IPAM Summer School: July/2007

Monday (9/July) -- Friday (13/July) 

Description:

Background Material:

Allow the students access to the TICS special issue.

Tom Griffiths: Reading List on Bayesian Methods: http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/bayes.html

Griffiths & Yuille Extended Tutorial: Probabilistic_Inference_GY.pdf

Zoubin Ghahramani Tutorials: Nonparametric_Methods_zg.pdf, Machine_Learning_zg.pdf, Unsupervised_Learning.pdf.

 

Week 1: Basic Methods and Simple Applications:


Monday, Week 1
Tuesday, Week 1
Wednesday, Week 1
Thursday, Week 1
Friday, Week 1

Possible evening meetings for Week 1: Really Basic Bayes (no, too simple), Scale Invariance (Chater), Kolmogorov Complexity. Learning to control dynamical systems (Jacobs), “Are people really Bayesian” debate (Chater, Fox, Tenenbaum, Griffiths). Project meeting, Pearl on causality. Project meeting?

 



Monday, Week 2
Tuesday, Week 2
Wednesday, Week 2
Thursday, Week 2
Friday, Week 2

 Possible evening meetings for Week 2. - Softward for Bayesian modeling (Darwiche).  How does cog sci relate to AI? (Russell; also Milch, Geman et al.)Connections to linguistics (UCLA linguists, plus Levy, Klein?)- Shiffrin: paradoxes of choice



Monday, Week 3
Tuesday, Week 3
Wednesday, Week 3
Thursday, Week 3

Possible evening meeting for Week 3 – Mathematical proofs – Rescorla-Wagner, limits of hierarchical models.

Further Ideas:

Student projects: - Optional, introduced in first week by faculty with ideas (evening session?) - Have students sign up to give talks on their research in the evening (Do this *before* the conference so we can choose the good ones, and they can prepare!)

Maybe have recitations/discussions, led be permanent faculty (and other UCLA folks)

Empower students to organize activities (sports, hikes, ...) Noah (come as much as possible?) Amy

Can students get library access? Or can we assemble a library at IPAM, from web sources and UCLA

Reading -- Strongly encourage reading in advance: Sivia, Pearl 2000 (Chapter 1). Tenenbaum notes TiCS, other tutorials

Software: Get some software packages together in advance. Who can help with this?  Darwiche and students?  Murphy?

Other speakers to line up? Mark Johnson. Nando de Freitas (week 3, near math psych).