This document provides an overview of an upcoming course on inverse problems and regularization. The course will cover three topics: inverse problems, compressed sensing, and sparsity and L1 regularization. Inverse problems involve recovering an unknown signal x0 from noisy observations. Regularization is used to incorporate prior information and make the problem well-posed. Compressed sensing allows signals to be sampled below the Nyquist rate if they are sparse. The L1 norm is used as a convex relaxation of the sparsity prior, allowing sparse recovery problems to be solved as convex programs.