Information and Inference Best Paper Prize
The Information and Inference Best Paper Prize highlights the best articlespublished by early career researchers.
The inaugural prize, to be awarded on the 24th of August 2015, celebrates
articles published in its 2012-2014 issues.
Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA publishes high quality
mathematically-oriented articles, furthering the understanding of the theory,
methods of analysis, and algorithms for information and data.
Shortlist and Programme
by Nicolas Boumal, Amit Singer, P.-A. Absil, and Vincent D. Blondel
by Mark A. Davenport , Yaniv Plan, Ewout van den Berg, and Mary Wootters
by Dennis Amelunxen, Martin Lotz, Michael B. McCoy, and Joel A. Tropp
by Nate Strawn, Artin Armagan, Rayan Saab, Lawrence Carin, and David Dunson
by Hemant Tyagi, Elif Vural, and Pascal Frossard
by John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Kerui Min, and Yi Ma
First Prize:
Living on the edge: phase transitions in convex programs with random databy Dennis Amelunxen, Martin Lotz, Michael B. McCoy, and Joel A. Tropp
Second Prize:
Cramér-Rao bounds for synchronisation of rotationsby Nicolas Boumal, Amit Singer, P.-A. Absil, and Vincent D. Blondel
1-Bit matrix completion
by Mark A. Davenport , Yaniv Plan, Ewout van den Berg, and Mary Wootters
Finite sample posterior concentration in high-dimensional regression
by Nate Strawn, Artin Armagan, Rayan Saab, Lawrence Carin, and David Dunson
Tangent space estimation for smooth embeddings of Riemannian manifolds
by Hemant Tyagi, Elif Vural, and Pascal Frossard
Compressive principal component pursuit
by John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Kerui Min, and Yi Ma
Adjudicators
Robert Calderbank, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke UniversityDavid L. Donoho, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
John Shawe-Taylor, Department of Computer Science, University College London
Jared Tanner, Mathematics Institute, University of Oxford