Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition - IPAM

Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition

July 6 - 16, 2011

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Introductory Remarks
09:00-10:00
Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Bayesian Cognition 1
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Bayesian Cognition II
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Noah Goodman (Stanford University)
Introduction to graphical models and probabilistic programs I
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Noah Goodman (Stanford University)
Introduction to graphical models and probabilistic programs II
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Alan Yuille (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Bayesian vision
17:00-18:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Iain Murray (University of Edinburgh)
Bayesian machine learning
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Iain Murray (University of Edinburgh)
Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh)
Foundational models of language I
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Sharon Goldwater (University of Edinburgh)
Foundational models of language II
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:30
Andreas Stuhlmueller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Other inference techniques
16:30-17:00
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (University of Toronto)
Approximate Inference
17:00-18:00
Evening Q&A (Optional)
18:00-20:30
Dinner (on your own)
20:30-20:30
Evening Session at IPAM
20:30-21:30
Jun Zhang (University of Michigan)
Bayesian model of information accumulation in choice-reaction time tasks

Friday, July 8, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Iain Murray (University of Edinburgh)
Advanced Markov Chain Monte Carlo
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (University of Toronto)
Deep Networks
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Human learning to learn via hierarchical models
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (University of Toronto)
Machine learning and advanced hierarchical models
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Brian Milch (Google Inc.)
BLOG
17:00-18:00
Evening Q&A (Optional)

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)
Markov logic
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)
More Markov logic
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Noah Goodman (Stanford University)
Church (and the Probabilistic Language of Thought)
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Judea Pearl (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Reasoning with Causes and Counterfactuals
17:00-18:00
Optional Discussion

Monday, July 11, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
Elie Bienenstock (Brown University)
Computation and Representation in Brains: A few Observations and one Speculation
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Stuart Geman (Brown University)
Representing Relationships: Conditional Modeling and Sufficiency
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Stuart Geman (Brown University)
Context versus Computation
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Laurence Maloney (New York University)
Human sensory systems as perceptual inference
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Hongjing Lu (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Probabilistic models of motion perception
17:00-18:30
Reception and Talk at IPAM
18:30-19:30
Tomaso Poggio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The computational magic of the ventral stream: towards a theory

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Alan Yuille (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Probability models for vision with known graph structure I & II
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Alan Yuille (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Compositional learning for vision
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Laurence Maloney (New York University)
Decision making and motor control
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Song-Chun Zhu (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Learning And-Or Graph Representations for Objects and Events
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Song-Chun Zhu (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Top-down/Bottom-up Inference in And-Or graphs
17:00-18:00
Evening Q&A (Optional)
18:00-20:30
Dinner (on your own)
20:30-20:30
Evening Session at IPAM
20:30-21:30
Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Intuitive Physics in the context of visual scene understanding

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)
Non-parametric language models I
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)
Non-parametric language models II
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Roger Levy (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Sentence processing: Surprisal and noisy channel models
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Percy Liang (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Inducing Semantics
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Timothy O'Donnell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Fragment Grammars: Productivity and reuse in language
17:00-18:00
Evening Q&A (Optional)
18:00-20:30
Dinner (on your own)
20:30-20:30
Evening Session at IPAM
20:30-21:30
Percy Liang (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Learning syntax

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Noah Goodman (Stanford University)
Probabilistic Pragmatics (and Semantics)
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Roger Levy (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Language use, eye movements
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Naomi Feldman (University of Maryland)
Models of phonology
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Charles Kemp (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Predicate logic and human learning
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Charles Kemp (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Kinship
17:00-18:00
Evening Q&A (Optional)
18:00-20:30
Dinner (on your own)
20:30-20:30
Evening Session at IPAM
20:30-21:30
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Bayesian theory of mind
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Noah Goodman (Stanford University)
Learning structured concepts from structured minds
11:30-12:00
Break

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:00
Charles Kemp (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Learning abstract structural forms, learning about social systems
13:00-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:30
Tom Griffiths (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Human causal induction
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Tom Griffiths (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People
17:00-18:00
Evening Q&A (Optional)

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Tom Griffiths (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Rational Process Models
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-12:30
Wrap -Up Discussion: Noah Goodman, Tom Griffiths, Keith Holyoak, Stuart Geman, Josh Tennenbaum, Alan Yuille, Mark Johnson
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