ACM India Winter School on Algorithmic Foundations of Data Science

Dates: 11th December 2023 to 22nd December, 2023

Venue: Lecture hall 3 (LH3), NISER, Bhubaneswar

Local organizers: Anup Bhattacharya and Manoj Mishra (Winter school is funded by both NISER and ACM India).

Important information for students attending the school: 

• Participants will be given shared accommodation in hostels starting the afternoon of 10th December 2023 to the afternoon of 23rd December 2023. Boys will be accommodation in Brahmaputra and girls will be given accommodation in the Ganga hostel. Participants should bring their own door locks.

• Participants should carry a photo identity card with them. Participants may bring their own laptops.

Confirmed speakers and topics: 

• Arijit Ghosh (ISI Kolkata) on Property testing on graphs and regularity lemma

• Arijit Bishnu (ISI Kolkata) on Streaming algorithms

• Sourav Chakraborty (ISI Kolkata) on Distribution testing and Applications

• Ragesh Jaiswal (IIT Delhi) on Sampling-based Clustering Algorithms

• Anup Bhattacharya (NISER) on Sketching algorithms

• Manoj Mishra (NISER) on Hypothesis testing and lower bounds

• Subhankar Mishra (NISER) on Machine learning - Transformers

Schedule: 

• Please take a look below.