Saturday, October 27, 2012
Gleacher Center, Chicago
9:00 Opening remarks—Yali Amit
9:10–9:30 Risi Kondor "Wavelets on the Symmetric Group"
9:35–9:55 John Lafferty, "Computational and Statistical Aspects of Statistical Machine Learning"
10:00–10:20 Lek-Heng Lim, "Tensors"
10:25–10:45 Jonathan Weare, "Long Time Scales and Unlikely Events: Sampling and Coarse Graining Strategies"
10:50–11:10 Mihai Anitescu, "Directions in Optimization/Nonlinear Programming"
11:15–11:35 Michael Stein, "Some Areas of Recent Research"
11:40–12:00 Todd Dupont, "Applications of Optimal Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations"
12:00–1:00 Lunch in North Lounge (Rm 350)
1:00–1:20 Per Mykland, "Financial High Frequency Data"
1:25–1:55 John Reinitz, "Systems Biology of Pattern Formation, Canalization and Transcription in the Drosophila Blastoderm"
2:00–2:20 Matthew Stephens, "Statistical Genetics"
2:25–2:45 Nicolas Brunel, "Theoretical Neuroscience: From Single Neuron to Network Dynamics"
2:50–3:00 Yali Amit, "Pattern Recognition: Computer vs. Brain"
3:00–4:00 General Discussion