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Working Group on Model-Based Clustering Summer Session: July 20-26, 2008

Monday-Friday (five days) from 9:00am to noon, in room C-301 Padelford Hall, University of Washington Campus. Social events on the Sunday before and the Saturday after.

Working Group: Monday-Friday, July 20-26, 2008
Day (Chair/Organizer) Time Speaker Topic
Sunday (Adrian Raftery) 5:00-8:00pm Working Group BBQ
Monday (Adrian Raftery) 9:00-10:20 Paul McNicholas, University of Guelph Model-Based Clustering of Longitudinal Data
10:40-12:00 Avner Bar-Hen, Universite de Paris 5 Spatial cluster detection using the number of connected components of a graph
(Matthew Stephens) 2:30-3:30, Kane Hall 019 Qunhua Li, University of Washington PhD final exam: Protein identification via model-based clustering
Tuesday (Chris Fraley) 9:00-10:20 Claire Gormley, University College Dublin Exploring clustering structure using covariates
10:40-10:55 Brendan Murphy, University College Dublin Variable selection in model-based clustering and classification
11:00-11:15 Radu Horaud, INRIA Rhone-Alpes Robust Shape and Graph Matching using Laplacian Embedding and EM
11:20-11:35 Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University Generating Gaussian mixtures with specified overlap
11:40-11:55 Florence Forbes, INRIA Rhone-Alpes Fully Bayesian model for cooperative clustering
(Maria Tebb) 12:30 Working Group Lunch, Araya's Place, 1121 NE 45th St
Wednesday (Brendan Murphy) 9:00-10:20 Christian Hennig, University College London How to join normal mixture components?
10:40-10:55 Alejandro Murua, Universite de Montreal Modeling and Clustering of replicated time-course evolution of gene expression profiles
11:00-11:15 Deirdre Toher, Trinity College Dublin Applying semi-supervised learning to Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis.
11:20-11:35 Chris Fraley, University of Washington BMA Forecasting with Missing and Exhangeable Ensemble Members
11:40-11:55 Thordis Linda Thorarinsdottir, University of Washington Probabilistic forecasting using truncated normal regression over ensembles of forecasts
Thursday (Elena Erosheva) 9:00-10:20 Adrian Raftery, University of Washington Determining the Number of Clusters and the Number of Mixture Components Using BIC and ICL
10:40-10:55 Jean-Patrick Baudry, Universite de Paris-Sud Unsupervised Clustering through Minimization of a Slope Heuristic
11:00-11:15 Marc Scott, New York University Models for Categorical Sequences: Latent Affinities and Covariate Effects
11:20-11:35 Leontine Alkema, University of Washington Probabilistic Projection of the Total Fertility Rate
11:40-11:55 Jennifer Chunn, University of Washington Projecting Life Expectancy and its Uncertainty with a Bayesian Hierarchical Model
(Maria Tebb) 6:30pm Working Group Dinner, Marrakesh, 2334 2nd Ave
Friday (Christian Hennig) 9:00-10:20 Elena Erosheva, University of Washington Re-conceptualizing the Classification of PNAS articles using latent pattern models
10:40-12:00 Le Bao, University of Washington Incremental Mixture Importance Sampling
Saturday (Chris Fraley) 8:00am-all day Working Group Hike. Meet 8am at U Village Starbucks

Last updated July 11, 2008