Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Awards Ceremony

November 14 - 15, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Friday, November 14, 2014
12:15 - 1:00 Registration Check-In
1:00 - 1:10 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
1:10 - 1:50
Lester Mackey (Stanford University)

Matrix Completion and Matrix Concentration

 
1:55 - 2:35
2:40 - 2:50 Break
2:50 - 3:30
Erika Tatiana Camacho (Arizona State University West)

Modeling Photoreceptor Death and Rescue

 
3:35 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40
4:45 - 5:25
Ryan Hynd (University of Pennsylvania)

A doubly nonlinear evolution for p-ground states

 
5:30 - 5:40 Break
5:40 - 6:20
Mariel Vazquez (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

Random knots, confinement and chirality considerations

 
6:30 - 7:30 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Morning Session
8:15 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:55
Sara Del Valle (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Global disease monitoring & forecasting with Wikipedia

 
10:00 - 10:40
10:40 - 10:55 Break
10:55 - 11:00 Group Photo
11:00 - 11:40
Amanda Ruiz (University of San Diego)

Realizations of phased matroids

 
11:45 - 1:10 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:10 - 1:50
Stanley Young (National Institute of Statistical Sciences)

Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, contributions to drug discovery

 
1:55 - 2:35
2:40 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:40
Raquel Prado (University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz))

Bayesian time series models and the analysis of multiple brain signals

 
3:45 Introduction of Prize Winner: Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University
3:45 - 4:45
Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver (North Carolina State University)

Mining in the Presence of Class Imbalance: Precision-Recall Curves and the F-Measure

 
4:45 - 6:00 Social Hour
6:00 - 9:00 Banquet and Awards Ceremony (Location: Main Dining Room - East, UCLA Faculty Center)