Inference Group Reunion

Reunion of David MacKay's Inference Group 13 March 2016 (Invitation Only)

09:30-11:00 Kids & family brunch (with partners & kids)

11:00-11:15 Welcome from Martin Jones (Vice Master) & Alan Blackwell

11:15-12:30 talks I (less technical, 5-25min / talk)

• Jossy Sayir (Teaching with David)
• Sanjoy Mahajan (21st-century instructional design: Task-centered instruction)
• Mark Gibbs (How to waste your PhD in an investment bank)
• Alex Selby (Solving the Eternity Puzzle)
• Keith Vertanen (Eyes Free Text Entry)
• Matt Davey(Trading in Nanoseconds)

12:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:30 talks II (scientific, 5-25min/talk)

• Ryan Adams (Performing Inference with Biomolecules)
• Steve Gull (Bayes, MaxEnt and Thermodynamics)
• David Stern (Modelling Uncertainty in Go and the Stock Market)
• Edward Ratzer (Machine learning competitions)
• Hanna Wallach (Topic-Partitioned Network Structure)

15:30-16:00 tea break

16:00-17:00 talks III (scientific, 5-25min/talk)

• Philipp Hennig (Probabilistic Numerics)
• Phil Cowans (Valuing Houses at Nested)
• Alan Lawrence (Data Analysis at Scale: A Bayesian Inference project at Google)

17:10-18:00 Music in the dining hall

• Graeme Mitchison and Helen Arnold
• Jossy Sayir and Elizabeth Blackwell
• Christian Steinruecken
• Darwin College Choir

19:00 Dinner