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