Program Schedule

5 Jan | 6 Jan | 7 Jan | 8 Jan

Short Course: 5 Jan 2016 (Tue)

Time Event Venue
13:45-14:00 Registration Starts
14:00-15:45 "Modern Statistical Machine Learning Methodologies for Understanding Social Media and Social Networks – A Compact Course" - Part I [Abstract]

Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)
IAS 1038, 1/F,
Lo Ka Chung Building
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break Open Area, 1/F
16:15-17:30 "Modern Statistical Machine Learning Methodologies for Understanding Social Media and Social Networks – A Compact Course" - Part II

Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)
IAS 1038, 1/F,
Lo Ka Chung Building

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Focused Program: 6-8 Jan 2016

6 Jan 2016 (Wed)

Time Event Venue
09:15-09:30 Opening Remarks IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
09:30-10:15 "Reverse Engineering Evolving Networks Underlying Developing Systems" [Abstract]
Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)
10:15-10:45 Group Photo & Coffee Break Lobby
10:45-11:30
"A General Framework for Bayes Structured Linear Models"
Harrison Zhou (Yale University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break Lobby
11:45-12:30 "Dynamic Processes over Social Networks: Representation, Modeling, Learning and Inference"
Le Song (Georgia Institute of Technology)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
12:30-14:00 Lunch (For invited speakers only)  
14:00-14:45 "Subsampling Large Graphs and Invariance in Networks"[Abstract]
Peter Orbanz (Columbia University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break Lobby
15:00-15:45 "Parallelism Strategies for Scaling Up Bayesian Graphical Models to Big Data"
Qirong Ho (Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break Lobby
16:15-17:00 "Spatial Autoregressive Model Estimation for Large Scale Social Networks"
Yingying Ma (Beihang University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
17:00-17:15 Coffee Break Lobby
17:15-18:00 "Large-Scale Tagging of Unstructured Data"
Junhui Wang (City University of Hong Kong)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building

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7 Jan 2016 (Thu)

Time Event Venue
09:30-10:15 "SA Conditional Dependence Measure with Applications to Undirected Graphical Models"
Jianqing Fan (Princeton University; Visiting Professor of HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study) [Abstract]
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break Lobby
10:45-11:30 "Effective Influence Network Inference from Cascades and Beyond"
Yan Liu (University of Southern California)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break Lobby
11:45-12:30 "Latent Tree Models for Hierarchical Topic Detection"
Nevin Lianwen Zhang (HKUST)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
12:30-14:00 Lunch (For invited speakers only)  
14:00-14:45 "Functional Nuclear Norm and Low Rank Function Estimation"
Ming Yuan (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break Lobby
15:00-15:45 "From Protein Sequence to Structure to Function" [Abstract]
Xin Gao (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break Lobby
16:15-17:00 "Item Response and Structure Learning" [Abstract]
Zhiliang Ying (Columbia University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F, Lo Ka Chung Building

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8 Jan 2016 (Fri)

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