I have been asked to give two tutorial lectures at this fall’s Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines workshop series at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, which is a part of UCLA.
I just found out about this (me presenting), so it looks like I’ll be busy preparing the talks from now until then. When I find out more information I will post it here.
Here is an overview of the workshop series:
The rise of the search engine as a major tool for searches on the internet has spawned a large and growing
industry that has changed modern commerce, education, and the study of scientific, financial, and social data
bases. The underpinnings of these search engines are mathematical algorithms which are well adapted to large
and rapid computations, mainly from linear algebra. While the impact of this industry has been enormous, there
is a parallel development in the applications of these methods to other related problems concerning the
extraction of knowledge from large databases. This long program at IPAM will be devoted to new mathematics
and methodologies of knowledge engines: the mathematical procedures used to extract knowledge from large
databases. While this includes topics related to search engines it is mainly devoted to the more general problem
of finding features in a database or using defined features to search within a database. It is expected that this
program will be of interest to a large number of scientific fields, including pure and applied mathematics,
statistics, bioinformatics, and engineering.
In addition to the tutorial sessions, the rest of the workshops are as follows:
- Dynamic Searches and Knowledge Building
- Numerical Tools and Fast Algorithms for Massive Data Mining, Search Engines and Applications
- Social Data Mining and Knowledge Building
- Search and Knowledge Building for Biological Datasets