Geometric Aspects of Conditional Independence and Information
Final program
All lectures will be held in Leibniz-Hörsaal (G 10),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).
| Thursday, March 13, 2008 | ||
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| 08:50 - 09:20 | Breakfast at the Institute | |
| 09:20 - 09:30 | Welcome address | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Bernd Sturmfels (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Marginal Likelihood Integrals for Mixtures of Independence Models (see abstract) | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Steffen Lauritzen (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Exponential families with semigroup-valued sufficient statistics (see abstract) | |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Thomas Richardson (University of Washington, USA) Factorization criteria for Markov models induced by directed acyclic graphs via marginalization (see abstract) | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Milan Studený (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic) Some remarks on algebraic approach to learning Bayesian nets (see abstract) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Nihat Ay (MPI MiS Leipzig, Germany) A Refinement of the Common Cause Principle (see abstract) | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Andreas Winter (University of Bristol, United Kingdom) Counterexamples to additivity of minimum output p-Renyi entropies of channels, for parameter p>2, p>1 and p near 0 (see abstract) | |
| 19:00 | Dinner (à la carte and on the basis of individual payment) | |
| Friday, March 14, 2008 | ||
| 08:15 - 08:45 | Breakfast at the Institute | |
| 08:45 - 09:45 | A. Philip Dawid (University College London, United Kingdom) Decision Geometry (see abstract) | |
| 09:45 - 10:45 | Imre Csiszár (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) (joint work with František Matúš ) On minimization of entropy functionals under moment constraints (see abstract) | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Jason Morton (Stanford University, USA) Relations among conditional probabilities (see abstract) | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Carles Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Optimizing secret sharing schemes for general access structure (see abstract) | |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | František Matúš (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic) Entropy functions, information inequalities and polymatroids (see abstract) | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Coffee | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Dénes Petz (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) From f-divergence to quantum quasi-entropy (see abstract) | |
Date and Location
March 13 - 14, 2008
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
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Scientific Organizers
Nihat AyMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Information Theory of Cognitive Systems Group
Leipzig
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František Matúš
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Institute of Information Theory and AutomationPrague
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Administrative Contact
Antje VandenbergMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
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