Workshop on High Dimensional Network Analytics

Organized by:

National Mathematics Initiative, IISc
Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc
IBM India Research Labs
University Grants Commission

Venues: 1.
2.
Choksi Hall, IISc Campus
CSA Seminar Hall (Room 254),
Dept. of CSA, IISc
Dates: December 16-19, 2013
Organizers: Shalabh Bhatnagar, IISc
Vivek Borkar, IIT Bombay
Dinesh Garg, IBM India Research Labs
Y. Narahari, IISc
Govindan Rangarajan, IISc
Devavrat Shah, MIT, USA
Contact: nmi@math.iisc.ernet.in
Slides: Sujay Sanghavi
Patrick Wolfe
Anima Anandkumar
Srinivasan Venkataraman
Swapnil Dhamal
Gugan Thoppe

PROGRAM

Monday, December 16, 2013

Choksi Hall09.30 - 09.45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
09.45 - 11.00 Venkat Chandrasekaran, CalTech

Computation and Statistics: The Viewpoint of Convex Optimization
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 12.45 (Tutorial Continued)
12.45 - 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.15 (Tutorial Continued)

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Choksi Hall09.30 - 10.45 Animashree Anandkumar, UC-Irvine

Learning Latent Variable Models via Tensor Decompositions and its application to Topic and Community Modeling
10.45 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.45 Sujay Sanghavi, UTEXAS-Austin

The Dirty Model approach to High-dimensional problems
12.45 - 14.15 Break
CSA 25414.15 - 15.30 Patrick Wolfe, UCL, London

Modeling Network Data
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 17.15 Animashree Anandkumar
(Tutorial Continued)
Choksi Hall17.45 - 19.15 Music Programme by AALAPANA, IISc Students' Group

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Choksi Hall09.30 - 10.45 Sujay Sanghavi

Sparse Graph Clustering
10.45 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.30 Animashree Anandkumar

(Tutorial Continued)
12.30 - 14.15 Break
CSA 25414.15 - 15.30 Sujay Sanghavi

Inference Using Alternating Minimization
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 17.15 Patrick Wolfe

Time-Varying Networks

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Choksi Hall09.30 - 10.45 Gugan Thoppe, TIFR, Mumbai

Optimization in Very High Dimensions
10.45 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.30 Chandra Murthy, IISc

Sparse Bayesian Learning using Underdetermined Linear Measurements with Application to Sparse Wireless Channel Estimation and Data Detection
12.30 - 14.15 Break
CSA 25414.15 - 15.30 Patrick Wolfe

Limiting Behavior in Large Networks
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 17.00 Srinivasan Venkataraman, PhD student, ECE, IISc

Delay-Cost Optimal Policies for Coupon Delivery in Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Swapnil Dhamal, PhD student, CSA, IISc

Preference Aggregation in Social Networks