Workshop on Combinatorial StatisticsApril 30 - May 4, 2018Program |
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Monday, April 30, 2018 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)
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Meeting room(s) : 6254 |
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09:30 - 10:30
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Laurent Massoulié
(École Polytechnique) Rapid mixing of local graph dynamics | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Rachel A. Ward
(University of Texas) Learning the learning rate in stochastic gradient descent | Abstract |
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12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Yuval Peres
(Microsoft Research) Minicourse on statistical reconstruction problems: Reconstruction on trees and unpredictable paths | Abstract
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15:00 - 15:30
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Coffee break
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15:30 - 16:30
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Andrea Montanari
(Stanford University) A mean field view of the landscape of two-layers neural networks | Abstract |
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : 6254 |
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09:30 - 10:30
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Constantinos Daskalakis
(MIT) High-dimensional distribution testing: Social networks and GANs | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Nicolas Broutin
(Sorbonne Université) Limits of inhomogeneous random graphs | Abstract |
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12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Yuval Peres
(Microsoft Research) Minicourse on statistical reconstruction problems: Detecting the trail of a random walk, and a hidden clique in a random graph | Abstract
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15:00 - 15:30
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Coffee break
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15:30 - 16:30
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Philippe Rigollet
(MIT) Learning determinantal point processes | Abstract |
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : 6254 |
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09:30 - 10:30
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Emmanuel Abbe
(Princeton University) Broadcasting and synchronizing bits on graphs | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 12:00
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J. Michael Steele
(University of Pennsylvania) The Bohnenblust–Spitzer algorithm and its applications | Abstract |
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12:00 - 13:30
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Lunch break
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13:30 - 14:30
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Yuval Peres
(Microsoft Research) Minicourse on statistical reconstruction problems: Detecting a missing point in a perturbed lattice | Abstract
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14:30 - 15:00
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Coffee break
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15:00 - 16:00
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Nike Sun
(University of California, Berkeley) |
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16:30 - 17:30
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Alex Wein
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Estimation in the presence of group actions | Abstract |
Thursday, May 3, 2018 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : 6254 |
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09:30 - 10:30
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Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira
(IMPA) Estimating graph parameters via multiple random walks | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Yihong Wu
(Yale University) Recovering a hidden hamiltonian cycle via linear programming | Abstract |
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12:00 - 13:30
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Lunch break
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13:30 - 14:30
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Yuval Peres
(Microsoft Research) Minicourse on statistical reconstruction problems: Trace reconstruction for the deletion channel | Abstract
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14:30 - 15:00
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Coffee break
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15:00 - 16:00
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David Gamarnik
(MIT) Algorithms and algorithmic obstacles in high-dimensional regression | Abstract |
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16:30 - 17:30
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Miklós Z. Rácz
(Princeton University) High-dimensional random geometric graphs | Abstract |
Friday, May 4, 2018 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : 6254 |
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09:30 - 10:30
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Po-Ling Loh
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Two inference problems for network contagion | Abstract |
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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11:00 - 12:00
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Risi Kondor
(The University of Chicago) |
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12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Jian Ding
(The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) Cycles and paths with minimum average weight | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:30
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Coffee break
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15:30 - 16:30
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Quentin Berthet
(University of Cambridge) Exact recovery in the Ising blockmodel | Abstract |
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