Morning Session 7:30-10:30 am

7:30 am Opening Remarks
Michael Mahoney
7:55 am Greedy Nystrom Approximation
Ahmed K. Farahat, Ali Ghodsi, Mohamed S. Kamel
8:20 am Sublinear Optimization for Machine Learning, and its Relatives
Ken Clarkson (Invited Talk)
9:00 am Poster Session I and Coffee Break
9:40 am Low-rank Methods for Learning Quantum States
Stephen Becker, Brielin Brown, Jens Eisert, Steve Flammia, David Gross, Yi-Kai Liu
10:05 am Online Learning in the Manifold of Low-Rank Matrices
Uri Shalit, Daphna Weinshall, Gal Chechik

Afternoon Session 3:30-6:30 pm

3:30 pm Randomized Algorithms for Low-Rank Approximations and Data Applications
Petros Drineas (Invited Talk)
4:10 pm Normalized Power Iterations for the Computation of SVD
Per-Gunnar Martinsson, Arthur Szlam, Mark Tygert
4:35 pm Spotlight Talks
Column Subset Selection with Missing Data
Laura Balzano, Robert Nowak, Waheed U. Bajwa
Latent Factor Topic Models with Rank-Reducing Beta Process Priors
John Paisley, David Blei
Large Scale GPU Based Inference for the Infinite Relational Model
Toke Jansen Hansen, Morten Morup, Lars Kai Hansen
Grappling with Gigantic Matrices: Fast Approximations based on Distance Geometry
Christian Thurau, Kristian Kersting, Christian Bauckhage, Novi Quadrianto
Restricted Strong Convexity and Weighted Matrix Completion: Optimal Bounds with Noise
Sahand Negahban, Martin J. Wainwright
5:00 pm Poster Session II and Coffee Break
5:50 pm Some Recent Advances in the Theory of Low-rank Modeling
Emmanuel Candes (Invited Talk)