Simons / Google Day
Date
Date
Tuesday, Oct 31, 2017
Location
Location
Google Mountain View campus, Shorebird buildings. The room is "SB45-Wacky Races".
Agenda
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