2012-13: MD: Transition Workshop: May 20-22, 2013
Workshop Information
May 20, 2013 - 8:30am - May 22, 2013 - 5:00pm
Registration for this workshop is currently closed.
This workshop was held at the Radisson Hotel, RTP (Radisson RTP).
The transition workshop had three main goals:
1) Reunite the participants from all active working groups in the SAMSI Massive Datasets Program.
2) Report and review the progress of the working groups.
3) Plan for how to continue the research of the working groups beyond the SAMSI Massive Datasets Program.
The workshop consisted of talks from each working group, targeted at a broad audience. There was also time for get-togethers among participants of each working group, to prepare their final report and to plan future research activities.
Final Schedule (pdf)
Schedule
Monday, May 20, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H
| 8:15-8:45 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| Environment & Climate | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Dorit Hammerling, SAMSI A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Climate Change Detection and Attribution |
| 9:30-10:00 | Matthias Katzfuss, Heidelberg, Germany Statistical Inference for Massive Distributed Spatial Data Using Low-Rank Models |
| 10:00-10:30 | Peter Thorne, CICS-NC The International Surface Temperature Initiative: Opportunities to engage in creating land surface air temperature datasets for the 21st Century |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| Online Streaming & Sketching | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Michael Mahoney, Stanford Revisiting the Nystrom Method for Improved Large-Scale Machine Learning |
| 11:30-12:00 | David Lawlor, SAMSI Regression in High Dimensions via Geometric Multi-Resolution Analysis |
| 12:00-12:30 | Garvesh Raskutti, SAMSI Leverage-Score Sampling for Large-Scale Linear Regression |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| High Energy Physics | |
| 2:00-2:15 | Steffen Bass, Duke Do You Speak Klingon? - The Challenges of Creating a Successful Collaboration Between Physicists and Statisticians |
| 2:15-2:45 | Peter Marcy, Wyoming Towards Calibration in High-Energy Physical Models Using ATLAS Histogram Data |
| 2:45-3:15 | Chris Coleman-Smith, Duke A Physicists Take on the Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments |
| 3:15-3:30 | Karen Kafadar, Indiana Future Directions for Statistics in High-Energy Physics |
| 3:30-5:30 | Meeting of Individual WGs (discuss transition and prepare final report) |
| 5:30 | Poster Session and Reception SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards and tape. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. The boards can accommodate up to 16 pages of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches. |
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H
| 8:30-9:00 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| Inference | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Xia Wang, Cincinnati Bayesian Large-Scale Multiple Testing for Time Series Data |
| 9:30-10:00 | Tao Yu, National University of Singapore Local Polynomial Estimation of the Semi-Nonparametric Models: Joint Asymptotic Studies |
| 10:00-10:30 | Yuefeng Liu, UNC Large-Margin Classifier Selection via Decision Boundary Stability |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| Datamining & Clustering | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Ralph Abbey, NCSU Stochastic Data Clustering |
| 11:30-12:00 | Shaina Race, NCSU Iterative Consensus Clustering |
| 12:00-2:00 | Lunch |
| Astrostatistics | |
| 2:00-2:30 | Tamas Budavari, Johns Hopkins Big-Data Inference on GPUs |
| 2:30-3:00 | Robert Wolpert, Duke LARK Models for Light Curves |
| 3:00-3:30 | Mary Beth Broadbent, Duke Levy Adaptive Regression Kernels with Applications for Gamma-Ray Burst Lightcurves |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| Discovery & Classification in Synoptic Surveys | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Fabrizia Guglielmetti, Max Planck Institut, Germany Challenges and Possible Solutions in Image Analysis |
| 4:30-5:00 | G. Jogesh Babu, Penn State Exploratory Analysis of Light Curves |
| 5:00 | Meeting of individual WGs (discuss transition and prepare final report) |
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H
| 8:30-9:00 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| Multiscale Modeling | |
| 9:00-9:30 | David Dunson, Duke Multiresolution Dictionary Learning for Conditional Distributions |
| 9:30-10:00 | Mauro Maggioni, Duke Multiscale Estimation of Probability Measures in High Dimensions |
| 10:00-10:30 | Marco Ferreira, Missouri Dynamic Multiscale Spatiotemporal Models for Poisson Data |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| Imaging | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Ashish Mahabal, Caltech, and Lingsong Zhang, Purdue Analyzing Light Curves of Astronomical Sources |
| 11:30-12:00 | Weihong Guo, Case Western, and Dan Yang, SAMSI Compressive Inference |
| 12:00-12:30 | Dani Ushizima, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Image Analysis and Scientific Computing |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-2:30 | Ilse Ipsen, SAMSI and NCSU, and Richard Smith, SAMSI Where do we go from here? |
| 2:30-5:00 | Meeting of Individual WGs (discuss transition and prepare final report) |
| 5:00 | Goodbye Party |