Inference Group Reunion
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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 Greetings from the vice master & Welcome by 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
