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Agenda:

  Monday
9:00 - 9:15 AM:

Opening Remarks -- Bob Ecke,
Center for Nonlinear Studies, Director

9:15 - 9:30 AM: Information Science and Technology at LANL -- Alan Bishop
9:30 - 9:40 AM: Conference Remarks -- Frank Alexander,
Information Science and Technology, Acting Center Leader
9:40 - 9:50 AM: Conference Details -- Adam Shipman,
Center for Nonlinear Studies Conference, Coordinator
9:50 - 10:40 AM: Grace Wahba, Univ. of Wisconsin
The LASSO-Patternsearch Algorithm: Finding "patterns in a haystack"
10:40 - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 - 11:50 AM: Alan Willsky, MIT
Problems and Challenges that Keep Me up at Night (in a Good Way)
11:50 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 2:20 PM: Greg Taylor, UNM
The Long Wavelength Array
2:20 - 3:10 PM: Allan Wilks, AT&T
Waterworks for Stream Processing
3:10 - 3:30 PM: Break
3:30 - 4:20 PM: Stephen Boyd, Stanford
Convex Optimization in Large-Scale and Real-Time Data-Driven Applications
  Tuesday
9:00 - 9:50 AM: Katy Borner, Indiana University
Science Maps in Action
9:50 - 10:40 AM: Doug Nychka, NCAR
Challenges of Regional Climate Modeling and Validation
10:40 - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 - 11:50 AM: Ingo Steinwart, LANL
Machine Learning with Kernel Methods: Some Recent Results and Open Questions
11:50 - 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 - 2:20 PM: Sergei Pond, UCSD
Evolutionary Fingerprinting of Viral Genes
2:20 - 3:10 PM: Stefano Monti, Broad Institute
Cancer Genomics: From Integrative Analysis to Targeted Therapy
3:10 - 3:30 PM: Break
3:30 - 4:20 PM: Diane Lambert, Google
Statistical Analysis at Google Speed and Scale
6:30 - 8:30 PM: Banquet
  Wednesday
9:00 - 9:50 AM: Vijay Nair, University of Michigan
Statistical Inverse Problems in Network Tomography
9:50 - 10:40 AM: Alex Smola, Australia National University
Painless Distribution Representations
10:40 - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 - 11:50 AM: Lawrence Saul, UCSD
Statistics, Geometry, Computation: Searching for Low Dimensional Structure in High Dimensional Data
11:50 - 12:40 PM: Misha Chertkov, LANL
Loop Calculus for Graphical Models
  Day Ends Early
  Thursday
9:00 - 9:50 AM: Bud Mishra, NYU
S*M*A*S*H: Single Molecule Approaches to Sequencing by Hybridization
9:50 - 10:40 AM: Naftali Tishby, Hebrew University
Predictive Information and the Perception-Action-Cycle
10:40 - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 - 11:50 AM: Jose Principe, University of Florida
On-Line Kernel Learning
11:50 - 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 - 1:50 PM: Alan Schaum, NRL
Hyperspectral Image Processing: The Extra-sensory Solution
1:50 - 2:40 PM: Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University
Peta-Scale Data-Intensive Computing
2:40 - 3:00 PM: Break
3:00 - 3:50 PM: Michael Jordan, UC Berkeley
Nonparametric Bayesian Graphical Models
3:50 - 4:40 PM:

Benjamin Van Roy, Stanford University
Decentralization and Message-Passing

5:00 - 6:00 PM: Poster Session
  Friday
9:00 - 9:50 AM: Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University
Next-Generation Implication of Open Access
9:50 - 10:40 AM: Jennie Si, Arizona State University
Cortical Neural Coding for Decision Making and Control Strategy Development
10:40 - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 - 11:50 AM: Peter Quinn, Univesity of Western Australia
The Square Kilometre Array - too much data?

  Conference Closing