Workshop on Simplicity and Likelihood
November 13-15, 2009
FRIDAY | |
12:30 | Lunch and Registration |
2:00 | Nabil Al-Najjar (Northwestern University), "Coarse Decision Making" |
2:45 | Luciano De Castro (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "A Subjective Foundation of Objective Probability" |
3:30 | Break |
4:00 | Malcolm Forster (University of Wisconsin), "Counterexamples to a Likelihood Theory of Evidence" |
4:45 | Peter Grunwald (CWI), "The Catch-Up Phenomenon in Model Selection and Prediction" |
7:00 | Dinner (By invitation) |
SATURDAY | |
8:30 | Breakfast |
9:30 | Joe Halpern (Cornell University), "Cause, Responsibility, and Blame: A Structural-Model Approach" |
10:15 | Break |
10:45 | Yishay Mansour (Tel Aviv University), "Simplicity in Machine Learning" |
11:30 | Peter McCullagh (University of Chicago), "Selection Effects and Sampling Bias" |
12:15 | Lunch |
2:00 | James Robins (Harvard University), "Finding Causal Effects without Background Knowledge or Statistical Independencies" |
2:45 | Larry Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon University), "Sparse Estimators for Nonsparse Distributions" |
3:30 | Break |
4:00 | David Schmeidler (Ohio State University & Tel Aviv University), "Likelihood and Simplicity: An Axiomatic Approach" |
4:45 | David Wolpert (NASA), "Physical Limits of Inference" |
SUNDAY | |
8:30 | Breakfast |
9:30 | Aris Spanos (Virginia Tech), "Akaike-type Criteria and the Reliability of Inference" |
10:15 | Break |
10:45 | David Pollard (Yale University), "Fat-Shattering Dimension and the Role of Majorizing Measures" |
11:30 | Larry Samuelson (Yale University), "Preferring Simplicity" |
12:15 | Lunch |