Program (pdf version)

Friday Oct. 23 (106 O'Brian Hall)

8:30 - 9:25 am : Registration

9:25 - 9:30 am : Opening Remarks

9:30 - 10:45 am : 4 Contributed talks (Session chair: Donald Sheehy)

10:45 - 11:00 am : Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 pm : Invited talk

  • Piotr Indyk :
    Beyond Locality Sensitive Hashing

12:00 - 1:30 pm : Lunch

1:30 - 2:45 pm : 4 Contributed talks (Session chair: Xin (Roger) He)

2:45 - 3:45 pm : Invited talk

  • Kenneth W. Regan :
    Using the Shape of Space for Shortcuts: Speeding up regressions on millions of chess positions

3:45 - 4:00 pm : Coffee break

4:00 - 5:15 pm : 4 Contributed talks (Session chair: Jie Gao)

5:15 - 5:30 pm : Coffee break

5:30 - 6:30 pm : Open problems

Saturday Oct. 24 (101 Davis Hall)

9:10 - 10:45 am : 5 Contributed talks (Session chair: Ge Xia)

10:45 - 11:00 am : Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 pm : Invited talk

  • Kenneth L. Clarkson :
    Input Sparsity and Hardness for Robust Subspace Approximation

12:00 - 1:30 pm : Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm : 5 Contributed talks (Session chair: Iyad Kanj)

3:00 - 3:30 pm : Coffee break

3:30 - 5:00 pm : 5 Contributed talks (Session chair: Matthew Johnson)