Fields CQAM Focus Program on Data Science and Optimization
November 4 - 27, 2019
Description
This Focus Program aims to bring together researchers in data science and optimization, both theoretical and applied, in an effort to bridge the fields and stimulate cross-disciplinary interaction and collaborative work.
Data science and optimization are increasingly intertwined as both focus on developing computational and methodological approaches to tackling big, and otherwise complex, datasets. Optimization is mostly concerned with accuracy, computational efficiency, and robustness while data science focuses on achieving effective results on real datasets. Although some data science approaches involve implicit optimization of some objective function, there remains a dearth of work that brings advanced optimization techniques to bear on data science problems.
Participants will be able to discuss and collaborate on a wide variety of mathematical problems to develop both novel formulations and efficient computational approaches. The strengths and limitations of currently used advanced software will be investigated to search for new ideas and extensions.
Workshops and Conferences
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Winter School on Computational Data Science and Optimization
November 4 - 8, 2019
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Conference on Data Science
November 12 - 15, 2019
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Conference on Data Science and Optimization
November 18 - 20, 2019
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Conference on Optimization
November 25 - 27, 2019
Registered Participants
Name | Affiliation | Attending dates |
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Sebastian Pokutta | Zuse Institute Berlin / TU Berlin | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Snezhana Kirusheva | York University | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Omid Rezania | York University |
2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Sunny Wang | Wilfrid Laurier University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Nasim Samei | Western University | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Xun Xu | Vestcor Investment | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Abdulkadir Hussein | University of Windsor | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Laura Sanità | University of Waterloo | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Levent Tuncel | University of Waterloo |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Charupriya Sharma | University of Waterloo | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Sina Baghal | University of Waterloo |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Stephen Vavasis | University of Waterloo | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Elias Khalil | University of Toronto and Polytechnique Montréal | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Juyoung Wang | University of Toronto | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Merve Bodur | University of Toronto |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Ilir Dema | University of Toronto | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Diego Silva | University of Toronto |
2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Oluwaseun Cardoso | University of Toronto | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Oylum Şeker | University of Toronto |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Veniamin Veselovsky | University of Toronto | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Moira MacNeil | University of Toronto |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Mahsa Sadi | University of Toronto | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Cheng Guo | University of Toronto |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Mehdy Dousty | University of Toronto | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Carolina Riascos | University of Toronto |
2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Sebastian Jaimungal | University of Toronto |
2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Peter Miasniko | University of Toronto |
2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Saihiel Bakshi | University of Toronto | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Zahid Abul-Basher | University of Toronto | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Maryam Daryalal | University of Toronto | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Aleksandar Nikolov | University of Toronto |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Mario Palasciano | University of Toronto | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
David Duvenaud | University of Toronto | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Hamed Pouya | University of Toronto | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Chris Beck | University of Toronto | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Rodrigo Toro Icarte | University of Toronto | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Ian Zhu | University of Toronto |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Oliver Thomas | University of Sussex | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Omkar Thakoor | University of Southern California | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi | University of Southern California | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Tanzy Love | University of Rochester | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Kanstantsin Pashkovich | University of Ottawa |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Jon Lee | University of Michigan | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Patrick Flaherty | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Niao He | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Vijay Kamble | University of Illinois at Chicago | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Paul Grigas | University of California Berkeley | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Vidya Muthukumar | University of California Berkeley | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Elena Ernst | University of Calgary/ Leiden University | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Fasiha Binat Zafar | University of Calgary | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
amit jha | University of Calgary | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Yang Yu | University of Calgary | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Liam Wrubleski | University of Calgary | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Ehsan Fooladamoli | University of Calgary | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Kuntal Sengupta | University of Calgary | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Yuriy Zinchenko | University of Calgary | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Janina Bazhan | University of Calgary | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Irene Vrbik | University of British Columbia | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Volodymyr Melnykov | University of Alabama | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Lionel Pournin | Université Paris 13 | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Riyad Parvez | Ukko Agro | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Heyuan Liu | UC Berkeley, IEOR | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Arthur White | Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Shinji Mizuno | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Nontawat Charoenphakdee | The University of Tokyo | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Yuko Kuroki | The University of Tokyo | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Lynn Lin | The Pennsylvania State University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Michal Edelstein | Technion | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Maximilian Reiter | Technical University of Berlin | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Rachael Hageman Blair | State University of New York at Buffalo |
2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Zehua Zhou | State University of New York at Buffalo | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Semhar Michael | South Dakota State University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan | RIKEN Center for AI project | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Masashi Sugiyama | RIKEN and The University of Tokyo | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Takanori Maehara | RIKEN | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Cristobal Guzman | PUC-Chile | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Saeed Ghadimi | Princeton University | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Anjali Silva | Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University Health Network, Vector Institute, University of Toronto | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Jason Zeng | Pratt and Whitney Canada | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Alfredo Torrico | Polytechnique Montréal | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Aleksandr Kazachkov | Polytechnique Montréal | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Defeng Liu | Polytechnique Montréal | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Anil Trikha | Opereason Analytics Inc. |
2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Marcio Cardoso | MLC Consultng | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Joe Guan | Microsoft | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Peter Tait | McMaster University |
2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
HONGFENG Liang | McMaster University | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Antoine Deza | McMaster University |
2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Brian McCrindle | McMaster University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
NING HUANG | McMaster University | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Forrest Paton | McMaster University |
2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Samantha-Jo Caetano | McMaster University | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Michael Gallaugher | McMaster University |
2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Paul McNicholas | McMaster University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Reza Samavi | McMaster University |
2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Quang Nguyen | McMaster University | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Bartolomeo Stellato | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Suvrit Sra | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Josh Harris | Koho Financial | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 |
Courtney Paquette | Google Brain | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Jasper Snoek | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 | |
Milad Hashemi | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 | |
Kevin Swersky | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 | |
Daniel Tarlow | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 | |
Cyrus Hettle | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Jad Salem | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Jacob Abernethy | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Hassan Mortagy | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Mohit Singh | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Cyrille Combettes | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Alejandro Carderera | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Swati Gupta | Georgia Institute of Technology |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Liyan Xie | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Stephen Davies | Gencirkita Technology Inc | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Matthias Grossglauser | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Axel Parmentier | École des Ponts ParisTech |
2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Ramin Hamedi | cmorgroup | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Fatma Kilinc-Karzan | Carnegie Mellon University | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 |
Kun Zhang | Carnegie Mellon University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Yuan Fang | Binghamton University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Wangshu Tu | Binghamton University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Sanjeena Dang | Binghamton University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Dexiang Wu | Beihang University | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Hyunmin Cheong | Autodesk, Inc. | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 |
Eric Han | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 | |
Frankline Ononiwu | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 | |
Taiki Uemura | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 | |
Damien Scieur | 2019-11-25 to 2019-11-27 | |
Jigger Vakharia | 2019-11-18 to 2019-11-20 | |
Venkatesh Medabalimi | 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 | |
Ruslana Steininger | 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 | |
Daniel Jordán |
2019-11-04 to 2019-11-08 2019-11-12 to 2019-11-15 |
Please register for each event you are interested in attending. Registering for one event does not enroll you for the entire Focus Program.