SCHEDULE      PARTICIPANTS  VENUE                                                                         Graphical Models, Statistical Inference and Algorithms       Day 1: Monday, Jan 5 10:30 am - 12:30 pm   Registration   12:30 pm - 2:00 pm  Lunch Break   2:00 pm - 2:15 pm   Vivek Borkar Opening Remarks  2:15 pm - 4:15 pm (Coffee Break - 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm)  Devavrat Shah Title: Belief propagation for combinatorial optimization: matching and independent set-Part I Day 2: Tuesday, Jan 6  9:00 am - 10:30 am  Devavrat Shah Title: Belief propagation for combinatorial optimization: matching and independent set-Part II 10:30 am - 11:00 am  Coffee Break   11:00 am - 12:30 pm  Andrea Montanari and Rudi Urbanke Title: Phase transitions in coding, communications and inference-Part I 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm  Lunch Break   2:00 pm - 4:30 pm (Coffee Break - 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm)  Andrea Montanari and Rudi Urbanke Title: Phase transitions in coding, communications and inference-Part II   Day 3: Wednesday, Jan 7 9:00 am - 12:30 pm (Coffee Break - 10:30 am - 11:00 am)  Martin Wainwright Title:  Variational relaxations for graphical models:  marginal polytopes and entropy approximations - Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference - Graphical models and variational methods: Message-passing, convex relaxations, and all that 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm  Lunch Break   2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  V. Saligrama Title:  Optimal bounds and algorithms for support recovery and approximation in compressed sensing   3:00 pm - 3:30 pm  Coffee Break   3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  S. Sarawagi and R. Gupta Title: Efficient inference with cardinality-based clique potentials   Day 4: Thursday, Jan 8 9:00 am - 12:30 pm (Coffee Break - 10:30 am - 11:00 am)  Prasad Tetali  Title: Dynamical and Spatial Mixing in Spin Systems - A Tutorial on Various Aspects of Mixing - Coloring graphs 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm  Lunch Break   2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  Mokshay Madiman  TBA 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm  Coffee Break   3:30 pm - 4:00 pm  Vinay Jethava Title: Approximate inference over time using message passing 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm  Sourangshu Bhattacharyya Title: Graphical models for sub-pointset matching   Day 5: Friday, Jan 9 9:00 am - 12:30 pm (Coffee Break - 10:30 am - 11:00 am)  David Gamarnik Title: Spatial correlation decay and deterministic counting 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm  Lunch Break   2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  V. Anantharam Title: Anonymity via networks of mixes 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm  Coffee Break   3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  Damon Wischik Title: Performance analysis of distributed applications 4:30 am - 4:45 pm  Vivek Borkar Closing Remarks     Organisers: Vivek Borkar, Onkar Dabeer and Devavrat Shah