Around the blogs in 80 hours, ICALP2011GT program

Danny Bickson mentions a list of Matrix Factorization made by Marinka Zitnik and specifically the ones implemented in GraphLab (a competitor to Hadoop). Marinka Zitnik works on Orange for her Google Summer of Code project. From the Orange webpage:

Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting. Components for machine learning. Extensions for bioinformatics and text mining. Packed with features for data analytics.

Other matrix factorizations can be found here. Maybe we ought to have a place where all these are listed ?

Bob has three new entries:

• Recovery of Compressively Sensed Sparse Signals in Noise, pt. 2 Fascinating.
• Tropp's More Useful Exact Recovery Condition
• Consider a dictionary of two atoms that analysis reminded me of non-normal operators with nearly co-linear eigenvectors.

Andrew: RANDOM/APPROX accepts…

Gonzalo: Is the PHY Layer Dead? about how sensing in hardware is dead or not in cognitive radio.. Fascinating stuff.

Dan: Simulating visual artifacts with Fourier optics

Meena: Shape analysis: on selecting a set of points or landmarks

Machine4Vision has a view from the trenches: Plan for the worst (and hope for the best)

The program for the ICALP2011GT is out (the meeting is mentioned in the meeting page), lots of interesting presentations:

Date 3rd July

9:00	Opening
9:05	Invited talk (tba)
9:55	Coffee break
10:20	Efficient two-stage group testing algorithms for DNA screening Michael Huber
10:45	Optimal randomized group testing: A canonical form and the one-defective case Peter Damaschke
11:10	Finding m of D defective elements in some group testing models Rudolf Ahlswede, Christian Deppe, and Vladimir Lebedev
11:35	small break
11:45	Bacterial community reconstruction using compressed sensing Amnon Amir and Or Zuk
12:10	Identification of rare alleles and their carriers using compressed se(que)nsing Noam Shental, Amnon Amir and Or Zuk
12:35	Lunch break
14:00	Invited talk (tba)
14:50	small break
15:00	A group testing approach to improved corruption localizing hashing Annalisa De Bonis and Giovanni Di Crescenzo
15:25	A mutual information characterization for sparse signal processing George Atia and Venkatesh Saligrama
15:50	Meeting your neighbours Avery Miller
16:15	Coffee break
16:35	Invited talk (tba)
17:25	Using group testing for pattern matching applications Yonatan Aumann, Moshe Lewenstein, Noa Lewenstein, and Dekel Tsur
17:50	From coding theory to efficient pattern matching Raphael Clifford, Ely Porat, and Amir Rothschild
18:15	Closing

Credit: NASA, ISS027-E-036759 (23 May 2011) --- This image of the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 220 miles, was taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking on May 23, 2011 (USA time). The pictures taken by Nespoli are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the International Space Station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Onboard the Soyuz were Russian cosmonaut and Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev; Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut; and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman. Coleman and Nespoli were both flight engineers. The three landed in Kazakhstan later that day, completing 159 days in space.