[DMANET] Khronos-Persyval Days on High-Dimensional Learning and Optimization

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

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Khronos-Persyval Days on
High-Dimensional Learning and Optimization

June 10 - 12, 2014
Grenoble, France

http://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/harchaoui/projects/khronos/
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ABOUT Khronos-Persyval Days:
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Khronos-Persyval Days on High-Dimensional Learning and Optimization is
an international workshop organized as part of the Khronos project of
the Labex Persyval and the Gargantua project of the CNRS-Mastodons
program. The goal of this workshop is to provide an overview of some
of the latest advances in mathematical optimization and statistical
learning. We bring together three leading researchers in the field and
international participants at the graduate level and above. Each
lecture is a tutorial, starting from the basic concepts and tools, and
progressively moving further to the latest advances.


PROGRAM:
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Our invited speakers are (in alphabetical order):

* Arnak Dalalyan, CREST-ENSAE, Paris
On Prediction Performance of Lasso and Related Methods (2*3hrs)
* Vladimir Koltchinskii, GeorgiaTech, USA.
High-dimensional Dimension Reduction (3hrs)
* Peter Richtarik, University of Edinburgh, UK
Randomized Coordinate Descent for Big Data Optimization (2*3hrs)


LOCATION & TRAVEL INFORMATION:
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The workshop will be held from June 10th to June 12th, and will take
place in the university campus in Grenoble. Being located on several
main train and road routes, Grenoble is easily reachable from Geneva,
Lyon or Paris. Grenoble also has its own international airport.

Each day will include 2 lectures of 3 hours each, from 9am to 12pm and
from 2pm to 5pm. The workshop schedule may be subject to changes
before June 10th 2014; please check the workshop webpage before then.

REGISTRATION:
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There are no registration fees. However, for organization reasons,
registration before May 27th is mandatory, even for permanent
researchers/professors. If you are a permanent researcher/professor,
and you plan to attend not all the talks but only some of them, please
do also register. Registration details are provided on the workshop
page.

CONTACT:
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The homepage of Khronos-Persyval Days on High-Dimensional Learning and
Optimization, providing forms for registration can be found at

http://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/harchaoui/projects/khronos/

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the
Khronos-Persyval team by sending an email to khronos.persyval at
gmail.com

ORGANIZATION:
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* Massih-Reza Amini, LIG, UJF, Grenoble
* Zaid Harchaoui , LEAR-INRIA and LJK,Grenoble
* Anatoli Juditsky, UJF and LJK,Grenoble
* Yury Maximov, LIG,Grenoble
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