

Information Geometry and its Applications III
Abstracts of the Talks
Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN, Japan)
Monday, August 02, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Information geometry derived from divergence functions
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Pierre-Yves Bourguignon (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Modeling dependencies between positions in protein-DNA binding motifs
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Dorje Brody (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Monday, August 02, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Information, interest rates, and geometry
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Frank Critchley (The Open University, United Kingdom)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Computational information geometry: model sensitivity and approximate cuts
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Imre Csiszár (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Wednesday, August 04, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Scientific legacy of Igor Vajda
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Philip Dawid (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) (joint work with Matthew Parry and Steffen Lauritzen)
Monday, August 02, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Local proper scoring rules
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Christopher Dodson (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
An inhomogeneous stochastic rate process for evolution from states in an information geometric neighbourhood of uniform fitness
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Shinto Eguchi (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
Monday, August 02, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
U-entropy and maximum entropy model
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Christopher A. Fuchs (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada)
Rewriting quantum state space as a (nice) statistical manifold
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Akio Fujiwara (Osaka University, Japan)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Geometry of quantum channel manifolds
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Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University, Japan)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Dual connection in mirror symmetry
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Kenji Fukumizu (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Distances and dependence measures with reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
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Shigeru Furuichi (Nihon University, Japan)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
On trace inequalities related to skew informations and generalized relative entropies
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Paolo Gibilisco (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
The correspondence and its applications in quantum information theory
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Frank Hansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Monday, August 02, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Measures of quantum information
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Peter Harremoës (Copenhagen Business College, Denmark)
Tuesday, August 03, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Minimum description length for exponential families
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Fumio Hiai (Tohoku University, Japan)
Wednesday, August 04, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Riemannian metrics on positive definite matrices related to means
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Shiro Ikeda (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
Tuesday, August 03, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Channel capacity problem and predictive distribution
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Oliver Johnson (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Information measures on discrete spaces
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Jürgen Jost (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Tuesday, August 03, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Mathematical aspects of information geometry
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Peter Jupp (University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom)
Wednesday, August 04, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
General versions of the information inequalities of van Trees and of Stam
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Shunlong Luo (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Geometry of correlations in quantum states
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Christian Léonard (Université Paris Ouest, France)
Monday, August 02, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
From the Schrödinger problem to the Monge-Kantorovich problem. An entropic approach to optimal transport.
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Paul Marriott (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Computational information geometry: geometry of model choice
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Hiroshi Matsuzoe (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Statistical manifolds admitting torsion and geometry of affine distributions
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Noburu Murata (Waseda University, Japan)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
A geometrical extension of the Bradley-Terry model
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Hiroshi Nagaoka (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Tuesday, August 03, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Information geometry of quantum relative entropy and some extension
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Hiroyuki Nakahara (RIKEN, Japan)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Neural coding and information geometry
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Jan Naudts (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
The generalized exponential family in statistical physics: a framework for microcanonical phase transitions
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Richard Nock (Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, France)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
The information geometry of boosting algorithms
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Atsumi Ohara (Osaka University, Japan)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Computation, complexity and curvature in information geometry
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Jan Peters (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Information geometry in reinforcement learning: from natural policy gradients to relative entropy policy search
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Dénes Petz (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Wednesday, August 04, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Introduction to quantum Fisher information
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Narit Pidokrajt (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Black hole information geometry and critical phenomena
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Giovanni Pistone (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Finite generation of cumulants
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Johannes Rauh (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Maximizing the Kullback-Leibler distance
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Soo-Jong Rey (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Black holes and string theory as information geometry
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Jim Smith (The University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
The algebra of causal trees and chain event graphs
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Raymond Streater (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Tuesday, August 03, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Relation between Jaynes estimation and Fisher information
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Arleta Szkoła (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Chernoff type distances on quantum state spaces
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Flemming Topsøe (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Tuesday, August 03, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Cognition and games - an approach to information
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Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Brazil, and Santa Fe Institute, USA)
Monday, August 02, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Nonadditive and nonextensive statistical mechanics - some mathematical aspects
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Armin Uhlmann (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Tuesday, August 03, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Bures geometry and related concepts
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Keiko Uohashi (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Conformally flat statistical submanifolds and level surfaces
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Christophe Vignat (Université d'Orsay, France)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Orthogonal polynomials and geometry of the quantum harmonic oscillator on constant curvature surfaces
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Stephan Weis (Universität Erlangen, Germany)
Friday, August 06, 2010, room Hörsaal 1
Entropy distance: new quantum phenomena
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Jun Zhang (University of Michigan/AFOSR, USA)
Thursday, August 05, 2010, room Hörsaal 2
Divergence functions and their relation to metrical, equiaffine and symplectic structures on the manifold
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Date and Location
August 02 - 06, 2010
University of Leipzig
Augustusplatz
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Scientific Organizers
Nihat AyMax Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Information Theory of Cognitive Systems Group
Germany
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Paolo Gibilisco
Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Facoltà di Economia
Italy
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František Matúš
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Institute of Information Theory and Automation
Czech Republic
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Scientific Committee
Shun-ichi Amari
RIKEN
Brain Science Institute, Mathematical Neuroscience Laboratory
Japan
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Imre Csiszár
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Hungary
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Dénes Petz
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Department for Mathematical Analysis
Hungary
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Giovanni Pistone
Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri
Italy
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Antje Vandenberg
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
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