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• Stephan Langerman(Université Libre de Bruxelles), Tilings and unfoldings, hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamamoto
• Greg Dudek(McGill University), Robotic System Design for Automated Marine Data Collection , hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamamoto
• Adam Jatowt(Kyoto University), Estimating Document Comprehensibility and Comprehensibility-enhanced Search
• Xuefeng Liang(Kyoto University), Visual Attention Inspired Distant View and Close-Up View Classification
• Takashi Horiyama(Saitama University), On the Enumeration of Unfoldings of Polyhedra, hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamamoto
• Michael Houle(NII), An Extreme-Value-Theoretic Foundation for Similarity Applications, hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamamoto
• Francois Le Gall(Kyoto University), Random Walks and Space Complexity
• Abuzer Yakaryilmaz(University of Latvia), The Power of a Single Qubit, hosted by F. Le Gall
• Cathal Gurrin(DCU, Ireland), The Information Retrieval Challenge of Personal Lifelogs, hosted by Adam Jatowt
• Bakhadyr Khoussainov(University of Auckland), Parity Games are Fixed Parameter Tractable, hosted by Adam Jatowt
• Jun Tani(KAIST, Korea), How can we Develop 'Deep Minds' of Robots?, hosted by Xuefeng Liang
• David Bremner(University of New Brunswick), Small Linear Programs for Decision Problems, hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamamoto
• Zhenglu Yang(Nankai University), Exploration on Searching Similar Short Texts, hosted by Adam Jatowt
• Bingkai Lin(National Institute of Informatics), Gap Amplification Using Bipartite Random Graphs, hosted by F. Le Gall
• Skip Jordan(Hokkaido University), mts: A Framework for Parallel Tree Search, hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamamoto

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• Colin de la Higuera(Université de Nantes), Grammatical inference: learning grammars and automata, hosted by A. Yamamoto
• Arnaud Dessein(Université de Bordeaux), Regularized Optimal Transport and the Rot Mover's Distance, hosted by M.Cuturi
• Rudy Raymond(IBM Japan), Introduction to Mathematical Optimization Methods and Applications at IBM Research, hosted by D. Avis and M. Cuturi
• Chee Seng Chan(University of Malaya), A Deep Convolutional Network for Fine-art Paintings Classification, hosted by X. Liang
• Luc Devroye(McGill), On the shape of random trees, hosted by D. Avis and M. Cuturi
• Adam Jatowt(Kyoto University), Bridging Past with Present: Information Retrieval and Processing in Document Archives
• Marco Cuturi(Kyoto University), Regularized Optimal Transport and Applications,
• François Le Gall(Kyoto University), The complexity of matrix multiplication, hosted by Adam Jatowt
• Bill Cook(Waterloo), In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman, hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamomoto
• Peter Eades(Sydney), Big Social Networks, Linear Algebra, and a Little Electricity, hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamamoto
• Sebastian Pokutta(Georgia Institute of Technology), Extension Complexity: an overview, hosted by D. Avis and A. Yamamoto
• Mathieu Blondel(NTT Communication Science Laboratories), Polynomial Networks and Factorization Machines: New Insights and Efficient Training Algorithms, hosted by M. Cuturi

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• Natasha Devroye(University of Illinois at Chicago), A touch of network information theory , hosted by D. Avis
• Jakob Eriksson (University of Illinois at Chicago), Tracking your every move - today and tomorrow, hosted by D. Avis
• Jean-François Aujol (Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux - CNRS), Mathematical modelling of textures, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Klaus-Robert Müller (T.U. Berlin), Machine Learning & Big Data, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Jean-Luc Rouas (Bordeaux Computer Science Research Laboratory, LABRI), Introduction to automatic speech processing and its application to language studies, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Zonghua Zhang (Institut Mines-Télécom/TELECOM Lille), Towards Cyber Attacks Mitigation: from Cost-effective Security Hardening to Autonomic Cyberdefense, hosted by X. Liang
• Endre Boros (Rutgers University), NIM, Co-NIM, and hypergraph-NIM, hosted by K. Iwama
• Francois Le Gall (University of Tokyo), Overview of the Recent Progress on Matrix Multiplication, hosted by D. Avis
• Rajeev Raman (University of Leicester), Encodings = (Data Structures) - (Data), hosted by K. Iwama
• Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University), The Research Program of the Distributed Digital Music Archives and Libraries Laboratory at McGill University, hosted by A. Jatowt

