Programme
Tutorials:
- Wesley Henderson (University of Mississippi, USA): Parallel Computing Approaches for Bayesian Model Comparison
- Dante Kalise (Imperial College London, UK): Mean Field Games
- Kevin Knuth (University at Albany, USA): Foundations of MaxEnt
- Greg Pavliotis (Imperial College London, UK): MaxEnt Methods for Fokker-Planck Equations
- Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh, UK): Introduction to Bayesian Inverse Problems
Invited Speakers:
- Masoumeh Dashti (University of Sussex, UK): To be confirmed
- Tony Kennedy (University of Edinburgh, UK): Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on Symmetric Spaces
- Robert Niven (University of New South Wales, AUS): Maximum Entropy Analysis of Flow Systems and Flow Networks
- Chris Oates (Newcastle University, UK): Bayesian Probabilistic Numerical Methods
- John Skilling (Maximum Entropy Data Consultants Ltd, UK): The Quantum Connection
- Udo von Toussaint (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, DE): Bayesian Global Optimization Based on Surrogate Models
- Sir Alan Wilson (The Alan Turing Institute, UK): Urban Modelling and MaxEnt Principles
Schedule:
| Monday 2nd July | Authors (speaker in bold) | ||
| 09:00-10:20 | Registration & coffee | ||
| 10:20-10:30 | Welcome | Mark Girolami | |
| 10:30-11:50 | Tutorial | Dante Kalise | Mean Field Games |
| 11:50-12:20 | Oral Session | Pascal Heim, Michael Rumetshofer, Sascha Ranftl, Bernhard Thaler, Wolfgang E. Ernst, Markus Koch and Wolfgang von der Linden | Bayesian Analysis of Femtosecond Pump-Probe Photoelectron-Photoion Coincidence Spectra | 12:20-13:50 | Lunch |
| 13:50 - 14:20 | Oral Session | Seppo Virtanen | Precision-Recall Balanced Topic Modelling |
| 14:25 - 14:50 | Oral Session | Shota Gugushvili, Frank van der Meulen, Moritz Schauer and Peter Spreij | Nonparametric Bayesian volatility learning under microstructure noise |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | Oral Session | Boris Belousov and Jan Peters | Entropic regularization of Markov decision processes |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:30 - 16:10 | Invited Talk | Masoumeh Dashti | Bayesian Inverse Problems | 16:10 - 17:00 | Invited Talk | Sir Alan Wilson | Urban Modelling and MaxEnt Principles |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Wine Reception | ||
| Tuesday 3rd July | Authors (speaker in bold) | ||
| 10:00 - 11:20 | Tutorial | Kevin Knuth | Foundations |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Invited Talk | John Skilling | The Quantum Connection |
| 12:20 - 13:20 | Lunch | ||
| 13:20 - 13:50 | Oral Session | Roland Preuss, Rodrigo Parra and Udo Toussaint | Bayesian determination of parameters for plasma-wall interactions | 13:50 - 14:20 | Oral Session | Ali Mohammad Djafari | A comparison between two variational Bayesian computation using Kullback-Leibler | 14:20 - 14:50 | Oral Session | Vidhi R Lalchand and Anita C Faul | A Progressive Framework for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Oral Session | Louis Ellam, Mark Girolami, Grigorios Pavliotis and Alan Wilson | The Thermodynamics of Urban and Regional Structure |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Oral Session | Anton Mallasto and Aasa Feragen | Optimal Transport Distance between Wrapped Gaussian Distributions |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Oral Session | Kevin Knuth | Influence Theory: Inference and Relativistic Quantum Mechanics |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Poster Session | ||
| Wednesday 4th July | Authors (speaker in bold) | ||
| 10:00 - 11:20 | Tutorial | Wesley Henderson | Parallel Computing |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Invited Talk | Robert Niven | Maxent for flow networks |
| 12:20 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Oral Session | Robert Niven, Markus Abel, Hemanshu Pota, Roger Guimera and Steven Waldrip | Maximum Entropy Analysis of Electrical Networks |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Oral Session | Geert Verdoolaege | Probabilistic characterization and classification of edge-localized mode dynamics in the JET tokamak |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 14:50- 15:20 | Oral Session | Augustin Marignier, Ana Mg Ferreira, Andrea Berbellini, Gina Geffers and Januka Attanayake | Non-linear Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity Data for Shear Wave Speed in the Earth's Crust |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Oral Session | Keith Earle and Matthew Wright | Brownian Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Social Event | ||
| 19:00 - Late | Conference Dinner | Location TBA | |
| Thursday 5th July | Authors (speaker in bold) | ||
| 10:00 - 11:20 | Tutorial | Greg Pavliotis | MaxEnt methods for Fokker-Planck equations |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Invited Talk | Chris Oates | Probabilistic Numerics |
| 12:20 - 13:20 | Lunch | ||
| 13:20 - 13:45 | Oral Session | Guillaume Revillon, Ali Mohammad Djafari and Cyrille Enderli | Radar Emitters Clustering With Outliers and Missing Data |
| 13:45 - 14:10 | Oral Session | Dirk Nille and Udo von Toussaint | Inference of 2D Surface Heat Flux Densities from Infrared Thermography |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Oral Session | Junyang Wang, Jon Cockayne and Chris Oates | On the Bayesian Solution of Differential Equations |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Oral Session | David John, Michael Schick and Vincent Heuveline | Learning model discrepancy of an electric motor with Bayesian inference |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:20 - 15:45 | Oral Session | Ning Xiang, Cameron Fackler and Kirill Horoshenkov | Parametric model-based Bayesian inference for layered porous material analysis |
| 15:45 - 16:10 | Oral Session | Alexander Terenin and Daniel Thorngren | A Piecewise Deterministic Markov Process via (r,Θ) swaps in hyperspherical coordinates |
| 16:10 - 16:50 | Invited Talk | Udo von Toussaint | Bayesian Optimization based on surrogate models |
| Friday 6th July | Authors (speaker in bold) | ||
| 9:00 - 10:20 | Tutorial | Aretha Teckentrup | Bayesian inverse problems |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Invited Talk | Tony Kennedy | Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on symmetric spaces |
| 11:20 | Closing Remarks | ||
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