The Departmental of Statistical Science of University
College London welcomes contributions to the First UCL Workshop on the Theory of Big Data, to take place 7-9 Jan 2015 at University College London Antatomy
J Z Young LT and the Gavin de Beer. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bigdata-theory/
Scope: contributions within the broad theme of theoretical, computational and statistical
underpinnings of Big Data analysis, emphasizing challenges and opportunities that are not usually found in traditional data analysis problems. We particularly invite submissions related to the following two focus areas:
1) measures of association such as covariance modelling, and networks, 2) statistical optimality versus computational efficiency,
List of speakers include: Anima Anandkumar (UCI), Jianqing Fan
(Princeton), Chris Holmes (Oxford), Chenlei Leng (Warwick),
Nicolai Meinshausen (ETH), Peter Orbanz (Columbia), Gesine Reinert (Oxford),
Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh), Philippe Rigollet
(Princeton), Rajen Shah (Cambridge), Patrick Wolfe (UCL), Qiwei Yao (LSE).
Modus: Accepted contributions
will be presented as either 20 minutes talks or poster presentations .
Communication of acceptance: 30th September