Workshop 
Principal manifolds 
for data cartography and dimension reduction

August 24-26, 2006, 
Michael Atiyah Building, 
Lecture room 119 
Leicester University, 
Leicester, UK

Entry to the meeting is free and open to all
http://www.math.le.ac.uk/people/ag153/homepage/PrincManLeicAug2006.htm

The Program

The first day, 24.08.2006, Thursday
9:30 Registration and coffee
10:20 Opening 
10:30 - 11:20 Balazs Kegl 
A general overview of manifold learning, presenting the achievements of
the last ten years and the challenges of future research.
11:30 - 12:20 Boris Mirkin 
Principal cluster analysis methods in different settings
12:30 - 14:00 
Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Joachim Selbig 
Integrated analysis of metabolite, gene expression, and other profile
data: Missing value estimation, dimension reduction, clustering, and
classification
15:00 - 15:50 Andrei Zinovyev 
Elastic maps with applications in bioinformatics
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee 
16:20 - 17:00 Rodolphe Sepulchre
Optimization on manifolds and ICA algorithms
17:10 - 17:50 David Elizondo 
Geometrical approaches for Artificial Neural Networks

The second day, 25.08.2006, Friday
9:30 - 10:20 Alois Steindl and Hans Troger
Invariant manifolds in the dimension reduction for fluid conveying tubes
10:30 - 11:10 Stephane Girard 
Auto-associative models and generalized principal component analysis
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:20 Steven B. Damelin 
A talk on dimension reduction and its connections to Paley Weiner
theorems in scattering and imaging.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Colin Fyfe 
A family of topology preserving mappings for data visualisation
15:00 - 15:50 Hujun Yin 
Self-organising maps for data visualisation and principal manifold
mapping
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee
16:20 - 17:10 Liz  Stuart 
An Overview of Visualization Techniques for the Analysis of Large
Datasets
17:10 - 18:00 Jochen Einbeck 
Local principal curves
19:00 Conference dinner

The third day, 26.08.2006, Saturday
9:30 - 10:20 Donald Wunsch
Cluster analysis technique and dimension reduction approaches
10:30 - 11:20 Uwe Kruger 
Development and Application of Nonlinear PCA for Fault Diagnosis in
Internal Combustion Engines
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee
11:40 - 12:30 Ludger Evers 
A simple algorithm for piecewise linear approximation to principal
manifolds and its application to regression modelling
12:40 - 13:30 Alexander Gorban 
Topological grammars for data analysis
13:30 - 14:20 Lunch
14:20 - ... General discussion and Workshop closing


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Prof. Alexander Gorban
Chair in Applied Mathematics,
University of Leicester
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Telephone - +44 (0) 116 223 14 33
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United Kingdom