4th Neo retreat
26-28 April 2022
Inria, Building #5, St Priest Campus of University of Montpellier
Day 1: Tuesday 26 April
Transport
- 8:30 – 9:00 – Meeting at Antibes’ train station
- 9:00 – 12:45 – Arriving by “minibus” from Sophia, by train from other locations
- 12:45 – 14:00 – Lunch buffet: Cafeteria space of Building #5
Session: room 03/124
- 14:00 – 14:45 – Caelin Kaplan: Adversarial regularization for privacy-preserving machine learning training
- 14:45 – 15:30 – Francescomaria Faticanti: Optimistic Online Caching for Batched Requests
Break
- 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
Session: room 03/124
- 16:00 – 16:45 – Younes Ben Mazziane: Memory and Accuracy Trade-off for the Count-Min Sketch with Conservative Updates
Activities
- 17:00 – 17:15 – Translation to the hotel, check in
- 17:15 – 17:45 – Translation to the center of Montpellier
- 17:45 – 20:00 – Montpellier walking tour
- 20:00 – 22:30 – Dinner: Brasserie du Théâtre
Day 2: Wednesday 27 April
Session: room 03/124
- 9:30 – 10:30 – Kostia Avrahenkov: Spectral Graph Theory and its Applications, part 1
- 10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break
- 11:00 – 12:00 – Kostia Avrachenkov: Spectral Graph Theory and its Applications, part 2
Break
- 12:00 – 14:00 – Lunch buffet: Cafeteria space of Building #5
Open discussion: room 03/124
- 14:00 – 15:00 – Role of (gender) stereotypes in Science. Moderator: Sara Alouf
Activities
- 15:15 – 16:00 – Drive to Palavas-les-Flots
- 16:00 – 20:00 – Walking tour in Palavas and along the beach to the Cathédrale de Maguelonne (weather permitting)
- 20:00 – 22:30 – Dinner: Le Phare in Palavas
Day 3: Thursday 28 April
Session: room 02/124 (warning: change with respect to previous days)
- 9:30 – 10:15 – Suhail Shah: Gradient-based Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Nonconvex Stochastic Constrained Optimization
- 10:15 – 11:00 – Jake Clarkson: MDPs in both inventory management of perishable products and limited-information queues
Break
- 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
Session: room 02/124
- 11:30 – 12:15 – Eitan Altman: Routing games, from Nash to Wardrop
Break
- 12:15 – 14:00 – Lunch buffet: Cafeteria space of Building #5
Transport
- 14:00 – departure of minibuses back to Sophia. End of the retreat
