PROGRAM

Day one 3rd February 2016.
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Inauguration.
9:30 a.m. Tea and Snacks.
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Nisheeth Vishnoi
Evolution and Computation
11:00 a.m. Tea.
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Mohammad Arshad Rahman
Bayesian Estimation of Regression Models with Applications to Economics
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Elisa Celis
Game Theory & Social Networks: Incentives, Cooperation and Power
3:00 p.m. Tea.
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Purushottam Kar
Beyond Convenience, Beyond Convexity
7:30 p.m. Workshop Dinner.
Day two 4th February 2016
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Piyush Rai
Bayesian Optimization
10:00 a.m. Tea.
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Nisheeth Vishnoi
Slime Molds, Linear Programming and Sparse Recovery
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Joydeep Dutta
Themes in Convex Analysis and Optimization
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK.
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Vinay P. Namboodiri
Optimization in Computer Vision
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Poster Session and High Tea.

Venue

Outreach Building, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Developed at CSE, IIT Kanpur