+## Topic 1: Consensus
+"Algorithms that provide rapid agreement and teamwork between all participants"
+Great foundational paper:
+https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4118472
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+## Topic 2: ADMM (Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers)
+Great foundational textbook:
+https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/papers/pdf/admm_distr_stats.pdf
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+Perhaps introduce with the connection of progressive-hedging (in CEP research) to ADMM?
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+## Topic 3: Model Predictive Control
+Foundational paper (tentative?):
+https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109899002149?