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)