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CTW: Statistics, Geometry, and Combinatorics on Stratified Spaces Arising from Biological Problems: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, May 21
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15-8:45am Breakfast
8:45-9:00am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:00-10:00am Peter Kim: Some Recent Experience with Clostridium Difficile
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:00am Hongtu Zhu: Geometry and statistics of data
11:00-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm David Houle: Approaching the evolution of novelty: where biology needs math and statistics
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Marc Arnaudon: Medians, means and minimax centers in Riemannian geometry: existence, uniqueness, robustness and algorithms. Application to signal detection
3:30-5:00pm Discussions
5:00-7:00pm Reception and poster session in MBI Lounge
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, May 22
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Peter Bubenik: Towards statistical topology: homology, persistent homology and persistence landscapes
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:00am Megan Owen: Statistics in Tree Space
11:00-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Robert MacPherson: Survey of stratified spaces
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:30pm John Kent: The geometry and topology of projective shape space
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-3:15pm Satyan Devadoss: Phylogenetic networks and the real moduli space of curves
3:15-3:30pm Break
3:30-5:00pm Discussions
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, May 23
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Steve Marron: Object Oriented Data Analysis
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:00am Ezra Miller: Sticky central limit theorems at singularities
11:00-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Rabi Bhattacharya: Nonparametric Statistics on Manifolds- By Examples and Applications
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Susan Holmes: Bacterial trees in the Human Microbiome
3:30-5:00pm Discussions
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, May 24
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Stephan Huckemann: On Omitting and Hitting Properties for Means on Circles and Shape Spaces
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:00am Armin Schwartzman: Geometry and Statistics in the Eigen-structure of Symmetric (Positive Semi-Definite) Matrices
11:00-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Rudolf Beran: Manifold-valued Tuning Parameters in Regularized Estimation of Multivariate Means
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:30pm Aasa Feragen: The geometry and statistics of geometric trees
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-3:15pm Axel Munk: The Multiresolution Dantzig Selector: From Ion Channel recordings to Biomolecular Microscopy
3:15-3:30pm Break
3:30-5:00pm Discussions
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, May 25
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Harrie Hendriks: Mean location, the two sample problem
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:00am Giseon Heo: Topological Analysis of Variance and the Maxillary Complex
11:00-11:15am Break
11:15-12:15pm Wilfrid Kendall: Riemannian barycentres: from harmonic maps and statistical shape to the classical central limit theorem
12:45pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)