Session 1

Chair: Gautam Dasarathy

08.00 - 08.05: Opening Remarks. Gautam Dasarathy

08.05 - 08.40: Invited Talk. Guy Bresler. Community Detection and Invariance to Distribution

08.40 - 09.00: Contributed Talk. Yin Chen Ng, Ricardo Silva. Edge Exchangeable Temporal Network Models.

09.00 - 09.20: Contributed Talk. Farshad Harirchi. A Data-Driven Sparse-Learning Approach to Model Reduction in Chemical Reaction Networks

09.20 - 10.00: Poster Spotlights

10.00 - 11.00: Coffee Break + Poster Setup

Session 2

Chair: James Sharpnack

11.00 - 11.35: Invited Talk. Caroline Uhler. Your dreams may come true with MTP2

11.35 - 11.55: Contributed Talk. Xueyu Mao, Purnamrita Sarkar, Deepayan Chakrabarti. Estimating Mixed Memberships with Sharp Eigenvector Deviations

12.00 - 14.00: Lunch

Session 3

Chair: Arun Sai Suggala

14.00 - 14.35: Invited Talk. Negar Kiyavash. Recovering Latent Causal Relations from Times Series Data

14.35 - 14.55: Contributed Talk. Bryon Aragam, Jiaying Gu, Arash Amini, Qing Zhou. Learning High-Dimensional DAGs: Provable Statistical Guarantees and Scalable Approximation

15.00 - 16.00: Coffee Break + Posters

Session 4

Chair: Qing Zhou

16.00 - 16.35: Invited Talk. Arthur Gretton. Conditional Densities and Efficient Models in Infinite Exponential Families

16.35 - 16.55: Contributed Talk. Arun Sai Suggala, Mladen Kolar, Pradeep Ravikumar. The Expxorcist: Nonparametric Graphical Models Via Conditional Exponential Densities

16.55 - 17.30: Invited Talk. Tandy Warnow. Mathematical and Computational challenges in Reconstructing Evolution