Workshops II: Numerical Tools and Fast Algorithms for Massive Data Mining, Search Engines and Applications - IPAM

Workshops II: Numerical Tools and Fast Algorithms for Massive Data Mining, Search Engines and Applications

October 15 - 19, 2007

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 15, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
11:30-13:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:00-14:00
Chris Burges (Microsoft Research)
Learning to Rank for Web Search
14:00-14:30
Break
14:30-15:30
Inderjit Dhillon (University of Texas at Austin)
Metric and Kernel Learning
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Dan Boley (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Fast Clustering leads to Fast SVM Training and More
17:00-18:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Tamas Sarlos (Yahoo! Research)
Faster Least Squares Approximation
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
11:30-12:30

Afternoon Session

12:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Andrew Zisserman (University of Oxford)
Scalable Visual Object Retrieval
14:30-15:00
Break
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Till Quack (Eidgenössische TH Zürich-Hönggerberg)
Frequent Itemset Mining and Association Rules in Visual Data

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (University of Toronto)
Semantic Hashing for Fast Document Retrieval
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Michael Isard (Microsoft Research)
Web-scale distributed search
11:30-12:30

Afternoon Session

12:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research)
Matrix Factorization with Missing Data
14:30-15:00
Break
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Leon Bottou (Microsoft Research)
Learning using Many Examples

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Yann LeCun (New York University)
Title not available
11:30-12:30
Svetlana Lazebnik (University of North Carolina)
Exploring image data with quantization-based techniques

Afternoon Session

12:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
14:30-15:00
Break
15:00-16:00