Saturday, August 3
3:00-6:00 pm Registration - Best Western University Inn
6:00 - 8:30 pm Reception - Best Western University Inn
Sunday, August 4
8:30 -10:00 am Tutorial 1: Maximum entropy in the mean: A useful tool for constrained inverse problems by Henryk Gzyl
10:15-11:45 am Tutorial 2: Blind Signal Separation by Kevin Knuth
NOON-1:30 pm Lunch
1:45-3:15 pm Tutorial 3: Data and Image Fusion by Ali Mohammad-Djafari
Monday, August 5
8:30-9:00 am Session 1: Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00 am Session 2: Estimation and Inference
9:00 presentation #1: Frequency Estimation, the Nonstationary Harmonically Related Case    Bretthorst
9:30 presentation  #2: A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO ESTIMATING COUPLING BETWEEN NEURAL COMPONENTS:   EVALUATION OF THE MULTIPLE COMPONENT, EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL (mcERP) ALGORITHM  AS Shah et al
10:00-10:30 am Break
10:30-noon Session 3: Estimation and Inference
10:30 presentation #3: Bayesian Estimation of Fish Disease Prevlance with Imperfect Sensitivity and Specificity       Williams et al
11:00 presentation #4: Using Bayesian Analysis and Maximum Entropy to Develop Nonparametric Probability Distributions for the Mean and Variance       Price et al
11:30 presentation #5: Chernoff’s bound forms     Grendar et al
NOON-1:30 pm Lunch
1:45-3:15 pm Session 4: Physics Applications
1:45 presentation #6: Maximum Entropy Approach to Mean Field Theories for Fluids    Tseng et al
2:15 presentation #7: Hierarchies of Models: Toward Understanding Planetary Nebulae   Knuth et al
2:45 presentation #8: Dirichlet Integral Principle for elliptic type quasilinear pdes of irreversible heat conduction process with minimum principles in case of first, second and third type boundary conditions     Kiss
3:15-3:45 pm Break
3:45-5:15 pm Session 5: Signal separation and classification
3:45 presentation #9: Learning in presence of input noise using the stochastic EM algorithm    Seghouane et al
4:15 presentation #10: Maximum Entropy and Genetic Algorithms for Source Separation   Rojas et al
4:45 presentation #11: An Information Geometrical Approach on Learning Structure of Bayesian Belief Networks   Lauria
Tuesday, August 6
8:30-10:00 Session 6: Signal separation and classification
8:30 presentation #12: A Bayesian Classification Model for Real-Time Intrusion Detection      Puttini et al
9:00 presentation #13: Recent Developments in Bayesian Pattern Classification     Center
9:30 presentation #14: Statistical Problems with Weather Radar Images: Clutter Identification and Attenuation Detection         Fernández-Durán et al
10:00- 10:30 am Break
10:30-11:30 Session 7: Inductive Logic Theory
10:30 presentation #15: What is a Question?    Knuth
11:00 presentation #16: Geometric vs. Logical Inquiry    Joseph et al
11:30-1:00 pm Lunch
1:15-2:45 Session 8: Prior Distributions, Utility Functions, and Beyond
1:15 presentation #17: Elicitation of Prior in Bayesian Inference through the Solution of an Integral Equation   Gribok et al
1:45 presentation #18: Maximum Entropy Utility    Abbas
2:15 presentation #19: On Ignorance      Rodriguez
2:15-4:00 pm Free time
4:00 - ??? Trip and dinner
Wednesday, August 7 To be announced