The 19th Summer Working Group on Model-Based Clustering will be held in University of Guelph from July 16-20, 2012. The sessions will be at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Guelph, and accomodation will be available close to the campus; accommodation and travel details are available at this link. The organizing committee this year consists of Gilles Celeux, Brendan Murphy, Paul McNicholas and Adrian Raftery.
It will start with an opening social event on Sunday July 15, sessions in the mornings Monday-Friday July 16-20, and a hike on Saturday July 21.
| Day (Chair) | Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday (Gilles Celeux) | 9:00-10:20 | Sam Clark, University of Washington | Exploring uses of model-based clustering in demography: age patterns of mortality, causes of death and household socio-economic status |
| 10:40-12:00 | Paul McNicholas, University of Guelph | Generalized hyperbolic distributions | |
| Tuesday (Paul McNicholas) | 9:00-10:20 | Christophe Ambroise, Genopole, CNRS | New consistent and asymptotically normal parameter estimates for random-graph mixture models |
| 10:40-10:55 | Adrian Raftery, University of Washington | Inference for biological networks via Bayesian model averaging | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Dimitris Karlis, Athens University of Economics and Business & Ioannis Kosmidis, University College London | Mixture modelling through copulas | |
| 11:20-11:35 | Brendan Murphy, University College Dublin | Variable selection for HILIC glycan data for biomarker discovery | |
| 11:40-11:55 | Cinzia Viroli, Università Di Bologna | On the infinite Gaussian Mixture model and its dimensionally reduced extensions | |
| 12:30 | Working Group Lunch | ||
| 14:00-16:00 | Poster Session | ||
| Wednesday (Brendan Murphy) | 9:00-10:20 | Sanjeena Subedi, University of Guelph | Variational Bayes approximations for parameter estimation and model selection |
| 10:40-10:55 | Isabella Gollini, National University of Ireland Maynooth | Joining latent variable models for Network data | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Elena Erosheva, University of Washington | Partial membership clustering for mixed outcomes | |
| 11:20-11:35 | Gilles Celeux, INRIA Futurs, Orsay | Bayesian regularisation for the latent class model | |
| 11:40-11:55 | Caroline Meynet, Université Paris XI - Paris Sud | Variable selection via l1-regularization in model-based clustering | |
| 14:00-16:00 | mclust Session | ||
| Thursday (Adrian Raftery) | 9:00-10:20 | Tristan Mary-Huard, AgroParisTech | Error rate control for multi-class classification rules |
| 10:40-10:55 | Charles Bouveyron, Université Paris 1 | Clustering of heterogeneous data with parsimonious Gaussian process models | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Bettina Grün, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz | Flexible modeling of mixtures of regressions | |
| 11:20-11:35 | Giuliano Galimberti, Università Di Bologna | Using mixtures to model non-Gaussian errors in multivariate linear regression | |
| 11:40-11:55 | Stéphane Robin, AgroParisTech | Averaging mixture models using a variational approximation | |
| 19:00 | Working Group Dinner | ||
| Friday (Geoff McLachlan) | 09:00-10:20 | Pierre Latouche, Université Paris 1 | A model selection criterion for overlapping stochastic block models with L2 constraints |
| 10:40-12:00 | Ryan Browne, University of Guelph | Estimation algorithms for Gaussian parsimonious clustering models | |
| Saturday | All day | Working Group Hike |
Last updated April 2nd, 2012