Workshop: Statistical Methods for Modeling Dynamic Systems

July 9-13, 2007

Program

 

Monday, July 9, 2007

08:30 - 09:00
Registration and Coffee
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 10:30
Theodoro Koulis (JSS Medical Research)
James O. Ramsay (McGill University)
An Introduction to Dynamic Systems
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 12:00
Kim McAuley
(Queen's University)
Fundamental Modeling of Chemical Processes – Statistical Challenges and Approaches

12:00 - 14:30
Lunch
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

14:30 - 16:00
Michael C. Mackey
(McGill University)
Modeling the Clinical Data in Periodic Hematological Disease
Abstract

16:15
Welcoming reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 10:30
Lorenz Biegler
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Parameter Estimation of Dynamic Systems using Simultaneous Collocation and Large-scale Nonlinear Programming
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 12:30
Stephen Ellner
(Cornell University)
Understanding Simple Population Dynamics
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Poster Session and Computer Demo (L. Biegler and G. Hooker)
Room 1340
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:30 - 17:00
James O. Ramsay (McGill University)
Giles Hooker (Cornell University)
David Campbell (McGill University)
Jiguo Cao (McGill University)
Parameter Estimation for Differential Equations: A Generalized Smoothing Approach

 

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 10:00
Hulin Wu
(University of Rochester)
Modeling Pathogenesis of Viral Infections: Statistical Inverse Problems for ODE Models
Abstract
10:00 - 11:00
David Campbell
(McGill University)
Bayesian Collocation Tempering and Other MCMC Methods for Differential Equation Models
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:30 - 12:30
Michael Dowd
(Dalhousie University)
Statistical Data Assimilation in Oceanography and Meteorology
Abstract

12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

13:30 - 15:00
Poster Session and Computer Demo
Room 1340
15:00
Coffee break
Room 1221

 

Thursday, July 12, 2007

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 10:30
Johannes Schlöder
(Universität Heidelberg)
Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Parameter Estimation and Optimum Experimental Design in Differential Equation Systems
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 11:30
Sy-Miin Chow (University of Notre Dame)
Ji-Yun Zu (University of Notre Dame)
Manshu Yang (University of Notre Dame)
State-Space Techniques for Fitting Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Models
Abstract
11:30 - 12:00
Caroline Palmer
(McGill University)
Motion dynamics in music performance
Abstract
12:00 - 12:30
Jesse Spencer-Smith
(University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Facial expressions as dynamic events: when a smile isn't a smile
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Poster Session and Computer Demo (J. Cao and G. Hooker)
Room 1340
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:30 - 16:30
Subhash R. Lele
(University of Alberta)
Data Cloning: A simple approach to likelihood inference for dynamical systems
Abstract
16:30 - 17:30
Edward Ionides
(University of Michigan)
Ecology of Infectious Diseases: Cholera as a Case Study
Abstract

 

Friday, July 13, 2007

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:00 - 10:30
Michael Robert Osborne
(Australian National University)
ODE Estimation - Statistical Properties and Computational Problems
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 1221
11:00 - 12:30
Cosma Shalizi
(University of Michigan)
Reconstructing stochastic state spaces from discrete time series
Abstract

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 15:00
Discussion Session "Themes and Future Directions", lead by Bart Childs
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 1221
15:30 - 17:00
Robert Clewley (Cornell University)
Giles Hooker (Cornell University)
Qualitative Measures of Fit for Nonlinear Dynamics