EPSRC Symposium Workshop on Information extraction from complex data sets (INF)

14-17 September 2009

Organisers: D Wild, S Mukherjee, Z Ghahramani (Cambridge)

LOCATION Room B3.03 Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building

PROGRAMME

ABSTRACTS

Monday 14th September

Morning Session

10:30-11:15 Registration (MRC Room B1.37): Tea/coffee

11:15 - 11:30 Robert Mackay: Welcome and Introduction to Workshop and Symposium Year
11:30 - 12:30 Simon Tavaré: Some statistical issues in the analysis of Illumina sequencing experiments

12:30-2:30 lunch

Afternoon Session

2:30-3:30 Michael Stumpf: Model selection from single cell data
3:30 - 4:00 break/tea
4:00- 5:00 Jure Leskovec: Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle

5:00 Wine and cheese

Tuesday 15th September

Morning Session

9:30-10:00 Tea/coffee
10:00 - 11:00 Ziv Bar-Joseph: Cross species analysis of functional genomics data
11:00 - 11:30 break/coffee
11:30-12:30 Chris Holmes: Some issues in robust Bayesian inference for functional genomics

12:30-2:30 lunch

Afternoon Session
2:30-3:30 John Winn: Modelling complex disease phenotype data with Infer.NET
3:30 - 4:00 break/tea
4:00- 5:00 Ricardo Silva: Ranking Relations Using Analogies

5:00 Wine and cheese

7:00 Workshop Dinner

Wednesday 16th September

Morning Session

9:30-10:00 Tea/coffee
10:00 - 11:00 John Skilling: The Nested Sampling Algorithm
11:00 - 11:30 break/coffee
11:30-12:30 Mark Girolami: Riemann Manifold MCMC for very high dimensional data

12:30-2:30 lunch

Afternoon Session
2:30-3:30 Neil Lawrence: Efficient Multiple Output Convolution Processes for Multiple Task Learning
3:30 - 4:00 break/tea
4:00- 5:00 Guido Sanguinetti: Approximate inference for Markov Jump Processes with applications in systems and developmental biology

5:00 Wine and cheese

Thursday 17th September

Morning Session

9:30-10:00 Tea/coffee
10:00 - 11:00 Eric Schadt: Networks as the Sensors and Drivers of Disease
11:00 - 11:30 break/coffee
11:30-12:30 Dirk Husmeier: Learning gene regulatory networks from gene expression time series with non-linear/non-stationary dynamic Bayesian networks

12:30-2:30 lunch

Afternoon Session
2:30-3:30 Eric Xing: Time (and Space)-Varying Networks: Reverse engineering rewiring genetic interactions
3:30 Tea

Workshop ends