The 2008 Workshop on Sparsity in High Dimensional Statistics and Learning Theory.

The Workshop will take place on March 22-24, 2008 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

The following topics will be covered:

• Asymptotic Geometric Analysis and High Dimensional Probability in Sparse Recovery Problems;
• Model Selection and Oracle Inequalities for Statistical Models of Sparsity
• Penalization techniques (such as $\ell_1$-penalization) Dantzig Selector and other methods of sparse recovery
• Greedy Approximation Methods
• Concepts of Sparsity and Complexity in Learning Theory
• Sparsity and Generalization Bounds for Learning Machines

At the moment, the list of confirmed invited speakers includes:

Andrew Barron (Yale),
Flori Bunea (Florida State),
Albert Cohen (Paris VI),
Jianqing Fan (Princeton),
Sara van de Geer (ETH),
Gitta Kutyniok (Stanford),
Robert Nowak (Wisconsin-Madison),
Vladimir Temlyakov (South Carolina),
Joel Tropp (Caltech),
Alexandre Tsybakov (CREST and Paris 6),
Ron DeVore (South Carolina),
Marten Wegkamp (Florida State University),
Jon Wellner (University of Washington),
Bin Yu (Berkeley),
Tong Zhang (Rutgers)

Organizers:

Xiaoming Huo

Vladimir Koltchinskii

Justin Romberg

Ming Yuan

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, and Schools of ISyE, Math and ECE at Georgia Tech.