MaxEnt 2006 Program Information [Overviw in pdf] [Overviw in jpg] [Welcome reception] [Sat 8] [Sun 9] [Mon10] [Tue 11] [Conference dinner] [Wed 12] [Thu 13] Saturday July 8, 2006: Welcome reception (Cité Internationale de Paris) 14:00 16:00 Registration 16:00 18h00 Welcome reception Sunday July 9, 2006, Tutorial day (Cité Internationale de Paris) 09h00 10h00 Registration and Coffee 10h00 11h00 Tutorial 1: Ali Mohammad-Djafari: Maximum Entropy and Bayesian inference: Where do we stand and where do we go ? Slides, Paper under review 11h00 12h00 Tutorial 2: Bruno Lecoutre: AND IF YOU WERE A BAYESIAN WITHOUT KNOWING IT ? Slides, Paper under review 12h00 14h00 Lunch 14h00 15h00 Tutorial 3: Andrew Pohorille: EXPLORING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SAMPLING PROBLEMS IN BAYESIAN INFERENCE AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS Slides 15h00 16h00 Tutorial 4: Carlton Caves: INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM COMPUTATION Slides 16h00 16h15 Break 16h15 17h00 Tutorial 5: A. Caticha: FROM OBJECTIVE AMPLITUDES TO BAYESIAN PROBABILITIES Slides 17h00 17h45 Tutorial 6: Mihai Datcu: Information theory based inference in the Bayesian context: applications for semantic image coding Slides 18h00 22h00 Footbal World cup: Photos of Charletti Stadium Monday July 10, 2006: (CNRS,  Paris) 8h00 8h30 Registration 8h30 9h00 Opening and official talks Oral session 1: Information, Probability and Quantum systems. (Chair: C. Caves) 09h00 09h45 Invited talk 1: A. Pohorille: A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO CALCULATING FREE ENERGIES OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Slides 09h45 10h15 A. Caticha UPDATING PROBABILITIES Slides 10h15 10h45 L.F. Lemmens PROBABILITY ASSIGNMENT IN A QUANTUM STATISTICAL MODEL Slides 10h45 11h15 Break Oral session 2: Bayesian Probability and Quantum systems. (Chair: A. Caticha) 11h15 12h00 Invited Talk 2: C. Caves Why We Should Think of Quantum Probabilities as Bayesian Probabilities Slides 12h00 12h30 A. Vourdas : Phase space methods in continuous tensor products of Hilbert spaces Slides 12h30 13h00 One minute Poster Session 1 presentation (Chair: U.V. Toussaint) 13h00 14h00 Lunch 14h00 15h00 Poster session 1: (Chair: U.V. Toussaint) Papers number: 003, 004, 042, 046, 050, 065, 079, 095, 096 and 019, 041, 053, 090 003_Bityukov, 004_Barkova, 042_Lin, 046_Gadjiev, 050_Bastami, 065_Yanez, 079_Amiri-Sazi, 095_Olmos, 096_Lopez-Rosa, 019_Mohtashami, 041_Finn, 053_Yari, 090_Pappalardo, Oral session 3: Source Separation (Chair: Ch. Jutten) 15h00 15h30 C.F. Caiafa : A MINIMAX ENTROPY METHOD FOR BLIND SEPARATION OF DEPENDENT COMPONENTS IN ASTROPHYSICAL IMAGES" Slides 15h30 16h00 Y. Nishimori : RIEMANNIAN OPTIMIZATION METHOD ON THE GENERALIZED FLAG MANIFOLD FOR COMPLEX AND SUBSPACE ICA Slides 16h00 16h30 F. Vrins : Electrode selection for non-invasive Fetal Electrocardiogram Extraction using Mutual Information Criteria Slides 16h30 17h00 Break Oral session 4: Source Separation (Chair: K. Knuth) 17h00 17h30 Sh. Hosseini: Maximum likelihood separation of spatially auto-correlated images using a Markov model Slides 17h30 18h00 S. Moussaoui Mars Hyperspectral Data Processing using ICA and Bayesian Positive Source Separation Slides 18h00 18h30 M. Babaie-zadeh A fast method for sparse component analysis based on iterative detection-projection Slides Tuesday July 11, 2006: (CNRS,  Paris) Oral session 5: Information Geometry and Bayesian nets. (Chair: H. Snoussi) 8h30 9h15 Invited talk 3: S. Fiori: EXTRINSIC GEOMETRICAL METHODS FOR NEURAL BLIND DECONVOLUTION Slides 9h15 9h45 C. Rodriguez : Data, Virtual Data, and Anti-Data Slides 9h45 10h15 A. Ramer : GraphMaxEnt Slides 10h15 10h45 Break Oral session 6: Information Geometry and Bayesian nets. (Chair: C. Rodriguez) 10h45 11h15 N. Caticha : The evolution of learning systems: to Bayes or not to be Slides 11h15 11h45 D.E. Holmes : Determining Missing Constraint Values in Bayesian Networks with Maximum Entropy: A First Step Towards a Generalized Bayesian Network Slides 11h45 12h15 E. Bjornemo : Sensor network node scheduling for estimation of a continuous field Slides 12h30 13h00 One minute Poster Session 2 presentation (Chair: R. Fischer) 13h00 14h00 Lunch 14h00 15h00 Poster session 2: (Chair: R. Fischer) Papers number: 002, 007, 011, 016, 022, 025, 026, 031, 034, 043, 044, 045, 047, 061, 063, 073, 077, 078, 080, 084, 088 and 91 002_Borges, 007_Dobrzynski, 011_Barbaresco, 016_Center, 022_Bercher, 025_Dautremer, 026_Niven, 031_Alamino, 034_Neisy, 043_Cafaro, 044_Dodt, 045_Dreier, 047_Krajsek, 061_Mohammad-Djafari, 063_Bjornemo, 073_Sahmoodi, 077_Costache, 078_Esmer, 080_Kiss, 084_Roy , 084_Karimi . 