Name: Flatiron Internal Conference: Flatiron-wide Algorithms and Mathematics
Start: 2019-10-30T08:15:00-04:00
End: 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium

Monday, October 28, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

8:15 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 2nd Floor

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
9:10 AM
9:10 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

9:10 AM Optimization landscapes - a gentle multi-disciplinary introduction to optimization - Christian L. Mueller (CCM / LMU)
10:10 AM

10:10 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
10:20 AM
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

10:20 AM Tutorial: Optimization for Machine Learning - Elad Hazan (Princeton U)
11:20 AM

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
11:40 AM
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

11:40 AM A practical introduction to adjoint methods - Leslie Greengard (CCM / NYU)

12:05 PM Research Applications of Optimization: Data-Driven Spectroscopy - Megan Bedell (CCA)
12:30 PM Lunch-
Lunch-
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction to interpolation, integration and spectral methods - Alex Barnett (CCM)
3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
3:10 PM
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

3:10 PM Overview of various methods to solve differential equations - Keaton Burns (MIT / CCA)
3:40 PM

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

4:00 PM PDEs: The long and the short. - Michael Shelley (CCB)

4:25 PM Introduction to Integral Equation Methods - Jun Wang (CCM)

4:50 PM Wavelets - Joakim Andén (CCM)
5:15 PM Reception
Reception
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Thursday, October 31, 2019

8:15 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction to Markov chain Monte Carlo - Dan Foreman-Mackey (CCA)
9:45 AM

9:45 AM - 9:55 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
9:55 AM
9:55 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

9:55 AM Scalable Bayesian Inference. - Mariano Gabitto (CCB)
10:40 AM

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

11:00 AM The quantum-ness in quantum Monte Carlo: mathematical and algorithmic implications - Shiwei Zhang (CCQ)
11:50 AM
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

11:50 AM Hierarchical Modeling and Stellar Velocities - Emily Cunningham (CCA)
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction to Deep Learning - Gabriella Contardo (CCA)
2:45 PM

2:45 PM - 2:55 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
2:55 PM
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

2:55 PM Introduction to Deep Learning - Shirley Ho (CCA)
3:40 PM

3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

4:00 PM Uncertainty Estimation with Neural Networks - Laurence Levasseur (CCA / U. de Montreal)

4:25 PM Deep Generative Modeling for Statistical and Quantum Physics - Giuseppe Carleo (CCQ)

4:50 PM Biological neural network algorithms - Mitya Chklovskii (CCB)
5:15 PM Reception
Reception
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Friday, November 1, 2019

8:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

9:15 AM Randomized linear algebra and matrix approximation - Eftychios Pnevmatikakis (CCM)

9:40 AM Spectral Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction - Marina Spivak (CCM)

10:05 AM Clustering in low dimensions - Jeremy Magland (CCM)
10:30 AM

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
10:50 AM
10:50 AM - 11:35 AM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

10:50 AM Fast algorithms for hierarchically structured matrices - Manas Rachh (CCM)
11:35 AM
11:35 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: 2nd Floor
Contributions

11:35 AM The why and how of nonnegative matrix factorization - Johannes Friedrich (CCB)

12:00 PM Introduction to Tensor Network Methods - Katharine Hyatt (CCQ)
12:25 PM No Lunch will be served: please order from Seamless
No Lunch will be served: please order from Seamless
12:25 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: 2nd Floor