7:40 am -- 7:45 am | Opening Remarks | |
7:45 am -- 8:30 am | The Importance of Uncertainty Quantification in Modeling of Complex Systems: Examples From Emerging Diseases, Neuroscience and Scientific Discovery | Luis Bettencourt, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
8:30 am -- 9:15 am | Monte Carlo Methods in Robotics and Vision | Frank Dellaert, Georgia Institute of Technology |
9:15 am -- 9:40 am | Sampling Structure | Joseph Schlecht, University of Arizona |
9:40 am -- 9:55 am | Break | |
9:55 am -- 10:20 am | Face Recognition in Totally Unconstrained Environments | Erik Learned-Miller, University of Massachusetts |
10:20 am -- 10:45 am | Managing Uncertainty in Sequential Decision Making | Nando de Freitas, University of British Columbia |
10:45 am -- 11:10 am | Statistics on Shape Manifolds: Theory and Applications | Rabindra Bhattacharya, University of Arizona |
11:10 am -- 11:55 am | A Taxonomy of Quantitative Methods for Assessing Risk | Ed Melnick, New York University |
11:55 am -- 12:20 pm | Hierarchical Models for Quantifying Uncertainty in Human Health Risk Assessment | Ralph Kodell, University of Arkansas |
12:20 pm -- 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
1:30 pm -- 2:15 pm | Trends in Quantifying Hydrogeologic Uncertainties | Shlomo Neuman, University of Arizona |
2:15 pm -- 2:35 pm | Non-Intrusive Stochastic Approaches for Uncertainty Quantification | Dongxiao Zhang, University of Southern California |
2:35 pm -- 3:00 pm | Modeling the Catchment Via Mixtures: an Uncertainty Framework for Dynamic Hydrologic Systems | Lucy Marshall, Montana State University |
3:00 pm -- 3:25 pm | NSF CDI, and Stochastic Approaches for Multiphase Flow | Thomas Russell, National Science Foundation |
3:25 pm -- 3:50 pm | Open Discussion: Bridging the Disciplines | |
3:50 pm -- 4:00 pm | Break | |
Mathematics Building, Room 501 | ||
4:00 pm -- 5:00 pm | Multiscale Numerical Methods for Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media and Their Applications | Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University |
7:00 pm -- 9:00 pm | Catered Dinner |
7:30 am -- 8:15 am | Uncertainty in Models of the Ocean and Atmosphere | Robert Miller, Oregon State University |
8:15 am -- 8:40 am | The Diffusion Kernel Filter | Paul Krause, University of Arizona |
8:40 am -- 9:05 am | Expected and Actual Forecast Errors in a Stochastic Prediction Model of El Niño | Cecile Penland, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
9:05 am -- 9:30 am | Computational Methods for Parameter Estimation in Climate Models | Gabriel Huerta, University of New Mexico |
9:30 am -- 9:45 am | Break | |
9:45 am -- 10:10 am | Assessing Uncertainty in Regional Climate Experiments | Steve Sain, University of Colorado |
10:10 am -- 10:35 am | Wave/Current Interactions and Wave Breaking | Jorge Ramirez, University of Arizona |
10:35 am -- 11:00 am | Accelerating Atomistic Simulations Using Self-Learning Hyperdynamics | Danny Perez, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
11:00 am -- 11:25 am | Some Basic Statistical Modeling Issues in Molecular and Ocean Dynamics | Peter Kramer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
11:25 am -- 12:10 pm | Projection Methods for Multiscale Computing and Homogenization | George Papanicolaou, Stanford University |
12:10 pm -- 1:30 am | Lunch | |
2:00 pm -- 5:00 pm | Group Hike |