Workshops

Fall 2018

Foundations of Data Science Boot Camp

Aug 27, 2018 to Aug 31, 2018

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Monday, August 27th, 2018
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Opening Remarks
9:30 am–10:30 am		Foundations of Data Science I Ravi Kannan, Microsoft Research India
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Foundations of Data Science II Ravi Kannan, Microsoft Research India
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Sketching for Linear Algebra: Basics of Dimensionality Reduction and CountSketch I David Woodruff, Carnegie Mellon University
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Sketching for Linear Algebra: Basics of Dimensionality Reduction and CountSketch II David Woodruff, Carnegie Mellon University
4:30 pm–6:00 pm		Welcome Reception

Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Sketching for Linear Algebra III: Randomized Hadamard, Kernel Methods Ken Clarkson, IBM Almaden
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		First-Order Stochastic Optimization Rachel Ward, University of Texas at Austin
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Sampling for Linear Algebra, Statistics, and Optimization I Michael Mahoney, International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Sampling for Linear Algebra, Statistics, and Optimization II Michael Mahoney, International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley

Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Stochastic Second Order Optimization Methods I Fred Roosta, University of Queensland
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Stochastic Second Order Optimization Methods II Fred Roosta, University of Queensland
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Statistical Inference I Will Fithian, UC Berkeley
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Statistical Inference II Will Fithian, UC Berkeley

Thursday, August 30th, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		High Dimensional Geometry and Concentration I Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		High Dimensional Geometry and Concentration II Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Algorithmic High Dimensional Robust Statistics I Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Southern California
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Algorithmic High Dimensional Robust Statistics II Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Southern California

Friday, August 31st, 2018
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:30 am		Nearest Neighbor Methods I Ilya Razenshteyn, Microsoft Research
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Nearest Neighbor Methods II Ilya Razenshteyn, Microsoft Research
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Data Streams I Michael Kapralov, EPFL
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Data Streams II Michael Kapralov, EPFL