Info-Metrics Across the Sciences
All events on May 2
at American University's Ward Building, Room 2
(Note that 6:00 Reception located in the Butler Board Room)
8:00-9:00 AM Registration-Coffee-Refreshments
9:00-9:10 AM Welcoming Remarks
Cornelius M. Kerwin, President, American University
9:10-9:20 AM Info-Metrics and Workshop’s Objectives
Amos Golan (American U.)
9:25-10:10 AM Session I
Chair: David Wolpert (NASA)
Classical Correlations, Quantum Correlations, and Magical Correlations
Nathan L. Harshman
(Physics; American U.)
10:15-11:15 AM Session II
Chair: Robert Lerman (American U. and Urban Institute)
Whose Entropy?
Raphael D. Levine
(Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology; The Hebrew U. and UCLA)
Discussant: Amos Golan (American U.)
11:15-11:30 AM Coffee Break
11:30-12:15 PM Session III
Chair: Nicholas M. Kiefer (Cornell)
Inferring Multivariate Interaction Models from Empirical Data
Ilya Nemenman
(Physics and Biology; Emory U.)
12:15-1:15 PM Lunch (Provided)
1:15-2:15 PM Session IV
Chair and Discussant: James Bono (American U.)
An Entropic Framework for Modeling Economies
Ariel Caticha
(Physics; SUNY Albany)
(Joint with A. Golan)
2:15-3:00 PM Session V
Chair: Pieter Adriaans (U. Amsterdam)
Why are the Data Too Good to be True?
Teddy Seidenfeld
(Philosophy and Statistics; Carnegie Mellon)
3:00-3:15 PM Coffee Break
3:15-4:00 PM Session VI
Chair: Robin Lumsdaine (American U.)
Inferring Lifetime Distributions from Kinetics by Maximizing Entropy Using a Bootstrapped Model
Peter J. Steinbach
(Center for Molecular Modeling; Center for Information Technology; NIH)
4:00-4:45 PM Session VII
Chair: Ximing Wu (Texas A & M)
Entropy Maximization and Distributions of Money, Income, and Energy Consumption in the Market Economy
Victor Yakovenko
(Physics; U. Md. College Park)
4:45-5:00 PM Coffee Break
5:00-6:15 PM Round Table – Info-Metrics: Information Processing across the Sciences
Moderator: Pieter Adriaans (U. Amsterdam)
William Greene (NYU)
Nicholas M. Kiefer (Cornell)
Robin Lumsdaine (American U.)
John Rust (U Md. College Park)
David Wolpert (NASA)
6:15 -7:30 PM Reception
(Butler Boardroom)
