The National Program on
Complex Data Structures

 
       

November 10-12,2005
Workshop on Data Mining
at the Fields Institute, Toronto

Supported by
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November 9-10, 2005 Distinguished Lecture Series in Statistical Science at Fields
Brad Efron, Max H. Stein Professor and Professor of Statistics and of Health Research and Policy, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Nov. 9, 2005 --3:30 p.m, . 'Fifty Years Of Empirical Bayes'
Nov. 10, 2005 -- 11 a.m, . ' Correlation And Large-Scale Simultaneous Significance Testing'


Tentative Schedule

Thursday November 10
1:00 - 1:30
Registration
1:30 - 2:00
Welcome, opening remarks
2:00 - 2:30
Simon Gluzman, Generation 5
Extrapolation and Interpolation with Self-Learning Approximants
2:30 - 3:00
Wenxue Huang, Milorad Krneta, Limin Lin and Jianhong Wu Generation 5
Association Bundle Identification for Categorical Data
3:00 - 3:30
---coffee break---
3:30 - 4:15
Chris Volinsky, AT&T
Modelling Massive Dynamic Graphs
4:15 - 5:00 Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University
Bayesian Analyses for Dyadic Data

Friday November 11

8:30 -  9:00
---continental breakfast----
9:00 -  9:45
Sam Roweis, University of Toronto
Automatic Visualization and Classification of High Dimensional Data
9:45 - 10:30
William Bush, Vanderbilt University
Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction for Detecting Epistasis
10:30 - 11:00
---coffee break---
11:00 - 11:45 Abdissa Negassa, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Tree-based approaches for censored survival data and model selection
11:45 - 12:30 Vito Quaranta, Vanderbilt University
Integrating Multiscale Data for Simulating Cancer Invasion and Metastasis
12:30 -  2:00 ---lunch break---
2:00 -  2:45
Gregory Warnes, Global Research and Development, PFIZER INC
Data Mining Opportunities in Pharmaceutical Research
2:45 -  3:30 
Yale Zhang, Dofasco
Data mining in steel industry
3:30 -  4:00 ---coffee break---
4:00 -  4:45

Zhengxin Chen, University of Omaha
Thoughts on Foundations of Data Mining

5:00 - 7:00 ---Poster session and mixer---

Saturday November 12

 8:30 -  9:00
---continental breakfast---
9:00 -  9:45
Djamel Zighed, University Lumiere Lyon 2
Some enhancements in decision trees
9:45 - 10:30
Robert McCulloch, University of Chicago
Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
10:30 - 11:00
---coffee break---
11:00 - 11:45
Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Regression Models You Can See

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