Schedule for: 21w5070 - Mathematical Statistics and Learning
Beginning on Sunday, November 28 and ending Friday December 3, 2021
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).
| Sunday, November 28 |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| Monday, November 29 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Schramm Tselil: The Sum-of-Squares Algorithmic Paradigm in Statistics (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Bin Yu: Provable Recovery of Boolean Interactions based on Random Forests (Online) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Andrea Montanari: Tractability from overparametrization: The example of the negative perceptron (Online) |
| 11:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch (KC 101) |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Tour of Banff Centre ↓ Meet in the PDC foyer for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus. (PDC Front Desk) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira: The contact process over a switching random d-regular graph (Online) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:20 - 14:50 |
Ilias Diakonikolas: Non-Gaussian Component Analysis: Statistical Query Hardness and its Applications (Online) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Gautam Kamath: Efficient Mean Estimation with Pure Differential Privacy via a Sum-of-Squares Exponential Mechanism (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Cynthia Rush: Variational Inference and Robustness (TCPL 201) |
| Tuesday, November 30 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Schramm Tselil: The Sum-of-Squares Algorithmic Paradigm in Statistics (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Andrew Nobel: Estimation of Stationary Optimal Transport Plans (Online) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Yury Polyanskiy: Rates of convergence of Gaussian smoothed empirical measures in Wasserstein and KL distances (Online) |
| 11:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch (KC 101) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Yihong Wu: Self-regularization of nonparametric maximum likelihood in mixture models (Online) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Ery Arias-Castro: On Using Graph Distances to Estimate Euclidean and Related Distances (Online) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Nikita Zhivotovskiy: Some recent results on Algorithmic Stability (Online) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Csaba Szepesvari: Confident Off-Policy Evaluation and Selection through Self-Normalized Importance Weighting (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Tselil Schramm: Testing thresholds for sparse random geometric graphs (TCPL 201) |
| 18:00 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| Wednesday, December 1 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Schramm Tselil: The Sum-of-Squares Algorithmic Paradigm in Statistics (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Varun Jog: Communication-efficient hypothesis testing (Online) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Emilie Kaufmann: Non-parametric exploration in multi-armed bandits (Online) |
| 11:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch (KC 101) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Gergely Neu: A convex-analytic theory of generalization (TCPL 201) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Morgane Austern (Online) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Shai Ben-David: Fundamental models of statistical learning and their combinatorial characterizations - negative results and implied open problems (Online) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Peter Bartlett: Adversarial examples in deep networks (TCPL 201) |
| Thursday, December 2 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Schramm Tselil: The Sum-of-Squares Algorithmic Paradigm in Statistics (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Miklos Racz: Correlated stochastic block models: graph matching and community recovery (Online) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Afonso Bandeira: Noncommutative Matrix Concentration Inequalities (Online) |
| 11:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch (KC 101) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Luc Devroye: Mixing time (TCPL 201) |
| Friday, December 3 |
| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (KC 101) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Checkout by 11AM ↓ 5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities ( TCPL) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11 AM (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (KC 101) |
