Monday, May 16, 2011 8:15 - 8:45 Breakfast and Registration 8:45 - 9:00 Introductory comments by NSF PDs, W8F OAC Session 1: Chair: Tina Eliassi-Rad 9:00 - 9:30 Recommender Systems: The Art and Science of Matching Items to Users Video Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo! Research 9:30 - 10:00 Statistical Methods and Algorithms for the Analysis of Social Network Data Video Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University 10:00 - 10:30 Dealing with Massive Data: Parallelism to the Rescue Video Sergei Vassilvitskii, Yahoo! Research 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 2: Chair: Phil Gibbons 11:00 - 11:30 Summary of Dense Parallel Algorithms Attaining Communication Lower Bounds Video Jim Demmel, UC Berkeley 11:30 - 12:00 Sampling-Based Motion Planning: From Intelligent CAD to Group Behaviors to Protein Folding Video Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University 12:00 - 12:30 Principles of Fact and Ontology Mining from the Web Video Alon Halevy, Google 12:30 - 1:00 Universal laws and architectures Video John Doyle, Caltech 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Session 3: Chair: Suresh Venkatasubramanian 2:00 - 2:30 Optimization Challenges in Machine Learning and Data Mining Video Kristin P. Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2:30 - 3:00 Some Sketchy Results Video Graham Cormode,At&T Labs - Research 3:00 - 3:30 Algorithmic Aspects of Real-Time System Design Video Aloysius K. Mok, University of Texas at Austin 3:30 - 4:00 Graph Lapiacian's and Convex Programming Video David Karger, MIT 4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break 4:30 - 6:30 Breakout sessions in parallel 6:30 Dinner at DIMACS 8:00 Shuttle to Holiday Inn Tuesday, May 17, 2011 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration Session 4: Chair: Inderjit Dhillon 9:00 - 9:30 Algorithm Design using Spectral Graph Theory Video Gary L Miller, Carnegie Mellon 9:30 - 10:00 Scaling Data Mining Techniques Video Anirban Dasgupta,Yahoo! Research 10:00 - 10:30 Reflections on Algorithm Engineering in Computer Graphics Video Eugene Fiume, University of Toronto 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 5: Chair: Tanya Berger-Wolf 11:00 - 11:30 Scalable Topic Modeling Video David Blei, Princeton University 11:30 - 12:00 Algorithms and Social Networks: How Close are our Ties? Video David Kempe, USC 12:00 - 12:30 It pays to do the right thing: Incentive mechanisms for Societal Networks Video Balaji Prabhakar,Stanford University 12:30 - 1:00 From FOCS to Sand Hill Road Video Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers University 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 4:00 Breakout sessions 4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break 4:30 - 6:30 Breakout sessions updates 6:30 Shuttle to Holiday Inn, Dinner on your own. Wednesday, May 18, 2011 8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration Session 6: Chair: S. Muthukrishnan 9:00 - 9:30 Phil Gibbons 9:30 - 10:00 Online Matching of Ads with Advertisers Video Kamal Jain, MSR 10:00 - 10:30 Insights into Routing in Real-world Networks Video D. Sivakumar, Yahoo! Research 10:30 - 11:00 Enriching Education Through Data Mining Video Krishnaram Kenthapadi, MSR 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 1:00 Breakout sessions meet and wrap up. Update OAC 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 OAC sync and debate