Berkeley Inria Stanford 2011, the first workshop co-organized by CITRIS and Inria

The first workshop Berkeley-Inria-Stanford 2011 (BIS’11) is a joint workshop hosted by CITRIS, Berkeley Campus, on May 23-24, 2011 and co-organized by CITRIS and Inria in partnership with Berkeley and Stanford Universities. BIS’11 is the first workshop launched within the framework of the joint research program Inria@SiliconValley. The objectives of this workshop are two-fold: first, to present the current state of scientific collaborations and second to work on proposal for future ambitious joint projects.

• Date: Monday & Tuesday, May 23 – 24, 2011
• Location: The Banatao Institute@CITRIS Berkeley
  UC Berkeley, Sutardja Dai Hall, Auditorium, Level 3
• Map/Directions: How to come
• Organisers: Banatao Institute@CITRIS Berkeley and Inria

Partnership Program

Monday May 23

9:00-9:30am – OPENING SESSION

• Computational Science and Engineering for Addressing Society Challenges
  Paul Wright – CITRIS Director
• Inria Scientific Challenges for the Digital Society – Abstract (pdf)
  Claude Kirchner – Executive Officer for Research and Technology Transfer for Innovation – Inria
• Presentation of the program
  Malik Ghallab – Inria / CITRIS

9:30-10:30am – CONFERENCES

• Communication Optimal Algorithms for Linear Algebra – Abstract (pdf) – Presentation (pdf)
  Jim Demmel – UC Berkeley & Laura Grigori – Inria
• Numerical Methods for Uncertainty Quantification and Prediction of High Reynolds Number Flows – Abstract (pdf)
  Pietro Marco Congedo – Inria & Charbel Farhat, Gianluca Iaccarino – Stanford University

10:30-11:00am – COFFEE BREAK

11:00-12:15am – CONFERENCES

• Scalable Hybrid Solvers for Large Sparse Linear Systems of Equations on Petascale Computing Architectures – Abstract (pdf) – Presentation (pdf)
  Esmond Ng, Xiaoye Sherry Li – LBNL & Jean Roman – Inria
• Designing an energy efficient climate supercomputer for the exascale era – Abstract (pdf)
  Leonid Oliker – LBNL

12:30-1:30pm – LUNCH – KEYNOTE TALK

• Shankar Sastry, Dean of Engineering – UC Berkeley
  Session moderated by Jean-Paul Jacob, Special Advisor to CITRIS

2:00-3:30pm – CONFERENCES

• Computational Methods for Blood Flows – Abstract (pdf) – Presentation (pdf)
  Jean-Frédéric Gerbeau – Inria & Rashmi Raghu – Stanford University
• Toward Smart-tuned Post-petascale Librairies and Methods –  Abstract (pdf)
  Leroy Anthony Drummond – LBNL & Serge Petiton – Inria
• Current Challenges for Parallel Graph Partitioning – Abstract (pdf)
  François Pellegrini- University of Bordeaux / Inria

3:30-4:00pm – COFFEE BREAK

4:00-5:30pm – CONFERENCES

• Data Systems for Enabling Next Generation Scientific Insight
  Keith R. Jackson – LBNL
• Availability in Large Distributed Systems – Abstract (pdf)
  Bruno Gaujal – Inria & David Anderson – UC Berkeley
• Computer Virology: Self-modification and Dynamic Behavior Analysis – Abstract (pdf)
  Jean-Yves Marion – Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine / Inria
• Cognitive-radio inspired wireless research challenges – Abstract (pdf)
  Anant Sahai – UC Berkeley & François Baccelli – Inria

Tuesday May 24

9:00-10:00am – CONFERENCES

• Representational and Inferential Foundations for Possible Large-scale Information Extraction and Question-answering from the Web – Abstract (pdf)
  Stuart Russell – UC Berkeley
• Fast Statistical Analysis of Text Databases via Sparse Learning
  Laurent El Ghaoui – UC Berkeley

10:00-10:30am – COFFEE BREAK

10:30-12:00am – CONFERENCES

• Opinion Space: Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Public Opinion and Crowdsource Insights – Abstract (pdf)
  Ken Goldberg – UC Berkeley
• Topological and Geometrical Analysis of High-dimensional Data
  Jean-Daniel Boissonnat – INRIA & Leo Guibas – Stanford University
• Data-driven 3D Modeling – Abstract (pdf)
  Vladlen Koltun – Stanford University

12:00-1:30pm – LUNCH – PANEL DISCUSSION

• Vision and strategy for tomorrow’s challenges
  Moderator: Hélène Kirchner, Head of International Affairs Department – Inria
  Panelists:
  David Culler, UC Berkeley – Abstract (pdf)
  Pravin Varaiya, UC Berkeley – Abstract (pdf)
  Kimmen Sjölander, UC Berkeley – Abstract (pdf)
  Scott Klemmer, Stanford University – Abstract (pdf)
  Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Inria

1:30-3:00pm – CONFERENCES

• Human Centered Robotics – Abstract (pdf)
  Oussama Khatib – Stanford University
• Traffic Monitoring and Control Systems and Tools – Abstract (pdf)
  Roberto Horowitz, Pravin Varaiya – UC Berkeley & Carlos Canudas de Wit – Inria
• Geometric Coarse-grained Models and Knowledge-based Potentials for Biomolecular Structure Evaluation – Abstract (pdf)
  Julie Bernauer – Inria & A. Sim, P. Minary – Stanford

3:00-3:30pm – COFFEE BREAK

3:30-5:00pm – CONFERENCES

• Comm Apps: An Alternative to Facebook for Helping People Stay in Touch With Close Family and Friends – Abstract (pdf)
  Wendy McKay – Inria
• Creating, Rendering and Interacting with Images based on the Study of Perception – Abstract (pdf) – Presentation (pdf)
  Maneesh Agrawala – UC Berkeley & Georges Drettakis – Inria
• Recognizing Objects in Images – Abstract (pdf)
  Jitendra Malik – UC Berkeley

5:00pm – CONCLUDING REMARKS

• Paul Wright – CITRIS & Claude Kirchner – Inria