Breakfast & Welcome - 8:15-8:45 am

Session I - 8:45-10:45 am
Learning to Optimize via Information-Directed Sampling
Daniel Russo, Stanford University
Joint work with Benjamin Van Roy

Boosting Methods in Regression: Computational Guarantees and Regularization via Subgradient Optimization
Paul Grigas, MIT
Joint work with Rob Freund and Rahul Mazumder

Weakly Supervised Clustering: Learning Fine-Grained Signals from Coarse Labels
Stefan Wager, Stanford University
Joint work with Alexander Blocker and Niall Cardin

Fast Generalized Subset Scan for Anomalous Pattern Detection
Edward McFowland III, Carnegie Mellon University
Joint work with Skyler Speakman and Daniel B. Neill

Session II - 11:00-12:30 pm
Optimal A-B Testing
Nikhil Bhat, Columbia University
Joint work with Vivek Farias and Ciamac Moallemi

Optimality Gap of Constant-Order Policies Decays Exponentially in the Lead Time for Lost Sales Models
Linwei Xin, Georgia Tech
Joint work with David A. Goldberg

Procurement Mechanisms for Differentiated Products
Daniela Saban, Columbia University
Joint work with Gabriel Weintraub

Session III - 2:00-4:00 pm
Robust Product Line Design
Velibor Misic, MIT
Joint work with Dimitris Bertsimas

The Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff in the Newsvendor Problem
Juan M. Chaneton, Columbia University
Joint work with Omar Besbes and Ciamac Moallemi

Optimization Models and Insights for Promotion Planning
Maxime Cohen, MIT
Joint work with Zachary Leung, Georgia Perakis, Kiran Panchamgam and Anthony Smith

Energy Scheduling for Emerging Large Scale Power Systems: Decentralized Optimization Approaches
Mohammad Javad Feizollahi, Georgia Tech
Joint work with Shabbir Ahmed

Session IV - 4:30-6:00 pm
Mirror Prox Algorithm for Multi-Term Composite Minimization and Semi-Separable Problems
Niao He, Georgia Tech
Joint work with Anatoli Juditsky and Arkadi Nemirovski

Robust Sample Average Approximation
Nathan Kallus, MIT
Joint work with Dimitris Bertsimas and Vishal Gupta

Recent Developments on the Oracle Complexity of Convex Optimization
Cristobal Guzman, Georgia Tech
Joint work with Gabor Braun, Arkadi Nemirovski and Sebastian Pokutta