DIMACS Mixer - November 6, 2014

DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

Thursday, November 6, 2014

 9:30 - 10:00  Registration and Coffee

10:00 - 10:25  Director's Welcome and Remarks 
               Rebecca Wright, DIMACS Director

               Morning Session - Chair: Gene Fiorini

10:30 - 10:55  CoRE Kernels
               Ping Li, Statistics, Computer Science, Rutgers University

11:00 - 11:45  Keynote: Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior
               David Blei, Columbia University 

11:45 -  1:00  Lunch 

               Afternoon Session - Chair: Mel Janowitz

 1:00 -  1:25  The Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa Conjecture in Additive Combinatorics and its Applications in Complexity Theory
               Noga Ron-Zewi, IAS/DIMACS postdoc

 1:30 -  1:55  Graph Isomorphism and Circuit Minimization
               Bireswar Das, DIMACS Postdoc 

 2:00 -  2:25  On Reconstructing Set Systems from Sizes of Small Intersections
               Anindya De, IAS/DIMACS postdoc 

 2:25 -  2:55  Coffee Break 

               Final Session - Chair: Tami Carpenter

 2:55 -  3:25  Large-scale Curvature of Real-life Networks and Its Implications for Computations
               Iraj Saniee, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel Lucent 

 3:30 -  4:00  Poisson, Dirichlet, and Redundancy in Estimation Over Large Alphabets
               Anand Sarwate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University

 4:05          End of program