Sep 13 2017

Efficient PAC Learning from the Crowd

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Wednesday, September 13, 2017
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Theoretical Computer Science Seminar
Presenter(s): Pranjal Awasthi - Rutgers University
In recent years crowdsourcing has become the method of choice for gathering labeled training data for learning algorithms. Standard approaches to crowdsourcing view the process of acquiring labeled data separately
Aug 29 2017

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Chesapeake Fisheries: From Oysters to Economics

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - Thursday, August 31, 2017
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Asamoah Nkwanta | Fred Roberts | Scott Knoche | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Abdul-Aziz Yakubu | Richard Lacouture
As part of a series of multidisciplinary workshops under the theme Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 the workshop on Chesapeake Fisheries will explore issues of the Chesapeake Bay fisheries at both an ecological and economic point of view The oyster population will serve as one motivating example for the workshop
Aug 22 2017

DIMACS Workshop on Distributed Optimization, Information Processing, and Learning

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - Thursday, August 24, 2017
- 1:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Alekh Agarwal | Alejandro Ribeiro | Waheed Bajwa

There is an increasing confluence of three major trends in information processing an umbrella term that subsumes signal processing machine learning and statistics The first one of these trends is big data which refers to our ability to continuously collect massive quantities of data across a wide range of modalities

Aug 07 2017

Conference on Algebraic and Extremal Graph Theory

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Monday, August 7, 2017 - Thursday, August 10, 2017
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Sebastian Cioaba | Robert Coulter | Eugene Fiorini | Qing Xiang

The conference is being held in honor of Willem Haemers Felix Lazebnik and Andrew Woldar at the University of Delaware Please visit the primary website for the conference for more information

Jul 20 2017

Counting, Entropy, and Compression

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Thursday, July 20, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Anand Sarwate - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
Information Theory started out as the study of the fundamental limits of data compression and communication. Information-theoretic models for data use simple probabilistic models and derive expressions for the asymptotic
Jul 18 2017

Women in Data Science and Mathematics Research Collaboration Workshop (WiSDM)

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Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - Saturday, July 22, 2017
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Xu Wang | Sibel Tari | Emina Soljanin | Linda Ness | Deanna Needell | Julie Mitchell | Regina Liu | Kathryn Leonard | Giseon Heo | Ellen Gasparovic | Carlotta Domeniconi
Research Collaboration Workshop for Women in Data Science and Mathematics WiSDM This program will bring together women at all stages of their careers from graduate students to senior researchers to collaborate on problems in data science The scientific focus will be on cutting edge problems in the areas of predictive
Jul 11 2017

Mathematical ecology: A century of progress, and challenges for the next century

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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Simon Levin - Princeton University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
The subject of theoretical ecology is an old and productive one, and has helped in the management of natural systems and infectious diseases. In the past several decades, much progress
Jul 07 2017

DIMACS Workshop on Outsourcing Computation Securely

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Friday, July 7, 2017 - Saturday, July 8, 2017
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Guy Rothblum | Michael Walfish | Marina Blanton
In modern computing sensitive computations are routinely outsourced to remote providers This paradigm comes with tremendous promise For example weak individuals and devices can be empowered by access to vast computation resources fine grained data about individuals can be tracked and analyzed to improve services and quality of life and
Jul 05 2017

Why Memory Consistency Models Matter in a World of Parallelism and Shared Memory

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Wednesday, July 5, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Caroline Trippel - Princeton University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
Computer architecture is a mediator between technology and applications. It is what enables us to separate interface i.e., the specification of what services and functionality technology must provide from the
Jun 26 2017

How to compute Pi as Slowly as Possible

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Monday, June 26, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Doron Zeilberger - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
Computing Pi as fast as possible is a science, but computing it as slowly as possible is a fine art.
Jun 20 2017

Kelly Betting and Prediction Markets

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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): David Pennock - Microsoft Research
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
Suppose you had 10,000 to invest in a startup that had a 10 chance of succeeding. If the startup succeeded, your investment would multiply by twenty times. But if the
Jun 13 2017

Auditing Black-box Models

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Sorelle Friedler - Haverford College
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
Machine learning models are becoming increasingly opaque to human examination, even to their designers. Understanding model predictions is broadly important across public policy, scientific hypothesis generation, and model optimization, and
Jun 11 2017

Reconnect 2017: Mathematical and Computational Tools for Energy Efficiency and Reliability of Data Centers and the Electrical GridIndividual Interests vs. the Common Good

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Sunday, June 11, 2017 - Saturday, June 17, 2017
8:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Mark Ginn

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development 2008 indicates that buildings account for as much as 40 percent of energy use in industrialized countries Data centers computing facilities with electronic equipment for data processing storage and communications networking are especially inefficient users of energy The amount of carbon dioxide emitted

Jun 09 2017

Registration and Breakfast

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Friday, June 9, 2017
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Type: Seminars
Jun 09 2017

DIMACS Workshop on Complexity of Cryptographic Primitives and Assumptions

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Friday, June 9, 2017 - Saturday, June 10, 2017
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Tal Malkin | Oded Regev | Shai Halevi | Rosario Gennaro
It is well accepted that the discovery of public key cryptography revolutionized the field of cryptology One of its most long lasting effects has been the development of a solid foundation for the field grounded in the concepts of complexity theory This foundation is arguably one of the reasons for
Jun 06 2017

The OEIS: World's Most Useful Web Site for Math?

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Tuesday, June 6, 2017
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Neil Sloane - The OEIS Foundation
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
The OEIS The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, oeis.org has sometimes been called the most useful math site on the Web. If you have ever run across a number sequence
Jun 06 2017

DIMACS Workshop on Algorithms for Data Center Networks

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Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - Thursday, June 8, 2017
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Lisa Zhang | Baruch Schieber | Hadas Shachnai
Data center networks DCN have become the nexus of Cloud services providing an infrastructure for effective data sharing among different applications and collaborators DCNs use the innovative paradigm of software defined networks SDN that advocates decoupling the control plane and the data plane of networks Many DCNs support also network
May 18 2017

IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference 2017

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Thursday, May 18, 2017 - Saturday, May 20, 2017
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Myong K. Jeong | John Kolassa | Regina Liu | Weihong Guo | Elsayed A. Elsayed | Harry Crane | Yasuo Amemiya | Susan Albin | William Strawderman | Han Xiao | Min-ge Xie | Dan Yang | Ying Hung
The Spring Research Conference SRC is sponsored by the American Statistical Association ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences SPES and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics IMS In 2017 the conference is hosted by the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at Rutgers The goal of the conference is to promote
May 01 2017

How To Avoid a Pattern

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Monday, May 1, 2017
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar
Presenter(s): Yonah Biers-Ariel - Rutgers University
This talk will define permutation pattern avoidance classes and give some (in my opinion) surprising results regarding which patterns are easiest to avoid. Time permitting, we will then discuss pattern
Apr 25 2017

DIMACS/Northeast Big Data Hub Workshop on Privacy and Security for Big Data

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Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - Wednesday, April 26, 2017
9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): René Bastón | Joseph Lorenzo Hall | Adam Smith | Sean Smith | Rebecca  Wright | Moti Yung
Privacy and security are critical for realizing big data s promise to advance society If data is used without regard to privacy of individuals or protection of the data then individuals may be hurt If data s authenticity is not guaranteed or if data is not permitted to be used