CRM-IMPA Joint Workshop on Challenges at the Interface of Optimization and Stochastic ProcessesJuly 18-21, 2017Program |
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017 |
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10:00 - 10:30
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Registration and Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-220 - Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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10:30 - 11:30
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Ronen Eldan
(Weizmann Institute of Science) On Gaussian-Width Gradient Complexity and Mean-Field Behavior of Interacting Particle Systems and Random Graphs | Abstract |
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11:30 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Open Problem Session
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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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Konstantin Tikhomirov
(Princeton University) On Invertibility of Random Square Matrices | Abstract |
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-220 - Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Kavita Ramanan
(Brown University) Tales of Random Projections: Where Geometry Meets Probability Theory | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Gérard Ben Arous
(New York University) The Phase Transition for Spiked Tensor Models | Abstract |
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11:30 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Subhabrata Sen
(Stanford University) Optimization on Sparse Random Graphs and Connections with Spin Glasses | 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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Nike Sun
(University of California, Berkeley) Phase Transitions in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems | Abstract |
Thursday, July 20, 2017 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-220 - Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Dmitry Panchenko
(University of Toronto) Free Energy in the Non-Homogeneous SK Model and SK Model with Vector Spins | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Aukosh Jagannath
(University of Toronto) Spectral Gap Estimates in Mean Field Spin Glasses | Abstract |
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11:30 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Wei-Kuo Chen
(University of Minnesota) Energy Landscapes of Mean Field Spin Glasses | 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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Lenka Zdeborova
(CEA/SACLAY) Constrained Low-Rank Matrix Estimation | Abstract |
Friday, July 21, 2017 |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Coffee & Croissants
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Meeting room(s) : Z-220 - Université de Montréal, Pavillon Claire-McNicoll |
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09:00 - 10:00
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Alessandro Arlotto
(Duke University) Probabilistic Analysis of Finite-Horizon Markov Decision Problems | Abstract |
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Emmanuel Abbe
(Princeton University) Estimating the Spectrum of Graphons | Abstract |
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11:30 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Gabor Pete
(Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Noise Sensitivity and Sparse Reconstruction in Spin Systems | Abstract |
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15:00 - 15:30
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Coffee
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