October 3, 2017 – Opening Tutorials
October 4-6, 2017 – Conference Sessions

The Fifty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing will kick off with Opening Tutorials being held on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at the Coordinated Science Laboratory on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The conference sessions will start on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 through Friday, October 6, 2017, at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center. The Allerton House is located twenty-six miles southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in a wooded area on the Sangamon River. It is part of the fifteen-hundred acre Robert Allerton Park, a complex of natural and man-made beauty designated as a National natural landmark. Allerton Park has twenty miles of well-maintained trails and a living gallery of formal gardens, studded with sculptures collected from around the world.

PLENARY LECTURE by John Lafferty , Louis Block Professor, Department of Statistics & Computer Science, University of Chicago is scheduled for Friday, October 6, 2017 at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center.

OPENING TUTORIAL LECTURES by Nathan Srebro , Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin , Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania will be presented on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Registration Opens: August 7, 2017

Conference Co-Chairs: Naira Hovakimyan and Negar Kiyavash

Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.csl.illinois.edu/events/featured/55th-annual-allerton-conference-communication-control-and-computing