Preliminary Schedule

Thursday, January 30, 2025 (Room 34-101)

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast and Registration
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
Sertac Karaman (MIT, LIDS Director)
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Plenary Talk
Alex D'Amour (Google DeepMind)
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Student Session I (Control and Dynamical Systems)
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch (LIDS Lounge - Building 32, Dreyfoos Tower, 6th floor)
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Student Session II (Optimization and Robotics)
2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Plenary Talk
Flavio du Pin Calmon (Harvard)
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Academic Panel - "Doing impactful research" (Peter L. Falb, Devavrat Shah, Martin Wainwright, Gioele Zardini, and more coming soon)
5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. LIDS Social Hour (LIDS Lounge - Building 32, Dreyfoos Tower, 6th floor)


Friday, January 31, 2025 (Room 34-101)

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Breakfast
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Plenary Talk
Marco Chiani (University of Bologna)
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Student Session III (Efficient and Fair Learning)
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch (LIDS Lounge - Building 32, Dreyfoos Tower, 6th floor)
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Plenary Talk
Zac Manchester (CMU)
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Coffee Break
2:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Student Session IV (Inference and Information)
4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Special Conversation With LIDS Director
Sertac Karaman (Samber - 6th floor)
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Reception/Dinner (Samberg - 6th floor)