LIDS Student Conference 2019

Thursday, January 31, 2019, Room 32-141

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast and Registration
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	Opening Remarks Prof. Eytan Modiano
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Plenary Talk Data Driven Algorithm Design Prof. Maria Florina Balcan
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.	Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Student Session on Optimization and Algorithms A Fast Max Flow Algorithm Xiaoyue Gong Direct Runge-Kutta Discretization Achieves Acceleration Jingzhao Zhang Dynamic Redistribution of Bike Sharing Systems Konstantina Mellou A Universally Optimal Multistage Accelerated Stochastic Gradient Method Alireza Fallah Making Last Iterate of SGD Information Theoretically Optimal Dheeraj M. Nagaraj A Scalable Algorithm for Sparse and Robust Portfolios Ryan Cory-Wright An Inexact Primal-Dual Smoothing Framework for Large-scale Non-Bilinear Saddle Point Problems Renbo Zhao From School Buses to Bell Times: Driving Policy with Optimization Arthur Delarue
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	Lunch & Poster Session Location: Stata Dreyfoos Tower, 6th Floor LIDS Lounge A Marketplace for Data: An Algorithmic Solution Anish Agarwal Budgeted Experimental Design for Targeted Causal Structure Discovery Raj Agrawal Theory Learning and Logical Rule Induction with Neural Theorem Proving Andres Campero Dynamic SLAM Methods for On-Orbit Inspection of Tumbling Objects Antonio Teran Espinoza Accelerated Learning in the Presence of Time Varying Features Joseph Gaudio Analysis, Design, and Control of High-Performance Cyber-physical Networks Milad Siami Optimal Noise-Shaping for Aliasing-Free Digital Pulse-Width Modulation in RF Applications Omer Tanovic
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Plenary Talk Sharing Human Resources Prof. Abhay Parekh
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Student Session on Networks Clustering Networks with Graph Powering Enric Boix Investment in Power Systems with Short-Term Uncertainty Espen Flo Bodal Optimal Recommendations in Routing Emily Meigs Age Optimal Information Gathering and Dissemination on Graphs Vishrant Tripathi Bayesian Learning in Awkward-sized Groups James Siderius On the Equivalent Representation of General Energy Networks: An Electrical-analog Perspective Jingwei Yang Toward Economically-efficient and Technically-realizable Operation of Electric Power Systems Rupamathi Jaddivada
6:00 p.m.	Banquet By invitation only Location: Samberg Conference Center, 7th floor, in Building E52

Friday, February 1, 2019, Room 32-141

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Student Session on Machine Learning and Statistics Model Agnostic Time Series Analysis via Matrix Estimation Anish Agarwal Mathematics of 3D Genome Organization Anastasiya Belyaeva Learning Mixtures with Missing Entries and Its Application to Rankings Dogyoon Song Detecting Early Stage Cancer Using Liquid Biopsy Jackie Baek Small Nonlinearities in Activation Functions Create Bad Local Minima in Neural Networks Chulhee (Charlie) Yun Reducibility and Computational Lower Bounds for Problems with Planted Sparse Structure Matthew S. Brennan
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Plenary Talk Optimization of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Hamiltonian Prof. Andrea Montanari
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.	Lunch with Plenary Speakers By invitation only Location: Room 32-D677
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	Plenary Talk Formal Synthesis of Control Strategies for Dynamical Systems Prof. Calin Belta
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
2:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Student Session on Control Theory and Applications Causally-stable Approximation of Optimal Maps in Maximal Value Constrained Least-Squares Optimization Omer Tanovic Control of Switched Network Models Karthik Gopalakrishnan Polytopic Trees for Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems Sadra Sadraddini A Separation Principle for Joint Sensor and Actuator Scheduling with Guaranteed Performance Bounds Milad Siami Sign-stability of Positive Markov Jump Linear Systems Joao Cavalcanti Input-Output Stability Analysis of Power Grids with Robustness Guarantee Dongchan Lee
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.	Coffee Break
4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.	Panel Discussion The Relevance of Theoretical Research to Real-World Problems Prof. Abhay Parekh Prof. Devavrat Shah Prof. Caroline Uhler Dr. Kalyan Veeramachaneni
5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.	Reception / Awards / Concluding Remarks Location: Stata Dreyfoos Tower, 6th Floor LIDS Lounge