Schedule for: 16w5136 - Applied Harmonic Analysis, Massive Data Sets, Machine Learning, and Signal Processing
Beginning on Sunday, October 16 and ending Friday October 21, 2016
All times in Oaxaca, Mexico time, CDT (UTC-5).
| Sunday, October 16 |
| 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 ↓ A welcome drink will be served at the hotel. (Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Monday, October 17 |
| 07:30 - 08:45 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Introduction and Welcome (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Yann LeCun: Obstacles to AI, Mathematical and Otherwise (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Afonso S. Bandeira: Fundamental limits and algorithms for recovery under matrix spike models (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Hrushikesh Mhaskar: Deep vs. shallow networks (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Gilad Lerman: Robust Low-rank Modeling for High-dimensional and Massive Datasets (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Alexandre d'Aspremont: Regularized Nonlinear Acceleration (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 |
Stephane Mallat: Mathematical Mysteries of Deep Networks (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Naoki Saito: Target Classification using Sonar: Handling Acoustic Scattering via Scattering Transforms (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Francis Bach: Convex (and tractable?) formulations for single hidden layer neural networks (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Tuesday, October 18 |
| 07:30 - 09:00 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Leonidas Guibas: Functional Maps and Functional Map Networks for Joint Data Analysis (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Alexander Cloninger: Provable Approximations of Deep Nets (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Ronen Talmon: Multimodal signal processing using Alternating Diffusion (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Discussion: Mathematical challenges and opportunities of Deep Learning (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Boaz Nadler: The discrete sign problem: uniqueness, stable recovery and phase retrieval applications (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Shuyang Ling: Rapid, robust and reliable blind deconvolution via nonconvex optimization (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
Eero Simoncelli: Cascaded gain control representations (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Wednesday, October 19 |
| 07:30 - 08:45 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 08:45 - 13:30 |
Tour Visit to Monte Alban Pyramids (sign up necessary) (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Benjamin Recht: The Deceptive Nature of Generalization in Machine Learning (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
John Wright: Nonconvex Recovery of Low-Complexity Models (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi: Breaking sample complexity barriers via nonconvex optimization? (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Thursday, October 20 |
| 07:30 - 09:00 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Joel Tropp: Universality laws for randomized dimension reduction (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Soledad Villar: Clustering subgaussian mixtures via semidefinite programming (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Nir Sharon: Synchronization over Cartan motion groups via contraction (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Yuxin Chen: An efficient algorithm for joint alignment from pairwise differences (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Discussion: Topic TBA (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Pete Casazza: Phase Retrieval (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Roy Lederman: Simultaneous Alignment and Classification - A Representation Theory Perspective (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Yaniv Plan: A simple tool for bounding the deviation of random matrices on geometric sets, with applications (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Deanna Needell: Batched Stochastic Gradient Descent with Weighted Sampling (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Friday, October 21 |
| 07:30 - 09:00 |
Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Bernhard Bodmann: Explicit error bounds for compressed phase retrieval with frames (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Rayan Saab: Fast and Robust Phase Retrieval from Local Measurements (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Gitta Kutyniok: Feature Selection from Real-World Data with Non-Linear Observations (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 |
Closing of Event (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:15 - 13:00 |
Self-organized discussions (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:00 - 14:30 |
Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
