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2008-09 Program on Sequential Monte Carlo Methods

SMC Mid-Program Workshop

February 19-20, 2009

General Information
Application
Schedule

General Information

This workshop will focus on the progress that has been made in the program research working groups on Tracking, Continuous Time Modeling, Big Data and Distributed Computing, and Model Assessment. Non-program participants are also welcome, to participate in the discussion of these research developments.

The workshop will consist of talks, discussions, posters, and subgroup working sessions.

Application

ON-LINE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

If you are interested in attending this workshop, please send a message to [email protected] to inquire about availability.

Please make reservations at the Radisson RTP as soon as possible. The SAMSI room block and rate ($109) is effective until February 11, 2009. After this date, there is no guarantee a room will be available. 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 Schedule

Thursday, February 19, 2009

8:15-8:45	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00	Welcome
9:00-9:30	Hedibert Lopes, University of Chicago Particle Learning: a semester later
9:30-10:00	Paul Fearnhead, Lancaster University A Particle Smoother with Linear Computational Cost
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-10:45	Francois Septier, Signal Processing Laboratory, Cambridge University Multi-target Tracking using MCMC-Based Particle Algorithm
10:45-11:15	Nathan Green, Defence Science and Technology Laboratories (WebEx)
11:15-11:45	Mark Briers, QinetiQ (WebEx) An Application of ABC Using SMC to Multiple Source Term Estimation
11:45-12:15	Daniel Clark, Heriot-Watt University (WebEx) Joint Target-Detection and Tracking Smoothers
12:15-2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:30	Chunlin Ji, Duke University Dynamic Spatial Mixture Modelling and its Application in Cell Tracking
2:30-3:00	Viktor Rozjic, University of Southern California Performance of the Resample-move Algorithm on the Simulated Multi-target Tracking Dataset
3:00-3:30	Gentry White, North Carolina State University A Kalman Filter Based Emulator for Source Term Estimation
3:30-4:00	Ernest Fokoue, Kettering University Variational Mean Field Approach to Efficient Multitarget Tracking
4:00-4:30	David Dunson, Duke University and Sourish Das, Duke University Bayesian Distribution Regression via Augmented Particle Filtering
4:30-4:45	Break and Poster Set-up
4:45-5:00	Poster Advertisements (2 minute ads each)
5:00-7:00	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.

Friday, February 20, 2009

8:30-9:00	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:30	Petar Djuric, SUNY at Stony Brook Tracking Multiple Targets with Multiple Particle Filters
9:30-10:00	Namrata Vaswani, Iowa State University PF-EIS and PF-MT: Particle Filtering (PF) with Efficient Importance Sampling (EIS) and with Mode Tracking (MT) and Applications in Deformable Contour Tracking
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15-10:45	Carlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Model Assessment and Adaptive Design
10:45-11:15	Matt Taddy, University of Chicago Particle Learning for General Mixtures
11:15-11:45	Ioanna Manolopoulou, SAMSI Targeted Sequential Resampling from Large Data Sets in Mixture Modeling
11:45-12:15	Mark Coates, McGill University Weak Lp Bounds on the Performance of the Leader Node Particle Filter
12:15-2:00	Lunch
2:00-5:00	Discussion Session for Working Groups

Local Information (Hotels, etc.)

Please send questions to [email protected]

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