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• Nicolas Bonneel (Université de Lyon - CNRS), Temporally Consistent Video Processing, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Nicolas Papadakis (Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux - CNRS), Color transfer and image segmentation with optimal transport, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Michael Gastner (Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest), How to find communities in networks, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Wolfgang Bein (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), The Smart Grid, Competitive Power-down Mechanisms and Energy Networks, hosted by K. Iwama
• Chung-Shou Liao (National Tsing Hua University), Online Route Planning - the Canadian Traveller Problem Revisited, hosted by K. Iwama
• Magnús M. Halldórsson (Reykjavik University), The algorithmic study of wireless networking, hosted by K. Iwama
• Bruce Reed (NII, Kyoto), Random Models Of 21st Century Networks And Their Connectivity Structure, hosted by D. Avis
• Gabriel Peyré (Université Paris Dauphine), Entropic Approximation of Wasserstein Gradient Flow, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Ajay Asra (National University Singapore), Multilevel Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Kevin Kelly (Carnegie Mellon University), A Non-circular Justification of Ockham’s Razor in Theoretical Inference , hosted by Akihiro Yamamoto
• Kazuki Yoshizoe (University of Tokyo), Theory, practice, and parallelization of Monte Carlo Tree Search, hosted by D. Avis
• Sourav Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University), Towards HCI-aware Data Management: Bridging The Chasm Between HCI and Data Management, hosted by Adam Jatowt
• David Peleg (Weizmann Institute), Elite and Periphery in Social Networks: An Axiomatic Approach , hosted by K. Iwama

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• Justin Solomon (Stanford University), Transportation Techniques for Geometric Data Processing, hosted by M. Cuturi
• David Avis (Kyoto University and McGill University), Linear Programming, Integer Programming and the P vs NP Question
• Mathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratories), Online Passive-Aggressive Algorithms for Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and Completion, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Toru Tamaki (Hiroshima University), Computer vision + Computer graphics = Tomography, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Pavel Klavik (Charles University), A New Approach to Sharing Your Understanding, hosted by K. Iwama
• Aaditya Ramdas (Carneggie Mellon University), On the High-dimensonal Power of a Nonparametric Two Sample Test in High Dimensions, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Robert Kowalski (Imperial College), Towards a Science of Computing, hosted by A. Yamamoto
• Aleksandar Shurbevski (Kyoto University), A Simple Routing Problem Turned Complex, and an Approximation Framework in Response, hosted by D. Avis
• Chen Change Loy (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Learning a Deep Convolutional Network for Image Super-Resolution , hosted by Xuefeng Liang
• Rajeev Raman(University of Leicester), Succinct Data Structures and Applications , hosted by A. Yamamoto
• Adnan Darwiche(UCLA), The Same-Decision Probability: Theory and Applications, hosted by A. Yamamoto
• Hiroshi Imai(University of Tokyo), Matchings, Transversals and Their Extensions to Polymatroids Related to Graphs, hosted by D. Avis

