July - December 1997
Organisers: C M Bishop (Aston), D Haussler (UCSC), G E Hinton (Toronto), M Niranjan (Cambridge), L G Valiant (Harvard)
PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS
1 - 5 September 1997
Organisers: C M Bishop (Aston) and J Whittaker (Lancaster)
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Christopher Bishop (Aston) Latent variables
Phil Dawid (London) Conditional Independence for Statistics and AI
Ed George (Texas) Empirical Bayes Covariance Selection
Wally Gilks (Cambridge) Simulation Methodology for Dynamic Models
David Heckerman (Microsoft) Directed Acyclic Graphs: Representation and Learning
Tommi Jaakkola (MIT) Bayesian Estimation in the Presence of Missing Values
Mike Jordan (MIT) Approximate inference via variational techniques
Stuart Russell (Berkeley) Learning: temporal processes and structure
Ross Shachter (Stanford) Causal Models: What does one need to know?
Prakash Shenoy (Kansas) Some Improvements to the Shenoy-Shafer Architecture for Computing Marginals
David Spiegelhalter (MRC, Cambridge) Bayesian Graphical Modelling
Milan Studeny (Praha) On separation criterion for chain graphs
Joe Whittaker (Lancaster) Graphical models