Schedule of Workshop 2: Manifold Learning
Monday, May 30
| Morning | Meet-up at HIM |
| 14:00-14:15 | Opening |
| 14:15-15:15 | John A. Lee: Unsupervised Dimensionality Deduction: from PCA to recent nonlinear techniques |
| 15:15-16:00 | Cake |
| 16:15-17:00 | Alexander Hullmann: The Generative Topographic Mapping for dimensionality reduction and data analysis |
Tuesday, May 31
| 09:30-10:30 | Neil Lawrence: A unifying probabilistic perspective on spectral approaches to dimensionality reduction |
| 10:30-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 | Alexander Paprotny: An Asymptotic Convergence Result for Maximum Variance Unfolding Based on an Interpretation as a Regularized Shortest Path Problem |
| 12:00-14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15-15:15 | Dan Kushnir: Anisotropic Diffusion Maps with Applications to Inverse Problems |
| 15:15-16:00 | Cake |
| 16:00-16:45 | Rodrigo Iza Teran: Diffusion Maps for Finite-Element Simulation Data |
Wednesday, June 1
| 09:30-10:30 | Matthias Hein: Nonlinear Eigenproblems in Machine Learning |
| 10:30-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 | Christian Rieger: Sampling Inequalities and Manifold Regularization |
| 12:00-12:45 | Daniel Wissel: Fast Gauss Transforms for high-dimensional problems |
| 12:45- | Lunch break |
| afternoon - social program |
Thursday, June 2
| 09:30-10:30 | Alexander Gorban: Principal graphs and topological grammars for data approximation |
| 10:30-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:00 | Mijail Guillemard: New Perspectives in Signal Processing Combining Dimensionality Reduction and Persistent Homology |
| 12:00-14:15 | Lunch break |
| 14:15-15:15 | Michael Kirby: Geometry and the Analysis of Massive Data Sets |
| 15:15-16:00 | Cake |
| 16:00-16:45 | Felix Krahmer: New and improved Johnson-Lindenstrauss embeddings via the Restricted Isometry Property |
Friday, June 3
| 09:30-10:30 | Zhenyue Zhang: Spectral Analysis of Alignment Matrices in Manifold Learning |
| 10:30-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-12:15 | Xavier Pennec: Current Issues in Statistical Analysis on Manifolds for Computational Anatomy |
| 12:15- | closing comments |
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