Foundations of Data Science Institute Kickoff Workshop

Nov 10, 2020

This workshop is being live streamed on our website. Full participation (including the capacity to ask questions) will be available via Zoom webinar.

All talk times are in Pacific Time.

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
9:00 am–9:30 am		Overview of FODSI Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley); Piotr Indyk (MIT)
9:30 am–10:00 am		Break
10:00 am–10:30 am		Economics and Learning Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)
10:30 am–11:00 am		Geometric Aspects of Sampling and Optimization Philippe Rigollet (MIT)
11:00 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–11:45 am		Networks and Graphical Models Christian Borgs (UC Berkeley)
11:45 am–12:15 pm		Algorithms with Prediction Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University)
12:15 pm–12:45 pm		Break
12:45 pm–1:15 pm		Computational Complexity of Statistical Estimation Jon Kelner (MIT)
1:15 pm–1:45 pm		Causal Inference Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
1:45 pm–2:00 pm		Break
2:00 pm–2:30 pm		Sketching, Sampling and Sublinear Time Algorithms Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT)
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Reinforcement Learning Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley)