DIMACS Mixer - October 11, 2012

DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

Thursday, October 11, 2012

 9:00 -  9:40  Registration and coffee

 9:40 -  9:50  Welcome and any housekeeping announcements

 9:55 - 10:25  Remarks by Rebecca Wright, DIMACS Director

10:30 - 10:55  Dynamic Proofs of Retrievability from Oblivious RAM
               David Cash, Rutgers University, CS

11:00 - 11:45  Keynote address: Designing Markets for Prediction
               David Pennock, Microsoft NY

11:50 -  1:10  Lunch and informal introductions

 1:15 -  1:40  Theory and applications of random partition processes
               Harry Crane, Rutgers University, Statistics

 1:45 -  2:10  Directed Width Parameters: Algorithms and Structural Properties
               Shiva Kintali, Princeton University, CS
 
 2:15 -  2:40  Using Algorithms Designed for Adversaries on Transfer Learning Problems
               Chris Mesterharm, Applied Communication Sciences

 2:45 -  3:10  Secure Two-Party Computation in Sublinear (Amortized) Time
               Mariana Raykova, IBM postdoc
 
 3:15 -  3:40  Coffee break

 3:45 -  4:10  Indoor localization and robotic cartography
               Piotr Mirowski, Alcatel-Lucent
  
 4:15 -  4:40  Discrepancy minimization by walking on the edges
               Raghu Meka, DIMACS-IAS postdoc
     
 4:45          Short closing remarks and announcements