Workshop Dates: 23-24 February, 2018

Program

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Tentative Program schedule is given below

23rd February, 2018 (Friday)

Time
Details
8:30 to 9:15 hrs Registration
9:15 to 9:30 hrs Inauguration
9:30 to 10:20 hrs On the challenge of gene regulatory network reconstruction from high throughput sequencing data
Prof. Bruce Hajek (ECE, UIUC)
10:20 to 11:10 hrs A double-auction mechanism for mobile data-offoading markets with strategic agents
Prof. Rajesh Sundaresan (ECE, IISc Bengaluru)
11:10 to 11:30 hrs Tea (2nd floor foyer)
11:30 to 12:20 hrs Second moment method and applications
Dr. Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research, Bengaluru)
12:20 to 13:10 hrs Rumor source identification in networks (or Who let the dogs out,who, who..?")
Prof. Nikhil Karamchandani (EE, IIT Bombay)
13:30 to 14:30 hrs Lunch (2nd floor foyer)
14:30 to 16:00 hrs Tutorial: The surprising effectiveness of hierarchical Bayesian methods for sparse signal recovery
Prof. Chandra Murthy, Mr. Saurabh Khanna (ECE, IISc Bengaluru)
16:00 to 16:20 hrs Tea (2nd floor foyer)
16:20 to 17:50 hrs Tutorial: The surprising effectiveness of hierarchical Bayesian methods for sparse signal recovery
Prof. Chandra Murthy, Mr. Saurabh Khanna (ECE, IISc Bengaluru)


24th February, 2018 (Saturday)

Time
Details
9:30 to 10:20 hrs Qubits through Queues: The capacity of channels with waiting time dependent errors
Prof. Krishna Jagannathan (EE, IIT Madras)
10:20 to 11:10 hrs Decentralized random walk-based data collection in networks
Prof. Amitabha Bagchi (CSE, IIT Delhi)
11:10 to 11:30 hrs Tea (3rd floor foyer)
11:30 to 12:20 hrs Beyond Consensus and Synchrony in Decentralized Online Optimization using Saddle Point Method
Prof. Ketan Rajawat (EE, IIT Kanpur)
12:20 to 13:10 hrs Energy-Reliability Limits in Nanoscale Boolean Trees and Feedforward Neural Networks
Prof. Avhishek Chatterjee (EE, IIT Madras)
13:30 to 14:30 hrs Lunch (3rd floor foyer)
14:30 to 15:20 hrs Black-box Optimization
Prof. Aditya Gopalan (ECE, IISc Bengaluru)
15:20 to 16:10 hrs Zeros of polynomials and approximation of partition functions
Prof. Piyush Srivastava (STCS, TIFR)
16:10 to 16:30 hrs Tea (3rd floor foyer)
16:30 to 17:00 hrs Short concluding session

 

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