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> Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK > > Future Directions in High-Dimensional Data Analysis: new > methodologies, new data types and new applications > > (23 June to 27 June 2008) > > in association with the Newton Institute programme entitled > Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data (7 > January to 27 June 2008) > > Workshop Organisers: Dr David Barber (University College London), > Professor Iain Johnstone (Stanford University), Dr Richard Samworth > (University of Cambridge) and Professor Michael Titterington > (University of Glasgow) > > Theme of Workshop: This closing workshop of the research programme > will look both backwards and forwards, although mainly the latter. > There will be a retrospective component that reviews some of the ideas > and advances that have been generated or initiated during the > preceding six months, but the emphasis will be on presentations that > look to the future, in this vital area of the analysis of large-scale > data-sets. The invited speakers will include leading researchers from > statistics and machine learning, and will describe > theoretical/methodological advances as well as issues associated with > implementation in important applied fields, such as finance, > climatology, analysis of sparse signals and genomics. > > Confirmed Speakers: D Barber (UCL); T Cai (Pennsylvania); P Hall > (Melbourne); V Koltchinskii (Georgia); E Levina (Michigan); N > Meinshausen (Osford); A Owen (Stanford); A Tsybakov (Paris); J Rice > (Berkeley); J van Houwelingen (Leiden); J-L Wang (Davis); E Wit > (Lancaster); M Yuan (Georgia). > > Further Information and Application Forms are available from the WWW at: > > <http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCH/schw03.html> > > Closing Date for the receipt of applications is 29 February 2008 >