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 |