Schedule for: 17w5159 - Beyond Convexity: Emerging Challenges in Data Science
Beginning on Sunday, October 22 and ending Friday October 27, 2017
All times in Oaxaca, Mexico time, CDT (UTC-5).
| Sunday, October 22 |
| 14:00 - 23:59 |
Check-in begins (Front desk at your assigned hotel) |
| 19:30 - 22:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 20:30 - 21:30 |
Informal gathering (Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Monday, October 23 |
| 07:30 - 09:15 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:15 - 09:30 |
Introduction and Welcome (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi: Directions and open problems in elements of non-convex optimization (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Tamara Kolda: Nonconvex optimization and tensor representations (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:30 - 13:20 |
Group Discussions (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 13:20 - 13:30 |
Group Photo (Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 15:00 - 16:00 |
Po-Ling Loh: Optimization challenges from robust statistics (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
Srinadh Bhojanapalli: Nonconvex optimization in deep learning (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Tuesday, October 24 |
| 07:30 - 09:00 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Joel Tropp: Sketchy Decisions (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Elina Robeva: Maximum Likelihood Estimation under Total Positivity (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Breakout sessions ↓ identify key open problems from talks so far within small groups (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Reports from breakout groups (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 14:30 - 15:15 |
Marc Teboulle: First Order Methods Beyond Smoothness and Convexity (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 15:15 - 16:00 |
Geoff Schiebinger: Learning Developmental Landscapes from Single Cell Gene Expression with Optimal Transport (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
Open problem presentations ↓ Volunteers present about ~10 minute description of an interesting open problem. (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Wednesday, October 25 |
| 07:30 - 09:00 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Garvesh Raskutti: Variable selection and prediction with presence-only data (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:45 - 10:15 |
Jeff Linderoth: "New Sh*t Has Come To Light": Perspectives on Integer Programming for Sparse Optimization (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 |
Shoham Sabach: A Framework for Globally Convergent Methods in Nonsmooth and Nonconvex Optimization (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Laurent Lessard: Dissipativity Theory for Algorithm Analysis (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 15:00 - 19:00 |
Free Afternoon (Oaxaca) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Thursday, October 26 |
| 07:30 - 09:00 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Devavrat Shah: Matrix Estimation via Collaborative Filtering (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:54 - 10:35 |
Clement Royer: Complexity analysis of second-order algorithms based on line search for smooth nonconvex optimization (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Breakout groups II (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 13:30 - 14:15 |
Frank E. Curtis: Worst-Case Complexity Guarantees and Nonconvex Smooth Optimization (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 14:15 - 15:00 |
Maryam Fazel: Maryam (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Open problem presentations II (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Friday, October 27 |
| 07:30 - 09:00 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Sam Burer: A Gentle, Geometric Introduction to Copositive Optimization (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Eric Chi: Convex (?) Co-Clustering of Tensors (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Greg Ongie: Matrix Completion with Non-Linear Models (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
