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Info-Metrics Workshop: Recent Advances in Info-Metrics Research

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Date: Thursday, April 8

Venue: Online

Partnering with the Info-Metrics Institute at American University, the Center for Science of Information announces an online interdisciplinary workshop providing a forum for new info-metrics research. For the most up-to-date information visit the workshop page.

Workshop Objectives

In honor of Shannon's 105th Birthday, and in celebration of our recently edited book Advances in Info-Metrics: Information and Information Processing across Disciplines (Chen, Dunn, Golan, Ullah, OUP, 2021), we will have a one-day online workshop to discuss recent advances in info- metrics and information-theoretic inference. The workshop will focus on info-metrics in the 21st century – recent advances, open questions and directions for future research within an interdisciplinary perspective. The aims of the workshop are to provide a forum for the dissemination of new research in all areas of info-metrics and to stimulate discussion between researchers, and students, across fields.

The workshop will consist of invited talks, papers’ presentations, a graduate student session and a panel discussion.

Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

  • Modeling and Inference
  • Applied Info-Metrics Inference
  • Philosophy of info-metrics
  • Causal Inference and info-metrics
  • AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and info-metrics
  • Covid-19 and info-metrics
  • Inequality and info-metrics

 

Program Committee

Min Chen (Oxford) https://sites.google.com/site/drminchen/

Rossella Bernardini Papalia (University of Bologna) https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/rossella.bernardini/en

Amos Golan (American University) Co-Chair http://info-metrics.org/

Justin B. Kinney (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) https://www.cshl.edu/research/faculty-staff/justin-kinney/

Nataly Kravchenko-Balasha (Hebrew University) https://natalykbalashalab.huji.ac.il/

Aman Ullah (UC Riverside) Co-Chair https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ullah

 

Call for Participation

Submission Deadline:

Sunday, February 7, 2021.

 

Contributed Sessions:

We encourage interested researchers from across disciplines to submit papers. All papers (and topics) must be related to info-metrics.

Student Session:

We encourage interested students from across disciplines to submit papers to be presented at a special Students’ Session.

What to Submit?

Complete, or draft, papers are preferred, but detailed abstracts are also acceptable.

 

All submissions should be sent to the two co-chairs:

Amos Golan agolan@american.edu and Aman Ullah aman.ullah@ucr.edu

 

Submission Deadline:

Sunday, February 7, 2021.

 

Invited Speakers

Bin You (UC Berkeley)
https://binyu.stat.berkeley.edu

Karl John Friston (University College London)
https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/ https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=KJFRI52

Confirmed Speakers and Panelists

Wojciech Szpankowski (Purdue)
https://soihub.org/about/participants/faculty/wojciech-szpankowski.html
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/

Michel J. Dunn (Indiana University, Bloomington)
https://philosophy.indiana.edu/people/dunn.shtml

Michael J. Stutzer (U. Colorado, Boulder)
https://www.colorado.edu/business/leeds-directory/faculty/michael-j-stutzer

Nataly Kravchenko-Balasha (Hebrew University)
https://natalykbalashalab.huji.ac.il/people/nataly-kravchenko-balasha?ref_tid=7413

Essie Maasoumi (Emory)
http://economics.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/biography/maasoumi-esfandiar.html

Assaf Zaritsky (Ben Gurion University)
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/Assaf-Zaritsky.aspx

Amir Erez (Hebrew University)
https://phys.huji.ac.il/people/amir-erez

 

 

For more information about the Institute:

 http://www.american.edu/info-metrics