Program

Friday Oct. 11

Location: School of Social Work, Room C03

Street Address: 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027

9:00-9:30 Breakfast, 10th floor lounge of SSW

9:30-9:40 Opening remarks: Peter B de Menocal

Session 1 (Chair: Thibault Vatter )

9:40-10:20 Steffen Lauritzen

Title: Total positivity in structured binary distributions

10:20-11:00 Matey Neykov

Title: Property Testing in High-Dimensional Ising Models

11:00-11:40 Adrian Dobra

Title: New methods for graphical models selection in hyper-sparse contingency tables

12:00-2:00 Lunch (By invitation only)

Session 3 (Chair: Marco Avella)

2:00-2:40 Mei Yin

Title: Perspectives on exponential random graphs

2:40-3:20 Constantinos Daskalakis

Title: Statistical Inference from Dependent Data

3:20-3:40 Coffee Break, 10th floor Lounge of SSW

Session 4 (Chair: Espen Bernton)

3:40-4:00 Jingbo Liu, MIT

Title: Recursive inference on tree with limited memory: a Wasserstein approach

4:00-4:20 Konstantinos Nikolakakis, Rutgers University

Title: Non-Parametric Structure Learning on Hidden Tree-Shaped Distributions

4:20-4:40 Shuangping Li, Princeton University

Title: $S^1$ synchronization on grids.

4:40-5:00 Shulei Wang, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Optimal Estimation of Wasserstein Distance on A Tree with An Application to Microbiome Studies

6:00- Conference Dinner (By Invitation Only)

Saturday Oct. 12

Location: Faculty House, Garden Room, First Floor

Location: 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027

Session 5 (Chair: Arian Maleki)

9:30-10:10 Andrea Montanari

Title: High-dimensional inference via TAP free energy and message passing

10:10-10:50 Guy Bresler

Title:

10:50-11:10 Coffee Break

Session 6 (Chair: Cindy Rush)

11:10-11:50 Mark Handcock

Title: Some practical Exponential-family based models for social networks

11:50-12:30 Pradeep Ravikumar

Title: DAGs with NO TEARS: Continuous Optimization for Structure Learning

12:30 Concluding remarks