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All talks will take place in the Chevron Auditorium, International House, UC Berkeley. The reception on Monday afternoon will be held at Calvin Lab.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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Input-sparsity Time Algorithms for Embeddings and Regression Problems
Michael Mahoney (International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley)
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Something for Almost Nothing: Advances in Sub-Linear Time Algorithms
Ronitt Rubinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Break
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Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
Petros Drineas (Purdue University)
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Simple and Deterministic Matrix Sketches
Edo Liberty, Yahoo! Research
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Lunch Break
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Optimizing with Tensors
Ravi Kannan (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
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Reception at Calvin Lab
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Coffee and Check-In
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Homomorphic Sketches: Shrinking Big Data without Sacrificing Structure
Andrew McGregor (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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Power to the Points: Local Certificates for Clusterings
Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah)
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Break
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How Robust are Linear Sketches to Adaptive Inputs?
David Woodruff (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Nimble Algorithms for Cloud Computing
Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Lunch Break
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Sampling for Subset Selection and Applications
Amit Deshpande, Microsoft Research India
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Spectral Sparsification of Graphs
Nikhil Srivastava (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
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Break
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Fast Testing of Graph Properties
Artur Czumaj, University of Warwick
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Inferring Structural Properties: Graphs and Bridges
Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan
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Coffee and Check-In
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Convex Relaxations for Permutation Problems
Alexandre d'Aspremont, CNRS - ENS Paris
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Computational and Statistical Tradeoffs via Convex Relaxation
Venkat Chandrasekaran, California Institute of Technology
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Break
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Memory Limited, Streaming PCA
Constantine Caramanis, University of Texas, Austin
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Noisy Estimation of Simultaneously Structured Models
Maryam Fazel, University of Washington
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Lunch Break
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A Dual Approach to Sparse Optimization
Michael Friedlander, University of British Columbia
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Min-Wise Hashing for Large-Scale Regression and Classification
Nicolai Meinshausen, University of Oxford and ETH Zürich
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Break
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Variable Selection with Error Control: Another Look at Stability Selection
Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge)
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Mixed and Covariate-Dependent Graphical Models
Liza Levina, University of Michigan
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Coffee and Check-In
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Succinct Representations and Efficient Algorithms Based on Linear Programming
Sudipto Guha, University of Pennsylvania
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Dimensionality Reduction Via Sparse Matrices
Jelani Nelson, Harvard University
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Break
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Probabilistic Hashing Methods for Succinct Data Representations and Applications
Ping Li, Rutgers University
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Optimal Detection of Sparse Signal Segments
Ming Yuan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Lunch Break
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Two Concise Representations for High-Dimensional Visual Data
John Wright, Columbia University
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Structured Sparsity-Inducing Norms Through Submodular Functions
Francis Bach (INRIA and École Normale Supérieure Paris)
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Break
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Going Off the Grid
Benjamin Recht (UC Berkeley)
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Closing Remarks