Univeristy of Oxford

Jared Tanner
Exeter College

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Information and Inference Best Paper Prize for articles published in 2015 & 2016

The Information and Inference Best Paper Prize highlights the best articles
published by early career researchers.
The second edition of prize, to be awarded on the 22nd of June 2017, celebrates
articles published in its 2015 & 2016 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

Venue: Stanford University, Sequoia Hall, Room 200
Date: 22nd June 2017
Presenting authors are listed in bold.

13:30-13:40 Opening remarks

13:40-14:10
Super-resolution of point sources via convex programming
by Carlos Fernandez-Granda

14:10-14:40
Tensor sparsification via a bound on the spectral norm of random tensors
by Nam H. Nguyen, Petros Drineas, and Trac D. Tran

14:40-15:00
Coffee/Tea

15:00-15:30
On the optimality of averaging in distributed statistical learning
by Jonathan D. Rosenblatt and Boaz Nadler

15:30-16:00
Model selection with low complexity priors
by Samuel Vaiter, Mohammad Golbabaee, Jalal Fadili, and Gabriel Peyre

16:00-16:30
Graph connection Laplacian and random matrices with random blocks
by Noureddine El Karoui and Hau-tieng Wu

Time 18:30:
Dinner at Tamarine restaurant

I&I Prize 2017

First Prize:

Super-resolution of point sources via convex programming
by Carlos Fernandez-Granda
and
Graph connection Laplacian and random matrices with random blocks
by Noureddine El Karoui and Hau-tieng Wu

Second Prize:

Tensor sparsification via a bound on the spectral norm of random tensors
by Nam H. Nguyen, Petros Drineas, and Trac D. Tran
On the optimality of averaging in distributed statistical learning
by Jonathan D. Rosenblatt and Boaz Nadler
Model selection with low complexity priors
by Samuel Vaiter, Mohammad Golbabaee, Jalal Fadili, and Gabriel Peyre


Adjudicators

Robert Calderbank, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
David L. Donoho, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
John Shawe-Taylor, Department of Computer Science, University College London
Jared Tanner, Mathematics Institute, University of Oxford

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