Tues 6 April

11:00

Registration opens (coffee available)

12:00

Buffet lunch

12:50-13:00

Opening Remarks

13:00-13:10

Frank Critchley - Emerging Geometries for Statistical Science:I. A Very Short Introduction

13:10-14:05

Peter Jupp - A review of geometric statistics

14:05-15:00

Henry Wynn - A review of algebraic statistics

15:00-15:30

tea

15:30-16:15

John Copas - Model uncertainty: minimax confidence limits from models that fit the data

16:15-17:00

Paul Marriott - Computational Information Geometry: Geometry of Model Choice

17:00-17:30

more tea!

17:30-18:00

Giovanni Pistone - Algebra of Reversible Markov Chains

18:00-18:30

Elena Stanghellini - On the identification of discrete graphical models with hidden nodes

18:30-19:45

Poster Reception (beginning with 1-minute summaries)

• John Aston - Geometry of Mutual Information in Three-Way Contingency Tables

• Helene Gehrmann - Topology of Graphs Representing Graphical Gaussian Models with Symmetry Constraints

• Luigi Malago -Towards the Geometry of Stochastic Relaxation

• Hugo Maruri-Aguilar - Holes and Aberration

• Sofia Massa - Towards algebraic combinations of Gaussian graphical models

• Johannes Rauh - Support Sets in Exponential Families and Oriented Matroid Theory

• Eva Riccomagno - Hermite polynomial aliasing in Gaussian quadrature

• Germain Van Bever - Shape Depth

20:00

Dinner

Wed 7 April

09:30-10:15

Piotr Zwiernik - Posets, Mobius functions and tree-cumulants

10:15-11:00

Hélène Massam - The geometry of hierarchical discrete loglinear models

11:00-11:30

coffee

11:30-12:15

Karim Anaya-Izquierdo - Computational Information Geometry: Model Sensitivity and Approximate Cuts

12:15-13:00

Nihat Ay - Information geometry of polytopes - general theory and applications to stochastic matrices

13:00-14:30

lunch

14:30-15:15

Ian Dinwoodie - Syzygies for Metropolis Proposal Kernels

15:15-16:00

Nanny Wermuth - Special features of probability distributions: which are detectable by algebraic methods?

16:00-16:30

tea

16:30-16:40

Frank Critchley - Emerging Geometries for Statistical Science: II. Future Directions

16:40-17:00

Roundtable Discussion

17:00

Workshop closes