TRIPODS Postdoc Workshop
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
August 21-23, 2023
This workshop is a space to connect all of the current and recent postdocs affiliatiated with NSF TRIPODS institutes. We will host research talks by postdocs, panel discussions with PIs, and social events.
We hope this will not only be a fun and intellectually-stimulating event, but also a chance to build a strong community of early career researchers!
Please register here (if you have not registered as a speaker).
Preliminary Schedule:
Monday (8/21)
9:00-9:20 Breakfast at TTI
morning session (chair: Ali Vakilian)
9:20-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:00 Quanquan Liu (Northwestern U.): Scalable Graph Algorithms
10:00-10:30 Christopher Harshaw (MIT / UC Berkeley): Design and Analysis of Randomized Experiments Under Interference
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Sushrut Karmalkar (UW-Madison): Distribution-Independent Regression for Generalized Linear Models with Oblivious Corruptions
11:30-12:00 Jessica Sorrell (UPenn): Multicalibration as Boosting for Regression
12:00-1:00 Lunch at TTI
afternoon session (chair: Sami Davies)
1:00-1:30 Maitreya Suin (JHU): TBD
1:30-2:00 Gautam Goel (UC Berkeley): Bridging Online Learning and Control
2:00-2:30 Break
2:30-3:00 Steve Mussmann (UW Seattle): Data-Efficient Machine Learning through Active Learning and Data Pruning
3:00-3:30 Ingvar Ziemann (UPenn): Learning with Little Mixing
3:30-4:00 Neophytos Charalambides (UCSD): Approximate Matrix Multiplication through Leverage Scores
4:00-? Social outing
Works
Tuesday (8/22)
9:00-9:30 Breakfast at TTI
morning session (chair: Sushrut Karmalkar)
9:30-10:00 Ainesh Bakshi (MIT): A New Approach to Learning a Linear Dynamical System
10:00-10:30 Akbar Rafiey (UCSD): TBD
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Ruhui Jin (UW-Madison): Optimal Experimental Design
11:30-12:00 Lijun Ding (UW-Madison): Revisiting Squared-variables Formulations: Optimality Conditions and Algorithms
12:00-1:00 Lunch at TTI
afternoon session (chair: Avrim Blum)
1:00-1:30 Sami Davies (Northwestern U.): Combinatorial Algorithms for Local Correlation Clustering
1:30-2:00 Ali Vakilian (TTIC): Individual Preference Stability for Clustering
2:00-2:30 Break
2:30-3:30 Panel
Panelists: Pranjal Awasthi, Maryam Fazel, Abolfazl Hashemi, Piotr Indyk, Ermin Wei, Becca Willett and Steve Wright
3:30-? Social outing
Works
Wednesday (8/23)
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
morning session (chair: Sushrut Karmalkar)
9:30-10:00 Zhengchao Wan (UCSD): Distances for Markov Chains, and Their Differentiation
10:00-10:30 Eric Evert (Northwestern U.): Existence of Best Low Rank Tensor Approximations
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Jasper Lee (UW-Madison): Optimal Sub-Gaussian Mean Estimation in R
11:30-12:00 Maryam Aliakbarpour (Northeastern / BU): Statistical Inference with Privacy and Computational Constraints
12:00-1:00 Lunch at TTI
afternoon session (chair: Sami Davies)
1:00-1:30 Saba Ahmadi (TTIC): Strategic Classification
1:30-2:00 Marina Knittel (UMD & UC San Diego): Fair Hierarchical Clustering
2:00-2:30 Break
2:30-3:00 Joshua Agterberg (UPenn): Estimating Higher-Order Mixed-Memberships via the Two to Infinity Tensor Perturbation Bound
3:00-3:30 Gregory Kehne (UT Austin): Online Covering with Prophets, Secretaries, and Samples
Panelists:
Pranjal Awasthi
(Google NYC)
Maryam Fazel
(UW - Seattle)
Abolfazl Hashemi
(Purdue)
Piotr Indyk
(MIT)
Ermin Wei
(Northwestern)
Becca Willett
(UChicago)
Steve Wright
(UW-Madison)