Kick-off event

To celebrate its start and to create awareness of the project we are organizing a kick-off event aimed at everyone interested in big data challenges. In the first part we will give a broadly accessible introduction to the motivation and goals of the project. After a reception we proceed with a small workshop aimed at researchers in algorithms.

Time: October 8, 2014, 11 AM.

Place: Auditorium 3, IT University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards Vej 7.

Program

11.00 - 11.45
Welcome by provost Jørgen Staunstrup.

Why Scalable Similarity Search? by Rasmus Pagh.
11.45 - 12.30
Tapas reception.
Workshop on Challenges for Similarity Search
12.30-12.50. Can LSH be derandomized? (Rasmus Pagh).

12.50-13.10. Private similarity search on outsourced data (Ira Assent).

13.10-13.30. Dimensions and difficulty in similarity search (Matthew Skala).

13.30-13.40. Coffee break

13.40-14.00. Searching for similar neighborhoods (Aris Gionis).

14.00-14.20. Efficient Estimation for High Similarities (Ninh Pham).

14.20-14.40. LSH for similarity search in generic metric space (Eliezer de Souza da Silva).