Schedule

Tuesday, 26th February 2013 : Current & FutureTrends

Time	Event/ Title	Speaker
08:30 - 09:30	Registration
09:30 - 10:00	Inauguration
10:00 - 10:30	Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00	A New Distributed Framework for Data Mining	Prof. Sundar S. Balasubramaniam (BITS-Pilani)
12:00 - 13:15	Concept Based Information Retrieval	Dr. Poonam Goyal (BITS-Pilani)
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30	In-Memory Analytics	Subhabrata Banerjee (Oracle)
15:30 - 15:45	Tea Break
15:45 - 17:00	Keynote : Data Intensive Computing: A Technology Challenger and A Computing Paradigm Changer	Prof. R. K. Shyamasundar (TIFR)

Wednesday, 27th February 2013 : Applications

09:30 - 10:45	Development and application of dynamic time warping algorithms to analyses of primate brain expression time series	Prof. Phoebe Chen (La Trobe University)
10:45 - 12:00	Domain Specific Parallel Languages	Prof. R. K. Shyamasundar (TIFR)
12:00 - 12:15	Tea Break
12:15 - 13:30	Keynote : Computational Aspect of Agri-BioInformatics	Dr. Anil Rai (IASRI)
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:45 onwards	Trip: Sands and Stones of Goa

Thursday, 28 February 2013: Information Retrieval & Web Mining

09:45 - 10:45	Key Note	Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay)
10:45 - 11:00	Tea Break
11:00 - 12:15	Session Analysis and Advertisement Targeting	Dr. Venkat Kolluri (Chitika Inc.)
12:15 - 13:30	Learning for Image Retrieval	Prof. Santanu Chaudhury (IIT Delhi)
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00	Pattern Discovery in Biomedical Modelling	Prof. Phoebe Chen (La Trobe University)

Friday, 01 March 2013 : High Performance Computing & Big Data

09:30 - 10:45	Keynote : High Performance Computing for Big Data	Dr. Prahlada Rao (C-DAC)
10:45 - 11:00	Tea Break
11:00 - 12:15	Big Data - Challenges & Opportunities	Dr. Srinivasan Seshadri (Boltell)
12:15 - 13:30	GPU computing-Changing the HPC Landscape	Pradeep Gupta (NVIDIA)
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:45	Mining Astronomical Data	IUCAA
15:45 - 16:00	Valedictory

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