Thursday, January 31:

8:30 – 9:30	Breakfast and Registration
9:30 – 9:45	Opening remarks
9:45 – 10:00	Spiels of the day
10:00 – 11:30	Student Session 1: Learning and Optimization Algorithms A Framework for Scalable Reward Learning from Demonstration Buddy Michini Algebraic Representation of Equivalence Classes of Directed Tree Models Hajir Roozbehani Average-Case Performance of Rollout Algorithms for Knapsack Problems Andrew Mastin Routing Games: Traffic Incidents and Effects of Information Jeffrey Liu
11:30 – 11:45	Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45	Plenary talk Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems Prof. Michael Stonebraker
12:45 – 2:00	Lunch break (on your own)
2:00 – 3:00	Plenary talk How Drugs Bind and Control Their Targets: Characterizing GPCR Signaling Using Anton, a Special-purpose Supercomputer for Molecular Dynamics Simulations Dr. Ron Dror
3:00 – 3:15	Coffee break
3:15 – 4:45	Student Session 2: Networks Local Computation of Network Centrality Christina Lee Robustness of Interdependent Networks Marzieh Parandehgheibi Phase Transition in Random Bipartite Graphs with Given Degree Distributions Sidhant Misra On the Sparsity of Optimal Power Allocation for Network Localization Wenhan Dai Network Deconvolution: A Universal Method to Distinguish Direct Dependencies over Networks Soheil Feizi
5:00 – 6:00	Panel discussion

Friday, February 1:

9:00 – 9:30	Breakfast
9:30 – 10:00	Spiels of the day
10:00 – 11:00	Plenary talk Accuracy at the Top Dr. Corinna Cortes
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45	Student Session 3: Optimization and Control A Finite Memory Encoder--Decoder Scheme for Control Under Communication Contraints Giancarlo Baldan Efficient Semidefinite Representations of Some Hyperbolicity Cones James Saunderson Random Projection Algorithms for Variational Inequalities with Set Intersection Constraints Mengdi Wang Minimum-violating Planning with Conflicting Specifications Luis I. Reyes-Castro New Lower Bounds on Nonnegative Rank Using Conic Programming Hamza Fawzi
12:45 – 2:00	Lunch break (on your own)
2:00 – 3:00	Plenary talk Organizing the World's Social Information Prof. Sep Kamvar
3:00 – 3:15	Coffee break
3:15 – 4:45	Student Session 4: Information Theory and Communication Networks Locally Decodable Source Coding Ali Makhdoumi A Proof of Threshold Saturation for Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes on BMS Channels Andrew Young The Feasibility Conditions for Interference Alignment in MIMO Networks Liangzhong Ruan Robust Power Optimization for Wireless Network Localization Yuan Shen
4:45 – 5:00	Coffee break
5:00 – 6:00	Student Session 5: Health Care and Biology Discrimination of Biological Network Topologies Using Thermodynamic Integration Hoda Eydgahi The Effect of Tumor Repopulation on Optimal Fractionation Schedules in Radiation Therapy Jagdish Ramakrishnan Identification of Hybrid Dynamical Models of Human Motion Ramanarayan Vasudevan Central Sleep Apnea: Modeling, Simulation, and Identification Ali Kazerani
6:30	Reception and Banquet (By invitation only)