Thursday, Jan 30.

08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast and Registration
09:30 – 09:45 Opening remarks
09:45 – 10:45 Plenary Talk
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Student Session on Communication Systems

  • Opportunistic Scheduling with Limited Channel State Information:
    An Application of Causal Rate Distortion
    • Matt Johnston

  • On the Stability of Scheduling Algorithms for Network Navigation
    • Tianheng Wang

  • What To Transmit From Your Many Antennas
    • Austin Collins

  • Throughput Optimal Algorithms for Multicast in a Wireless Network
    • Abhishek Sinha
12:00 – 01:30 Lunch break
01:30 – 02:30 Student Session on Inference and Learning I

  • Analyzing Hogwild Parallel Gaussian Gibbs Sampling
    • Matt Johnson

  • Learning Gaussian Graphical Models with Small Feedback Vertex Sets: Observed or Latent
    • Ying Liu

  • Focused Active Inference
    • Dan Levine
02:30 – 02:45 Coffee break
02:45 – 03:45 Student Session on Inference and Learning II

  • Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Fidelity Simulators
    • Mark Cutler

  • Learning the Mixed Multinomial Logit Model
    • Ammar Ammar

  • Batch-Sequential Clustering via Low-Variance Bayesian Nonparametrics
    • Trevor Campbell

  • Classification of Conditional Independence Models: a Topological Perspective
    • Hajir Roozbehani
03:45 – 04:00 Coffee break
04:00 – 05:00 Plenary Talk
05:15 LIDS Social


Friday, Jan 31.

08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast
09:30 – 10:30 Plenary Talk
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 Student Session Biological Systems + Optimization

  • Exploring the Optimality of Various Bacterial Motility Strategies
    • Noele Norris

  • Trade-offs Between Retroactivity and Noise in Connected Transcriptional Components
    • Narmada Herath

  • From Single Modules to Multi-Module Systems in Gene Transcription Networks
    • Andras Gyorgy

  • Convex Lower Bounds For Atomic Cone Ranks with applications
    to nonnegative rank and cp-rank
    • Hamza Fawzi

  • Randomized Minmax Regret for Combinatorial Optimization Under Uncertainty
    • Andrew Mastin

  • Partial Facial Reduction: Simplified, Equivalent SDPs via Approximations of the PSD Cone
    • Frank Permenter
12:15 – 01:30 Lunch break
01:30 – 02:30 Panel Discussion
02:30 – 02:45 Coffee break
02:45 – 03:45 Student Session on Systemic Efficiency and Resilience

  • Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Networks with Bilateral Contracts
    • Alex Teytelboym

  • Credit Markets, Systemic Risk and Financial Stability
    • Diego Feijer

  • Network Resilience Against Epidemic Spread
    • Kimon Drakopoulos

  • Queueing with Future Information
    • Kuang Xu
03:45 – 04:00 Coffee break
04:00 – 05:00 Plenary Talk
05:45 Banquet (by invitation only)