Schedule Overview

Sunday
2024-07-28
Monday
2024-07-29
Tuesday
2024-07-30
Wednesday
2024-07-31
Thursday
2024-08-01
Friday
2024-08-02
9:00AM - 12:15PM Tutorial by
Meir Feder
Tutorial by
Flavio Calmon
Tutorial by
Yuejie Chi
Tutorial by
Oliver Kosut
Tutorial by
Yingbin Liang
12:15PM - 2:15PM Poster/Lunch Poster/Lunch Poster/Lunch Poster/Lunch
2:15PM - 3:45PM Check-in Desk Open
2:15-5PM at 90 University Private
Tutorial by
Jona Balle
Excursion to Gatineau Park Tutorial by
Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali
Tutorial by
Gauri Joshi
4:00PM - 5:30PM Tutorial by
Hamed Hassani
Tutorial by
Anand Sarwate
Tutorial by
Jun Chen
5:30PM - 9:30PM Reception on
Ottawa River Cruise
Dinner

Detailed Schedule

* See abstracts of tutorials on this page.

  • Sunday, 28 July:
    14:15 - 17:00: (90 University Private) Check-in Desk Open
    17:30 - 21:30: (by shuttle) Reception on Ottawa River Cruise

  • Monday, 29 July: (Desmarais Hall, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 12102)
    9:00 - 12:15: Meir Feder, Addressing Large Models: Multiple and Hierarchical Universality (ITSoc Padovani Lecture) [slides]
    14:15 - 15:45: Jona Balle, Learned Data Compression, and New Solutions to Old Problems [related videos]
    16:00 - 17:30: Hamed Hassani, Alignment of Machine Learning Models: From CNNs to LLMs [slides]

  • Tuesday, 30 July:
    9:00 - 12:15: (Desmarais Hall, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 12102) Flavio Calmon, A World of Divergences
    14:15 - 17:30: (by shuttle) Excursion to Gatineau Park

  • Wednesday, 31 July: (Desmarais Hall, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 12102)
    9:00 - 12:15: Yuejie Chi, Generative Priors in Data Science: From Low-rank to Diffusion Models [slides]
    14:15 - 15:45: Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Blockchains, Decentralized Learning, and Game of Coding
    16:00 - 17:30: Anand Sarwate, Learning with Structured Tensor Decompositions

  • Thursday, 1 August: (Desmarais Hall, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 12102)
    9:00 - 12:15: Oliver Kosut, An Information-theoretic Perspective on Privacy Measures [slides]
    14:15 - 15:45: Gauri Joshi, Federated Learning in the Presence of Data, Communication and Computational Heterogeneity [slides]
    16:00 - 17:30: Jun Chen, Lossy Data Compression using Deep Learning [slides]
    17:30 - 21:30: Dinner

  • Friday, 2 August: (Desmarais Hall, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Room 12102)
    9:00 - 12:15: Yingbin Liang, Theory on Transformer Training [slides]