091_Snoussi . Oral session 7: Inverse problems. (Chair: R. Preuss) 15h00 15h30 K.M. Hanson : PROBING THE COVARIANCE MATRIX Slides 15h30 16h00 R. Fischer : INTEGRATED DATA ANALYSIS: NON-PARAMETRIC PROFILE GRADIENT ESTIMATION Slides 16h00 16h30 U.V. Toussaint : PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF ELLIPSOMETRY MEASUREMENTS Slides 16h30 17h00 Break Oral session 8: Inverse problems. (Chair: K. Hanson) 17h00 17h30 R. Preuss BAYESIAN ANALYSIS ON PLASMA CONFINEMENT DATA BASES (NOT PRESENT) 17h30 18h00 V. Mazet, D. Brie and J. Idier : Decomposition of a chemical spectrum using a marked point process and a constant dimension model Slides 19h30 23h30 Conference Dinner Wednesday July 12, 2006: (CNRS,  Paris) Oral session 9: Bayesian inference and Image processing. (Chair: J. Center) 8h30 9h15 Invited talk 4: Z. Ghahramani A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM SETS OF ITEMS Slides 9h15 9h45 K. Knuth CLEARING UP THE MYSTERIES: COMPUTING ON HYPOTHESIS SPACES Slides 9h45 10h15 J. Skilling: CALIBRATION and INTERPOLATION Slides 10h15 10h45 Break Oral session 10: Bayesian inference and Image processing. (Chair: J. Skilling) 10h45 11h15 W. Pieczynski : Unsupervised segmentation of hidden semi-Markov non stationary chains Slides 11h15 11h45 G. Deylon : Minimal stochastic complexity image partionning with non parametric statistical model Slides 11h45 12h15 M. Soccorsi : Space-Variant Model Fitting and Selection for Image Denoising and Information Extraction Slides 12h15 13h00 One minute Poster Session 3 presentation (Chair: Z. Gharamani) 13h00 14h00 Lunch 14h00 15h00 Poster session 3: (Chair: Z. Gharamani) Papers number: 001, 005, 008, 013, 014, 020, 028, 030, 040, 054, 062, 069, 070, 071, 086 and 097 001_Kyo, 005_Khireddine, 008_Zarpak, 013_Gueguen, 014_Chaabouni, 020_Jalobeanu, 028_Roemer, 030_Goggens, 040_Desbouvries, 054_Amintoosi, 062_Aronsson, 069_Aminghafari, 070_Mehmood, 071_Verdoolaege, 086_Abrishami, 097_Mohammadpour 15h00 15h30 Group Photo (Chair: R. Bontekoe) 15h30 16h30 Committee meeting (Chair: K. Knuth) Free time Thursday July 13, 2006: (CNRS,  Paris) Oral session 11: Entropy and Data Processing (Chair: M. Grendar) 8h45 9h15 V. Girardin : ENTROPY AND SEMI-MARKOV PROCESSES Slides 9h15 9h45 J.F. Bercher : An amended MaxEnt formulation for deriving Tsallis factors, and associated issues Slides 9h45 10h15 E.V. Vakarin : Maximum entropy approach to characterization of random media Slides 10h15 10h45 Break Oral session 12: Entropy and Data Processing (Chair: V. Girardin) 10h45 11h15 A. Zarzo : THE MINIMUM CROSS-ENTROPY METHOD: A GENERAL ALGORITHM FOR ONE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS Slides 11h15 11h45 A. Solana-Ortega : ENTROPIC INFERENCE FOR ASSIGNING PROBABILITIES: SOME DIFFICULTIES IN AXIOMATICS AND APPLICATIONS Slides 11h45 12h15 M. Grendar : EMPIRICAL MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS Slides 12h15 12h45 P.L.N Inverardi : A New Bound for Discrete Distributions based on Maximum Entropy Slides 13h00 14h00 Lunch Oral session 13: Entropy, Bayes and Applications. (Chair: E. Barrat) 14h00 14h30 J.M. Stern : The Full Bayesian Significance Test for Separate Hypotheses Slides 14h30 15h00 J. Welch : Comparing Class Scores in GCSE Modular Science (NOT PRESENTED) 15h00 15h30 M. Johansson : Competitive bidding in a certain class of auctions Slides 15h30 16h00 Break Oral session 14: Entropy, Bayes and Applications. (Chair: J.M. Stern) 16h00 16h30 E. Barat : NONPARAMETRIC BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF X/$\gamma$-RAY SPECTRA USING A HIERARCHICAL POLYA TREE -- DIRICHLET MIXTURE MODEL Slides 16h30 17h00 F. Desbouvries : ENTROPY COMPUTATION IN PARTIALLY OBSERVED MARKOV CHAINS Slides 17h00 17h30 Tj. R. Bontekoe : Scheduling of schools Slides 17h30 18h30 Ending session (Chair: Local organizers)