Schedule

Day 1 (Jun 15)

Welcome and Breakfast (7:15 - 9:00)

Session 1 (9:00 - 10:40)

Chair: Jiashun Jin 

9:00 - 9:25

Jianqing Fan, Princeton University

Ranking Inferences Based on the Top Choice of Multiway Comparisons

9:25 - 9:50

Yingying Fan, University of Southern California 

Universal Rank Inference via Residual Subsampling with Application to Large Networks

9:50 - 10:15

Yang Feng, New York University

Semiparametric Modeling and Analysis for Longitudinal Network Data

 10:15 - 10:40

Yuting Wei, University of Pennsylvania

A Non-asymptotic Framework for Approximate Message Passing, with Application to Z2 Synchronization

Coffee Break (10:40 - 11:00)

Session 2 (11:00 - 12:15)

Chair: Lihua Lei

11:00 - 11:25

Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Subsampling Based Community Detection for Large Networks

11:25 - 11:50

Avanti Athreya, Johns Hopkins University

Discovering Underlying Dynamics in Time Series of Networks

11:50 - 12:15

Yuxin Chen, University of Pennsylvania

Towards a Non-asymptotic Theory for Diffusion Generative Models

Lunch Break 12:15 - 14:00

Session 3 (14:00 - 15:40)

Chair: Tianxi Li

14:00 - 14:25

Xiaoyue Maggie Niu, Pennsylvania State University 

Learning Network Properties without Network Data--A Correlated Network Scale-Up Model

14:25 - 14:50

Zongming Ma, University of Pennsylvania

Community Detection with Contextual Multilayer Networks

14:50 - 15:15

Jiashun Jin, Carnegie Mellon University

Network modeling, NMF, and NIEP

15:15 - 15:40

Srijan Sengupta, North Carolina State University

Anomalous Clique Detection and Identification in Inhomogeneous Networks

Coffee Break (15:40 - 16:10)

Session 4 (16:10 - 17:25)

Chair: Xiaodong Li

16:10 - 16:35

Lihua Lei, Stanford University

Unified Two-to-Infinity Eigenspace Perturbation Theory for Symmetric Random Matrices

16:35 - 17:00


Marten Wegkamp, Cornell University 

High-Dimensional Discriminant Analysis

17:00 - 17:25


Minh Tang, North Carolina State University

Perturbation Analysis of Randomized SVD and its Applications to High-Dimensional Statistics

Mixer Reception and Poster Session (18:00 - 19:30)

Day 2 (Jun 16)

Breakfast (7:30 - 9:00)

Session 1 (9:00 - 10:40)

Chair: Wen Zhou

9:00 - 9:25

Tyler McCormick, University of Washington 

Asymptotically Normal Estimation of Local Latent Network Curvature

9:25 - 9:50

Lan Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago

Nonparametric Observed Standard Errors for High Frequency Data

9:50 - 10:15

Ji Zhu, University of Michigan

Network Community Detection Using Higher-Order Structures

10:15 - 10:40

Elizaveta Levina, University of Michigan

Latent Space Models for Multiplex Networks with Shared Structure

Coffee Break (10:40 - 11:00)

Session 2 (11:00 - 12:15)

Chair: Ji Zhu

11:00 - 11:25

Rong Chen, Rutgers University

Time Varying Dynamic Transport Networks and Matrix Factor Models

11:25 - 11:50

Bryan Graham, University of California, Berkeley

Simulated Maximum Likelihood (SML) Estimation of Supermodular Complete Information Discrete Games with Many Players

11:50 - 12:15

Per Mykland, University of Chicago

Of Lean Cats, Unsupervised Learning, and Contiguity

Lunch Break 12:15 - 14:00

Session 3 (14:00 - 15:40)

Chair: Xin Tong

14:00 - 14:25

Annie Qu, University of California, Irvine

A Model-Agnostic Geometric Deep Network for Interpretable Neuronal Mechanisms

14:25 - 14:50

Jinchi Lv, University of Southern California 

Optimal Nonparametric Inference with Two-Scale Distributional Nearest Neighbors

14:50 - 15:15

Wen Zhou, Colorado State University

Nonparametric Inference on Network Effects of General Relationship Network Data

15:15 - 15:40

Tianxi Li, University of Minnesota

Network Mixing: Adaptive Network Estimation and Beyond

Coffee Break (15:40 - 16:10)

Session 4 (16:10 - 17:25)

Chair: Yang Feng

16:10 - 16:35

Rui Song, Amazon, Inc.

Towards Causal Decision Making

16:35 - 17:00

Yumou Qiu, Iowa State University

Causal Inference on Multiple Derived Outcomes

17:00 - 17:25

Weijing Tang, Harvard University

Knowledge-Augmented Ising Model with Applications to Electronic Healthcare Records

Banquet (18:00 - 20:00)

Day 3 (Jun 17)

Breakfast (7:30 - 9:00)

Session 1 (9:00 - 10:40

Chair: Annie Qu

9:00 - 9:25

Cunhui Zhang, Rutgers University

Chi-squared and Normal Approximations in Large Contingency Tables 

9:25 - 9:50

Tracy Ke, Harvard University

Entrywise eigenvector analysis for network adjacency and Laplacian

9:50 - 10:15

Florentina Bunea, Cornell University

Inference for the Wasserstein Distance Between Mixing Measures in Topic Models

10:15 - 10:40

Panos Toulis, University of Chicago

Experimental Designs in Large Inter-Firm Networks

Coffee Break (10:40 - 11:00)

Session 2 (11:00 - 12:15)

Chair: Tracy Ke

11:00 - 11:25

Emma Jingfei Zhang, Emory University

Decoupling in Network Community Detection

11:25 - 11:50

Rachel Wang, University of Sydney

Individual-Centered Partial Information Networks: From Local Views to Global Structure

11:50 - 12:15

Yuejie Chi, Carnegie Mellon University

The Blessing of Heterogeneity in Federated Q-learning: Linear Speedup and Beyond

Lunch Break 12:15 - 14:00

Session 3 (14:00 - 15:40)

Chair: Emma Jingfei Zhang

14:00 - 14:25

Daniel Sussman, Boston University

Matching Embeddings via Shuffled Total Least Squares Regression

14:25 - 14:50

Xiaodong Li, University of California, Davis

Graph Laplacian Based Spectral Clustering and Heterogeneous SBM

14:50 - 15:15

Yubai Yuan, Pennsylvania State University

High-order Joint Embedding for Multi-Level Link Prediction

15:15 - 15:40

Xin Tong, University of Southern California

Social Learning: Attitudes Towards Authority

Poster Award Ceremony and Closing Remark (15:45 - 16:00)

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