CALL FOR PAPERS
MSRI Workshop on
Nonlinear Estimation and Classification
Berkeley, California
March 19-29, 2001
Web: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/cocteau/nec/
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SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE
R. Baraniuk, L. Breiman, B. Cleveland, D. Cox, I. Daubechies, T. Deittrich,
R. DeVore, D. Donoho, J. Friedman, D. Mumford, T. Poggio, A. Raftery,
R. Schapire, C. Stone, G. Wahba, M. West, L. Zhao.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
David Denison (Imperial College), Mark Hansen (Bell Labs), Chris Holmes
(Imperial College), Robert Kohn (Univ. of New South Wales), Bani Mallick (Texas
A&M), Martin Tanner (Northwestern), Bin Yu (Bell Labs and UC Berkeley)
GOALS
Researchers in many disciplines face the formidable task of analyzing
massive amounts of high-dimensional and highly-structured data. This is due in
part to recent advances in data collection and computing technologies. As a
result, fundamental statistical research is being undertaken in a variety of
different fields. Driven by the complexity of these new problems, and fueled by
the explosion of available computer power, highly adaptive, non-linear
procedures are now essential components of modern "data analysis," a term that
we liberally interpret to include speech and pattern recognition,
classification, data compression and signal processing. The development of new,
flexible methods combines advances from many sources, including approximation
theory, numerical analysis, machine learning, signal processing and statistics.
The proposed workshop intends to bring together eminent experts from these
fields in order to exchange ideas and forge directions for the future. It also
intends to introduce the research topics to graduate students by providing
travel support and by requiring the last speaker of each session to give an
overview of the field.
PARTICIPATION AND CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Contributed presentations (talks and posters) are invited for original
work related to the theme of the workshop. Submissions are to be in the form of
an extended abstract, consisting of not more than 1 page (not including
references). Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women and minorities are strongly
encouraged to apply.
Extended abstracts will be accepted in PostScript or PDF formats and
should be mailed to [log in to unmask] When submitting papers, please
also indicate whether travel funds are necessary for attendance. The deadline
for extended abstracts is October 27, 2000. Notification of acceptance will be
sent out on Dec. 1, 2000.
For more information visit the Web site
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/cocteau/nec/
or email [log in to unmask]
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