Croucher Advanced Study Institute
Mathematical & Algorithmic Challenges for
Modeling & Analyzing Modern Data Sets

Program

21 Apr 08 (Mon)
22 Apr 08 (Tue)
23 Apr 08 (Wed)
24 Apr 08 (Thu)
25 Apr 08 (Fri)

 

21 April 2008
9:30
Opening Ceremony
Prof. Franklin Luk, Vice-President (Academic), Hong Kong Baptist University
9:40
Group Photo
Coffee Break
10:00
10:00
 Michael W. Berry (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
  Using Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorizations for Topic Detection and Tracking
11:00
 Chris Ding (University of Texas at Arlington)
  Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Machine Learning
12:00
  Lunch
14:00
14:00
 Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research)
  Challenges in Data Mining in Search and Advertising
15:00
 Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  Learn One and Get One Free: Transfer Learning and Its Applications
15:40
  Coffee Break
16:00
16:00
 Orly Alter (University of Texas at Austin)
  Tensor Computations For Modeling Large-Scale Molecular Biological Data: From Discovery of Patterns to Discovery of Principles of Nature
17:00
 Hong Yan (City University of Hong Kong)
  Signal Processing Based Biclustering Methods for Biological and Financial Data Analysis
17:40
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22 April 2008
9:30
9:30
 Larry Shepp (Rutgers University)
  Data Mining, With and Without, Modelling
10:30
Coffee Break
10:50
10:50
 Ding-Xuan Zhou (City University of Hong Kong)
  Learning and Analyzing by Gaussians
11:30
 David Cheung (The University of Hong Kong)
  Security and Integrity in Outsourcing of Data Mining
12:10
  Lunch
14:00
14:00
 Lieven De Lathauwer (Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Electronique et de ses)
  Tensor Decompositions: an Overview
15:00
 Dacheng Tao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  Supervised Tensor Learning
15:40
  Coffee Break
16:00
16:00
 Tony Hu (Drexel University)
  Biomedical Literature Mining in Bioinformatics
17:00
 Guoping Qiu (University of Nottingham/HKBU)
  Modeling User Intentions in Interactive Image Retrieval
17:40
 Dilip Ghosh (Rutgers University)
  Cross-listed Cross-currency Assets and Arbitrage with Forwards and Options
18:20
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23 April 2008
9:30
9:30
 Andreas Dress (CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology)
  The Use of Distance Concepts in Modeling and Analyzing Complex Data Sets
10:30
Coffee Break
10:50
10:50
 Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) in Complex Network Studies
11:30
 Changsong Zhou (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Structure-function Relationship in a Complex Brain Network by Multilevel Modeling
12:10
  Lunch
14:00
14:00
 Bob Plemmons (Wake Forest University)
  Mathematical and Algorithms Challenges for Designing Multi-aperture/Multi-diversity Compact Imaging Systems
15:00
 Raymond Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Unified Tight Frame Approach for Missing Data Recovery in Images
15:40
  Coffee Break
16:00
16:00
 Mila Nikolova (CMLA, ENS Cachan)
  Average Performance of the Sparsest Approximation Using a Dictionary
16:40
 Gabriele Steidl (University of Mannheim)
  Variational Methods for Denoising Matrix Fields
17:20
 Peter Tang (Intel Corporation)
  A Self-adaptive Software Package for the Parallel Solution of Banded Systems
18:10
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24 April 2008
9:30
9:30
 Wei Zhang (M. D. Anderson Cancer Center)
  Modeling of Genetic Regulatory Networks: a Data-Driven Process
10:30
Coffee Break
10:50
10:50
 Ah Chung Tsoi (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Graph Neural Networks and Their Applications
11:30
 Clement Leung (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Semantic Visual Information Search and Indexing
12:10
  Lunch
14:00
14:00
 Jack W. Silverstein (North Carolina State University)
  Eigenvalues of Large Dimensional Random Matrices
15:00
 Liqun Qi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  Z-Eigenvalue Methods for the Best Rank-one Approximation Problem
15:40
  Coffee Break
16:00
16:00
 Lixing Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  On Distribution Weighted Partial Least Squares with Diverging Number of Highly Correlated Predictors
16:40
 Philip Yu (The University of Hong Kong)
  Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Factor Analysis: EM or Non-EM
17:20
 KaYu Hui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Evasion Resistant P2P Traffic Classification Using Stochastic Discrimination
17:40
 Jian-Feng Cai (National University of Singapore)
  Linearized Bregman Iterations for Compressed Sensing
18:00
 Sri Priya Ponnapalli (University of Texas at Austin)
  A Higher-order Generalized Singular Value Decomposition for Comparative Analysis of Large-scale Datasets
18:20
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25 April 2008
9:30
9:30
 Yi Pan (Georgia State University)
  Protein Structure Prediction and Its Understanding Based on Machine Learning Methods
10:30
Coffee Break
10:50
10:50
 Weichuan Yu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  Multi-scale Based Approaches in Analyzing Modern Data Sets
11:30
 Joshua Huang (The University of Hong Kong)
  Automatically Weighting Feature Groups in k-means for Blog Clustering
12:10
  Lunch
14:00
14:00
 Albert Chung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  Vascular Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Angiography
14:40
 Andy Yip (National University of Singapore)
  A Multi-resolution Stochastic Level Set Method for Mumford-Shah Image Segmentation
15:20
 Chun Ho Liu (The University of Hong Kong)
  Large-scale Parallel Computing of Incompressible Fluid Turbulence on Linux PC Clusters
16:00
 Michael Ng (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Unidimensional Nonnegative Scaling for Genome-wide Linkage Disequilibrium Maps Using PC Clusters
16:40
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