Schedule

The workshop schedule is available below. All the talks will take place in the R.J. Reynolds Auditorium at Fuqua. (Map of conference venue)

Saturday December 2, 2017

9:55 am - 10:00 amOpening remarks
10:00 am - 10:45 amChair: Alex Belloni
Victor-Emmanuel Brunel
Learning determinantal point processes and applications
10:45 am - 11:15 amCoffee break
11:15 am - 12:00 pmChair: Peng Sun
Anru Zhang
Singular value decomposition for high-dimensional high-order data
12:00 pm - 1:45 pmLunch break
1:45 pm - 2:30 pmChair: Sasa Pekec
Snigdha Panigrahi
Selection-adjusted estimation of effect sizes with an application in eQTLS
2:30 pm - 2:45 pmBreak
2:45 pm - 3:30 pmChair: Alessandro Arlotto
Jiaming Xu
Achieving exact recovery threshold of travelling salesman problems via linear programming: applications to DNA sequencing
3:30 pm - 4:00 pmCoffee break
4:00 pm - 4:45 pmChair: Alex Belloni
Nicolas Flammarion
Stochastic Composite Least-Squares Regression with convergence rate O(1/n)