Foundations of Data Science Institute Retreat 2022

Jan 6, 2022 to Jan 7, 2022

All talk times are in Pacific Time.

Thursday, January 6th, 2022
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:00 am		FODSI Update
10:00 am – 10:45 am		Town Hall
10:45 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am		Computational Complexity of Statistical Inference Moderator: Jonathan Kelner (MIT) Speakers: Sitan Chen (UC Berkeley) and Brice Huang (MIT)
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Causal Inference Moderator: Devavrat Shah (MIT) Speakers: Dennis Shen (UC Berkeley) and Raaz Dwivedi (MIT)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm		Break/Lunch
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm		Reinforcement Learning Moderator: Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley) Speakers: Andrea Zanette (UC Berkeley) and Anish Agarwal (MIT)
1:30 pm – 2:00 pm		Economics and Learning Moderator: Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley) Speakers: Manolis Zampetakis (UC Berkeley) and Noah Golowich (MIT)
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm		Break

Friday, January 7th, 2022
9:00 am – 9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:00 am		Sketching, Sampling, and Sublinear-Time Algorithms Moderator: Ronitt Rubinfeld (MIT) Speaker: Michal Derezinski (UC Berkeley) and Talya Eden (MIT)
10:00 am – 10:30 am		Machine Learning for Algorithms Moderator: Piotr Indyk (MIT) Speakers: Sandeep Silwal (MIT) and Fred Zhang (UC Berkeley)
10:30 am – 11:00 am		Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am		Geometric Aspects of Sampling and Optimization Moderator: Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley) Speakers: Sinho Chewi (MIT) and Wei Hu (UC Berkeley)
11:30 am – 12:00 pm		Networks and Graphical Models Moderator: Ankur Moitra (MIT) Speakers: Devavrat Shah (MIT) and Luiz Chamon (UC Berkeley)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm		Break/Lunch