Workshops

Summer 2016

Real-Time Decision Making

Jun 27, 2016 to Jul 1, 2016

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract and slides (if applicable).

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Monday, June 27th, 2016
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:15 am		Physics at the LHC: Data Analysis and Global Network Challenges with Exascale Data Harvey Newman, California Institute of Technology (joining remotely)
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:30 am		Warning When You Need It: Earthquakes and Smartphones Richard Allen, UC Berkeley
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Real-Time Convex Optimization Stephen Boyd, Stanford University
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:45 pm		Coding for Interactive Communication Leonard Schulman, California Institute of Technology
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Break
3:15 pm–4:00 pm		Crowdsourcing for Clustering: Algorithms and Information-Theoretic Lower Bounds Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Technology
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		Local Computation Algorithms Ronitt Rubinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		Reception

Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		What Does `Real Time' Mean Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:30 am		The Palomar Transient Factory Peter Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
11:30 am–12:00 pm		Market Dynamics of Best-Response with Lookahead Yuval Rabani, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:45 pm		Algorithms for Risk Mitigation in Networks Evdokia Nikolova, University of Texas at Austin
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Break
3:15 pm–4:00 pm		Core-sets for Real-Time Tracking using Caratheodory Theorem, with Applications to Drones Dan Feldman, University of Haifa
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		Closed-Loop Control of Network Processes John Tsitsiklis, MIT

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		Algorithms for Societal Networks Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:30 am		Distributed Learning Dynamics Convergence in Routing Games Alexandre Bayen, UC Berkeley
11:30 am–12:15 pm		Increasing Throughput in Urban Roads by Connected Vehicles Pravin Varaiya, UC Berkeley
12:15 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:45 pm		Seeing Real-Time Traffic Problems Damon Wischik, Urban Engines
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Break
3:15 pm–3:45 pm		Sub-Quadratic Recovery of Correlated Pairs Graham Cormode, University of Warwick
3:45 pm–4:45 pm		Open Discussion

Thursday, June 30th, 2016
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		Optimal Power Flow: Relaxation, Online Algorithm, Fast Dynamics Steven Low, California Institute of Technology
10:15 am–10:45 am		Break
10:45 am–11:30 am		Distributed Control for Demand Dispatch Sean Meyn, University of Florida
11:30 am–12:15 pm		Algorithmic Aspects of Online Advertising Amin Saberi, Stanford University
12:15 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:45 pm		Smarter Tools for (Citi)Bike-Sharing David Shmoys, Cornell University
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Break
3:15 pm–4:00 pm		Dynamic Pricing in Ridesharing Platforms Siddhartha Banerjee, Cornell University
4:00 pm–5:00 pm		Open Discussion

Friday, July 1st, 2016
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:15 am		New Algorithms for Heavy Hitters in Data Streams David Woodruff, IBM Research, Almaden
10:15 am–10:45 pm		Approximate Optimality with Bounded Regret in Dynamic Matching Models Ana Bušić, INRIA and École Normale Supérieure Paris
10:45 am–11:15 am		Break
11:15 am–12:00 pm		Real-Time Decision Making in Hybrid Systems Claire Tomlin, UC Berkeley
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–2:45 pm		Predicting from Noisy and Incomplete Data: Some Perspectives from Computational Learning Theory Rocco Servedio, Columbia University
2:45 pm–3:15 pm		Break
3:15 pm–4:00 pm		Localization and Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling via Paired Comparisons Mark Davenport, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		When Computing Time is Time Lost Sampath Kannan, University of Pennsylvania