Simons / Google Day

Date

Tuesday, Oct 31, 2017

Location

Google Mountain View campus, Shorebird buildings. The room is "SB45-Wacky Races".

Agenda

10:00: Coffee and welcome, Andrei Broder (Google)

10:40-12:00: Talks

• Ludwig Schmidt (Simons): Locality Sensitive Hashing: Theory and Practice
• Kostas Kollias (Google): Orienteering Algorithms for Travel Itineraries
• Swati Gupta (Simons): Learning Combinatorial Structures
• Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru (Google): Targeting and Signaling in Ad Auctions

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:20: Talks

• Kunal Talwar (Google): Differentially Private Optimization for Machine Learning
• Moses Charikar (Simons/Stanford): Hashing-based-Estimators for Kernel Density in High Dimensions
• Tomer Koren (Google): Preconditioning and Postconditioning (and Everything in Between)
• Huy Nguyen (Simons): Faster and Distributed Submodular Function Optimization

2:20-2:50: Break

2:50-3:30: Panel on Being a Researcher in Industry: Theory and Practice

Moderator: Aleksander Mądry (Simons/Google/MIT); Panelists: Phil Long (Google), Peter Norvig (Google) , Yoram Singer (Google/Princeton), D Sivakumar (Google), Andrew Tomkins (Google)

15:30-16:30: Optional campus tour and informal interactions