MALT24 Schedule - Centre de Recerca Matemàtica

	MONDAY September 9th	TUESDAY September 10th	WEDNESDAY September 11th	THURSDAY September 12th	FRIDAY September 13th
9:30 10:00	REGISTRATION & WELCOME	9:30 - 10:30 label Towards a sharp non-asymptotic theory for structured random matrices (and tensors) Afonso Bandeira ETH Zürich	9:45 - 10:30 label Computational complexity of average-case optimization: in search of new explanations Tselil Schramm Stanford University	.	.
10:00 11:00	Discrepancy Theory for Randomized Controlled Trials Daniel Spielman Yale University	10:30 - 11:15 label Efficient estimation of functionals of high-dimensional parameters Vladimir Koltchinskii Georgia Institute of Technology	10:30 - 11:15 label Challenges with Covariate Shift: How to characterize and mitigate it optimally? Martin Wainwright MIT	Online learning in digital Markets Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi University of Milan	Conversion theorem and minimax optimality for continuum contextual bandits Alexandre Tsybakov CREST-ENSAE Institut Polytechnique de Paris
11:00 11:30	GROUP PHOTO label COFFEE BREAK	11:15 - 11:45 label COFFEE BREAK	11:15 - 11:45 label COFFEE BREAK	COFFEE BREAK	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 12:15	Small Language Models Sebastien Bubeck Microsoft Research	11:45 - 12:30 label Adaptive density estimation under low-rank constraints Olga Klopp ESSEC Business School	11:45 - 12:30 label Statistical methods for assessing the factual accuracy of large language models Emmanuel Candès Stanford University	On Two Sequential Methods in Classification Nikita Zhivotovskiy UC Berkeley	A barreful of cellular or natural estimators Luc Devroye McGill University
12:30 13:15	On the Bias of the Sample Gini Coefficient Víctor de la Peña Columbia University	A Combinatorial Characterization of Minimax in 0/1 Games Shay Moran Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	On the topology of realizable distributions Amir Yehudayoff Technion - Israel Institute of Technology \| University of Copenhagen	Optimal-transport distances between Markov chains Gergely Neu Universitat Pompeu Fabra
13:15 15:00	LUNCH BREAK	LUNCH BREAK	.	LUNCH BREAK	.
15:00 15:45	Transformers, codes and locality notions Emmanuel Abbe École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	On the Foundations of Interactive Decision Making Alexander Rakhlin MIT	.	*TBA* Morgane Austerne Harvard University	.
15:45 16:15	COFFEE BREAK	15:45 - 17:15 label POSTER SESSION & WINE AND CHEESE	.	COFFEE BREAK	.
16:15 17:00	Property testing in graphical models: testing small separation numbers Piotr Zwiernik University of Toronto	.	.	Recent progress on random graph matching problems Jian Ding Peking University	.
17:15 18:00	Computation-information trade-off in high-dimensional clustering Christophe Giraud Institut de Mathématiques d'Orsay	.	20:30 label SOCIAL DINNER @ Barcelona	New local differentially private protocols for frequency and mean estimation Jelani Nelson UC Berkeley .	.

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