DMML Closing Workshop

Data Mining and Machine Learning

Closing Workshop
May 17-18, 2004

General Information

The Closing Workshop for the SAMSI Program on Data Mining and Machine Learning (DMML) will be held on Monday-Tuesday, May 17-18, at the Radisson Research Triangle Park Hotel in Research Triangle Park, NC.

The goals of the Closing Workshop are to:

Present results, a research agenda and problem lists generated by the DMML program to the statistical sciences, applied mathematics and computer science communities.
Formulate follow-on activities for the program, and engage attendees who did not participate deeply in the program in these activities.

The workshop will be held at the Radisson Research Triangle Park Hotel in Research Triangle Park.

Registration

Registration information, including requests for financial support, should be submitted as soon as possible. The registration deadline is May 7, 2004.

Please make reservations at the Radisson as soon as possible. If you have a change in plans, individual room reservations must be cancelled 72 hours prior to arrival. Check-in is at 3:00 PM; check-out is 12:00 noon.

Tentative Program

Monday, May 17

Radisson Hotel RTP

Room F-G

9:00 AM	Welcome and Introductions
9:15	Working Group I: Bioinformatics
9:15	Summary Stanley Young, NISS
9:45	Technical Highlight Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, North Carolina State University
10:15	Problem List Young Truong, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:30	Discussion
10:45	Break
11:00	Working Group II: Large n, small p
11:00	Summary Bertrand Clarke, SAMSI
11:30	Technical Highlight Ernest Fokoue, SAMSI
12:00 N	Problem List Feng Liang, Duke University
12:15 PM	Discussion
12:30	Lunch
1:30	Working Group III: Support Vector Machines
1:30	Summary Marc Genton, North Carolina State University
2:00	Technical Highlight Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University
2:30	Problem List Ernest Fokoue, SAMSI
2:45	Discussion
3:00	Break
3:30	Working Group IV: Theory and Methods
3:30	Summary David Banks, Duke University and SAMSI
4:00	Technical Highlight Merlise Clyde, Duke University
4:30	Problem List Xiaodong Lin, SAMSI and NISS
4:45	Discussion
5:00	“Open Mike” Discussion
6:30	Reception

Tuesday, May 18

Radisson Hotel RTP

Room F-G

9:00 AM	Panel Discussion I Working Group Leaders
10:00	Break
10:15	Graduate Student Presentations - Atina Brooks, North Carolina State University - Jen-hwa Chu, Duke University - Leanna House, Duke University - Fei Liu, Duke University - Peng Liu, North Carolina State University
11:30	Panel Discussion II Selected “Outsiders”
12:30 PM	Lunch
1:30	Birds of a Feather Sessions (Optional)
3:00	Adjourn

Scientific Committee

David Banks (Duke; Co-Chair), Mary Ellen Bock (Purdue), Jerome Friedman (Stanford), Alan F. Karr (NISS; Chair), David Madigan (Rutgers), William DuMouchel (AT&T), Warren Sarle (SAS Institute)

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