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Mathematical Challenges in Scientific Data Mining

January 14 - 18, 2002

IPAM Building
Room 1200


(I): introductory talk, 1 hour, including Q/A. 
(S): specific topic talk, 45 mins, including Q/A 
(C): contributed talk, 30 mins, including Q/A 

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Monday, January 14, 2002

Morning Session

Chair: Chandrika Kamath (LLNL)

8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:30

Chandrika Kamath (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Tutorial: Introduction to scientific data mining"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:15

Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota/AHPCRC)

"Tutorial: Data mining algorithms"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Imola Fodor (LLNL)

2:00 - 3:00

Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute) (I)

"Independent Component Analysis"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Dennis Mock (UCSD) (I)

"Mining High-Throughput Biological Microarray Data"

4:30 - 5:15

Stanley Osher (IPAM & UCLA) (S)

"Level sets and their role in image/data processing"


Tuesday, January 15, 2002

Morning Session

Chair: Imola Fodor (LLNL)

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Padhraic Smyth (UC Irvine) (I)

"Data Mining: the Interface of Statistics and Computer Science"

10:00 - 10:45

Doug Nychka (NCAR) (S)

"Extracting information and building models from large geophysical datasets"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:45 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00

Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota/AHPCRC) (S)

"Discovery of Patterns in the Global Climate System using Data Mining"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 12:30

Imola Fodor and Chandrika Kamath (LLNL) (C)

"Mining the FIRST Astronomical Survey"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)

2:00 - 3:00

Rahul Ramachandran, Sara Graves, and Ken Keiser (University of Alabama in Huntsville) (I)

"Data Mining In Earth Sciences"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30

Amy Braverman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

"Reducing Size and Complexity of Large Geophysical Data Sets"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:30 - 4:00 Break

Afternoon Session II

Chair: Padhraic Smyth (UC Irvine)

4:00 - 5:00

Paul Thompson (UCLA) (I)

"Brain Image Analysis: Recent Advances and Current Mathematical/Computational Challenges"

5:00 - 5:45

Ivan Marusic (University of Minnesota) (S)

"Mining Turbulence Data"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)


Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Morning Session

Chair: Zoran Obradovic (Temple University)

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Mladen Wickerhauser (Washington University) (I)

"Applications Of Wavelets In Image Analysis"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Bir Bhanu (UC Riverside) (I)

"Learning In Computer Vision"

11:30 - 12:15

Mohammed Zaki (RPI) (S)

"Data Mining for Protein Structure Prediction"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Chair: B.S. Manjunath (UCSB)

2:00 - 3:00

George Djorgovski (Caltech) (I)

"Data Mining Challenges in Astronomy"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30

Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical University)

"Introduction to rough sets"

3:30 - 3:45 Break

Afternoon Session II

Chair: Chandrika Kamath (LLNL)

3:45 - 4:15

John Brence (United States Military Academy) and Donald Brown (University of Virginia) (C)

"Complexity challenges to the discovery corrosion relationships in Eddy current non-destructive test data"
Presentation (PDF File)

Special session on Data Mining Systems
(Graves, Grossman, Kamath: 20 mins each)

4:15 - 4:35

Rahul Ramachandran (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

"ADaM System Architecture"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:15 - 4:55

R. L. Grossman (University of Illinois at Chicago)

"Data Space: Protocols and Services for Distributed Data Mining and Remote Data Analysis"

4:55 - 5:15

Chandrika Kamath (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Sapphire System Architecture"
Presentation (PDF File)

5:15 - 6:30 Poster Session and Wine and Cheese Reception

Thursday, January 17, 2002

Morning Session

Chair: Padhraic Smyth (UC Irvine)

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Dennis DeCoste (JPL) (I)

"Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel Methods: Key Concepts, Recent Advances, and Applications"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15

Raghu Machiraju (Ohio State University) (S)

"Data Mining To Complement Visualization For Analysis Of Simulation Data"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:15 - 12:00

George Karypis (University of Minnesota) (S)

"Frequent Subgraph Discovery - Finding Patterns in Structured and Relational Scientific Data Sets"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Imola Fodor (LLNL)

2:00 - 3:00

Zoran Obradovic (Temple University) (I)

"Commoness, Complexity, Flavors and Function of Intrinsic Protein Disorder: A Bioinformatic Study"

3:00 - 3:45

Padhraic Smyth (UC Irvine) (S)

"Mixture models for data exploration and prediction"

3:45 - 4:15 Break

Afternoon Session II

Chair: Ananth Grama (Purdue University)

4:15 - 4:45

Tony Chan (UCLA), Tarek Mathew and Andy Yip (UCLA) (C)

"A scale dependent clustering model by direct maximization of homogenity and separation"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:45 - 5:30

Pierre Baldi (UC Irvine) (S)

"Data Mining In Biological Sequences"


Friday, January 18, 2002

Morning Session

Chair: Ananth Grama (Purdue University)

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45

Mike Turmon (JPL/Caltech) (S)

"Modeling Spatial Data: Challenges and Applications to Solar Imagery"
Presentation (PDF File)

9:45 - 10:15

Zoran Obradovic (Temple University) (C)

"Knowledge Discovery in Spatial and Temporal Databases"

10:15 - 10:45 Break

Morning Session II

Chair: Chandrika Kamath (LLNL)

10:45 - 11:45

Leo Breiman (UC Berkeley) (I)

"Prediction and Understanding"

11:45 - 12:30

Tony Chan (UCLA) joint with Luminita Vese (UCLA) (S)

"Variational Level Set Techniques for mining objects in images"

12:30 Conclusion

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