October 14, 2016 - October 15, 2016

Workshop on Local Algorithms

Location: Cambridge, MA, USA

Day 1 | Friday, October 14

Time Session Speaker
8:30–9:00
Registration and Breakfast
9:00–9:10
Opening remarks Ronitt Rubinfeld
9:10–9:50
The power of locality for network algorithms Christian Borgs
9:50–10:10
Latent Space Model (aka Blind Regression) Devavrat Shah
10:10–10:30
Global Convergence Rate of Proximal Incremental Aggregated Gradient Methods Asu Ozdaglar
10:30–10:50
Break
10:50–11:30
A short (and partial) survey on Partition Oracles Dana Ron
11:30–11:50
Local Computation Algorithms for High Degree Graphs Shai Vardi
11:50–12:10
Testing Graph Properties with a Polynomial Query Complexity Asaf Shapira
12:10–12:30
A Local Algorithm for Constructing Spanners in Minor-Free Graphs Reut Levi
12:30–2:10
Lunch
2:10–2:50
Local to global amplification: the block model vignette Emmanuel Abbe
2:50–3:10
On Limits of Local Algorithms for Solving Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems David Gamarnik
3:10–3:30
Locality in Coding Theory Madhu Sudan
3:30–3:50
Local algorithms, message passing and the hidden clique problem Yash Deshpande
3:50–4:20
Break
4:20–5:00
A few perspectives on local algorithms for sparse graphs Elchanan Mossel
5:00–5:20
Sublinear Time Algorithms via Optimization Zheyuan Allen-Zhu
5:20–5:40
An Optimization Approach to Local Graph Partitioning Lorenzo Orrecchia
5:40–6:00
Erasure-Resilient Property Testing Sofya Raskhodnikova

Day 2 | Saturday, October 15

Time Session Speaker
8:30–9:00
Registration and Breakfast
9:00–9:40
Improved Distributed Local Graph Algorithms Mohsen Ghaffari
9:40–10:00
Non-Local Probes Do Not Help with Many Graph Problems
Moti Medina
10:00–10:20
Local Conflict Coloring
Pierre Fraigniaud
10:20–10:40
Designing Local Algorithms with Algorithms
Jukka Suomela
10:40–11:10
Break
11:10–11:30
Random walks approach in property testing
Artur Czumaj
11:30–11:50
Approximating the Spectrum of a Graph Christian Sohler
11:50–12:20
Poster session
12:20–2:00
Lunch + poster session contd
2:00–2:20
Fast Constrained Submodular Maximization
Amin Karbasi
2:20–2:40
Sublinear Random-Access Generators for Preferential Attachement Graphs
Adi Rosen
2:40–3:00
Robust Learning and the Semi-Verified Model
Greg Valiant
3:00–3:20
Heavy hitters via cluster-preserving clustering
Huy L. Nguyen
3:20–3:40
Slow inconsistent statistics Jason Morten
3:40–4:10
Break
4:10–4:30
Testing K-Monotonicity Elena Grigorescu
4:30–4:50
HyperHeadTail: a Streaming Algorithm for Estimating the Degree Distribution of Dynamic Multigraphs Kevin Matulef
4:50–5:10
Computing with Unknown Noise Rate Jared Saia
5:10–5:30
Concurrent Disjoint Set Union Robert Tarjan
5:30–5:50
Locality and Parallelism Krzysztof Onak