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• Mikkel Thorup (University of Copenhagen), Bottom-k and Priority Sampling, Set Similarity and Subset Sums with Minimal Independence, hosted by K. Iwama
• Gabriel Peyré (Université Paris Dauphine), Optimal Transport in Imaging Sciences, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Sushmita Gupta (Kyoto University), Paging and server problems revisited : New approaches in online algorithms, hosted by K. Iwama
• David Bremner (University of New Brunswick), Computing symmetry groups of convex polyhedra, hosted by D. Avis
• Christian Nitschke (Kyoto University), Corneal Imaging: An Introduction to Corneal Reflection Analysis and Applications, hosted by A. Jatowt
• Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University), Gathering and Organising Lifelogs, a new Information Retrieval Challenge, hosted by A. Jatowt
• Gena Hahn (Université de Montréal), Cops and Robbers Games on Graphs, hosted by D. Avis
• Frank Nielsen (Sony CS Labs, Ecole Polytechnique), Information-theoretic clustering with applications, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Mahito Sugiyama (Osaka University), Distance-based outlier detection via sampling, hosted by A. Yamamoto
• Koji Tsuda (University of Tokyo), Controlling False Discoveries in Data Mining, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Kevin Duh (NAIST), Learning Word Representations in Context, hosted by A. Jatowt
• Yi-Zhe Song (Queen Mary, University of London), Intra-Category Sketch-Based Image Retrieval by Matching Deformable Part Models, hosted by X.F. Liang
• Dongwon Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Inferring Personal and Group Traits from Social Media, hosted by A. Jatowt

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• Stefan Langerman (ULB), Bichromatic compatible matchings, hosted by D. Avis
• Michael Lampis (Kyoto University), Baby steps towards TSP inapproximability, hosted by K. Iwama
• Jesper Jansson (Kyoto University), Counting Triangles to Compute the Rooted Triplet Distance between Galled Trees, hosted by K. Iwama
• Yu Cao (Arizona State University), Designing Smarter SoCs for Reliability, hosted by K. Iwama
• Kyoung Mu Lee (Seoul National University), Visual Tracking by Uncertainty Analysis, hosted by X. Liang
• Philip Knight (University of Strathclyde), The How and Why of Balancing, hosted by M. Cuturi
• Xin HAN (Dalian University of Technology), Complexity of Two-machine Flow Shop Scheduling with One Transporter, hosted by K. Iwama
• Gael Dias (Normandie University), Temporal Web Information Retrieval: Text and Image, hosted by A. Jatowt
• Robert Kowalski (Imperial College London), English, Logic, and the Language of Thought, hosted by A. Yamamoto
• Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern University), Combinatorial Algorithms and Computational Complexity for DNA Self-Assembly, hosted by K. Iwama
• Md. Saidur Rahman (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), Pairwise Compatibility Graphs, hosted by K. Iwama
• Skip Jordan (Hokkaido University), Experimental Descriptive Complexity, hosted by D. Avis
• Hans Tiwary (Charles University), Extended formulations: recent results and outlook, hosted by D. Avis
• Mark Schmidt (Simon Fraser University), Opening up the black-box: faster optimization methods for non-smooth and big-data problems, hosted by M. Cuturi

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• David Rappaport (Queen's), Triangles and T. rex: Digital technology in support of museum services, hosted by David Avis
• Antoine Deza (McMaster), Colourful linear programming and simplicial depth, hosted by David Avis
• Sanjeev Arora (Princeton), Is Machine Learning Tractable? — Three Vignettes, hosted by Kazuo Iwama
• Alejandro Ribes (EDF R&D), Image Spectrometers for the scanning of fine-art paintings, hosted by Xuefeng Liang
• Mia Persson (Malmö University), A fast parallel algorithm for minimum-cost small integral flows, hosted by Kazuo Iwama
• Stanko Trifkovic (Kyoto U), Spatial Distribution and Hidden Trees in Bitterlich’s Angle-Count Sampling
• Marco Cuturi (Kyoto U), Mean Reversion with a Variance Threshold
• Aapo Hyvärinen　(University of Helsinki, ATR), Analysing brain waves by unsupervised learning methods, hosted by Akihiro Yamamoto
• Xuefeng Liang (Kyoto U), Segmentation of multiple interdependent motions using potential surface
• Adam Jatowt (Kyoto U), Estimating focus time of documents
• Francois Le Gall (University of Tokyo), Matrix Multiplication and Graph Algorithms, hosted by Akihiro Yamamoto
• Toby Hocking (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Learning penalties for change-point detection using max-margin interval regression. hosted by Marco Cuturi
• Ryuhei Uehara (JAIST) , Common developments of different polyhedra, hosted by Xuefeng Liang
• Jean-Philippe Vert　(Mines ParisTech, Institut Curie), Learning with structured sparsity in computational biology, hosted by Marco Cuturi
• Teruko Takada　(Graduate School of Business, Osaka City University), Robust big data analysis of financial bubbles,　hosted by Akihiro Yamamoto and Marco Cuturi
• Shinichi Nakajima　(Nikon Corporation), Global Solution and Theoretical Guarantee of Variational Bayesian PCA, hosted by Marco Cuturi
• Sourav S Bhovmick (Nanyang Technological University), Towards In Silico Network-driven Combination Drug Therapy: A Big “Small” Data Problem, hosted by Adam Jatowt

