Info-Metrics and Workshop’s Objectives

Amos Golan (American U.) presentation

Session I

Chair: David Wolpert (NASA)
Classical Correlations, Quantum Correlations, and Magical Correlations presentation
Nathan L. Harshman
(Physics; American U.)

Session II

Chair: Robert Lerman (American U. and Urban Institute)
Whose Entropy? presentation
Raphael D. Levine
(Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology; The Hebrew U. and UCLA)
Discussant: Amos Golan (American U.) presentation

Session III

Chair: Nicholas M. Kiefer (Cornell)
Inferring Multivariate Interaction Models from Empirical Data presentation
Ilya Nemenman
(Physics and Biology; Emory U.)

Session IV

Chair and Discussant: James Bono (American U.)
An Entropic Framework for Modeling Economies presentation
Ariel Caticha
(Physics; SUNY Albany)
(Joint with A. Golan)

Session V

Chair: Pieter Adriaans (U. Amsterdam)
Why are the Data Too Good to be True? presentation
Teddy Seidenfeld
(Philosophy and Statistics; Carnegie Mellon) 

Session VI

Chair: Robin Lumsdaine (American U.)
Inferring Lifetime Distributions from Kinetics by Maximizing Entropy Using a Bootstrapped Model presentation—and please see visualizations below
Peter J. Steinbach (Center for Molecular Modeling; Center for Information Technology; NIH)

Session VII

Chair: Ximing Wu (Texas A & M)
Entropy Maximization and Distributions of Money, Income, and Energy Consumption in the Market Economy presentation
Victor Yakovenko
(Physics; U. Md. College Park)

Round Table – Info-Metrics: Information Processing across the Sciences

Moderator: Pieter Adriaans (U. Amsterdam) presentation
William Greene (NYU)
Nicholas M. Kiefer (Cornell)
Robin Lumsdaine (American U.)
John Rust (U Md. College Park)
David Wolpert (NASA)

Peter Steinbach Visualizations