MGA Workshop III: Multiscale structures in the analysis of High-Dimensional Data

Part of the Long Program Multiscale Geometry and Analysis in High Dimensions
October 25 - 29, 2004

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 25, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Analysis and Learning of Manifolds in High Dimension
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Lawrence Saul (University of Pennsylvania)

Unfolding a manifold by semidefinite programming
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Manifold Structures and Information in High Dimension
2:00 - 3:00
Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota)

Comparing Point Clouds
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Alfred Hero (University of Michigan)

Information divergence in high dimensions
PDF Presentation
4:30 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00
6:00 - 7:30 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
6:30 - 7:30
Natalie Jeremijenko (University of California at San Diego)

Seeing Stars: structures of participation and designing information exchange...


Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Mathematical Issues and Embeddings in High Dimension
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Yair Bartal (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

Embedding Metrics in Ultrametrics

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

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Assaf Naor (Microsoft Research)

On the dimension of finite metric spaces

3:00 - 3:30 Break

Sonification
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Classification and Simulation in High Dimension
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Werner Stuetzle (Washington) and Tom Duchamp (Washington)

Estimation / Approximation Problems in 3D Photography
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
3:00 - 3:30 Break

Dependencies and Conditionalities in High Dimension
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45
Carey Priebe (Johns Hopkins University)

On the role of the conditionality principle in dimensionality reduction
PDF Presentation
5:45 - 7:30 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Evening Session
6:30 - 7:30
David Donoho (Stanford University)

 


Thursday, October 28, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Computational Applications in High Dimension
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00

Visualization
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45
Leland Wilkinson (SPSS and Northwestern)

Heatmaps
PDF Presentation

Friday, October 29, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Computations and Simulations in High Dimension
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Alexander Gray (Carnegie Mellon University)

High-Dimensional Integration by Statistical Inference

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

Afternoon Session

Computational Topology and Manifold Learning
2:00 - 3:00
Vin de Silva (Stanford University)

Multiscale parameters in computational topology
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Hongyuan Zha (Pennsylvania State University)

Tangent Space Alignment for Manifold Learning
PDF Presentation
4:30 - 4:45 Conclusion