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• Kazuo Iwama, Adam Jatowt, David Avis (Kyoto University), G30 Project Research Overview
• Hans Raj Tiwary (Universite libre de Bruxelles), Equivalence between communication protocols and extended formulations for integer programs, hosted by David Avis
• Marco Cuturi, Xuefeng Liang, Stanko Trifkovic (Kyoto University), G30 Project Research Overview
• Ching-man Au Yeung (Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)), Looking through the Cloud - Cloud Computing and Its Core Technologies, hosted by Adam Jatowt
• Hwann-Tzong Chen (National Tsing Hua University), Video Object Cosegmentation, hosted by Xuefeng Liang
• Alan Johnston (UCL), Dynamic Face Perception, hosted by Xuefeng Liang
• Takeshi Tokuyama (Tohoku University), Area minimization of convex hull of movable objects: Algorithmic convex Kakeya problem, hosted by David Avis
• Jon Noel (McGill University), A Proof of Ohba's List Colouring Conjecture, hosted by David Avis
• Hong Shen (University of Adelaide), Effective Methods for Survivable Network Design, hosted by Kazuo Iwama
• David Kinny (Kyoto University), Why losing can be harder than winning
• Chien-Chung Huang (MPI Saarbruecken), Uniqueness and Social Cost of Equilibria in Atomic Splittable Routing Games, hosted by Kazuo Iwama
• Alvaro Cassinelli (University of Tokyo), Performing Time, Space and Light, hosted by Marco Cuturi
• Taiji Suzuki (University of Tokyo), Fast Algorithm and Statistical Theory of Multiple Kernel Learning, hosted by Marco Cuturi
• Gael Dias (University of Caen Basse-Normandie), First order association measures for Multiword Unit Extraction, hosted by Adam Jatowt
• Lorenzo Rosasco (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Italian Institute of Technology), Towards a statistical theory of learning data representation, hosted by Marco Cuturi

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• Ichiro Takeuchi (Nagoya Institute of Technology), Parametric Optimization in Machine Learning
• Oliver Friedmann (Institut für Informatik), Exponential Lower Bounds for Solving Infinitary Payoff Games and Linear Programs
• Mikkel Thorup (University of Copenhagen), Combinatorial coloring of 3-colorable graphs
• Bruce Shepherd (McGill University), On combinatorial optimization problems with side constraints
• Andris Ambainis (University of Latvia), Variable time amplitude amplification and quantum algorithms for linear algebra problems
• Shengyu Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), On the Complexity of Trial and Error
• John Watrous (Univ. of Waterloo), Quantum computing, interactive proofs, and QIP = PSPACE
• Peter Surový (the Institute of Statistical Mathematics), Examples of Applied Informatics in Forest Management and Modeling
• Yoshinobu Kawahara (Osaka University), Learning with discrete convexity
• Matthew DeBrecht (CiNet, NICT), Machine learning applications to Brain Machine Interfaces
• Francois Le Gall (University of Tokyo), Testing Efficiently Algebraic Properties
• Shang-Hong Lai (National Tsing Hua University), Statistical Modeling of 3D Facial Expression Deformation and Its Applications
• Yi-Shin Chen (National Tsing Hua University), HOMME: Hierarchical-Ontological Mind Map Explorer
• Francois Le Gall (University of Tokyo), Faster Algorithms for Rectangular Matrix Multiplication
• Kevin Duh (NAIST), Learning with multiple objectives

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