Workshop
Principal manifolds
for data cartography and dimension reduction

 

August 24-26, 2006,

Michael Atiyah Building,

Lecture room 119

Leicester University,
Leicester, UK

 

The Program

 

The first day, 24.08.2006, Thursday

 

9:30 Registration and coffee

 

10:20 Opening

 

10:30 – 11:20 Balazs Kegl

A general overview of manifold learning, presenting the achievements of the last ten years and the challenges of future research. PRESENTATION

 

11:30 – 12:20 Boris Mirkin

Principal cluster analysis methods in different settings PRESENTATION

 

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 – 14:50 Joachim Selbig

Integrated analysis of metabolite, gene expression, and other profile data: Missing value estimation, dimension reduction, clustering, and classification PRESENTATION

 

15:00 – 15:50 Andrei Zinovyev

Elastic maps with applications in bioinformatics PRESENTATION

 

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee

 

16:20 – 17:00 Rodolphe Sepulchre

Optimization on manifolds and ICA algorithms PRESENTATION

 

17:10 – 17:50 David Elizondo

Geometrical approaches for Artificial Neural Networks PRESENTATION

 

The second day, 25.08.2006, Friday

 

9:30 – 10:20 Alois Steindl and Hans Troger

Invariant manifolds in the dimension reduction for fluid conveying tubes PRESENTATION

 

10:30 – 11:10 Stephane Girard

Auto-associative models and generalized principal component analysis PRESENTATION

 

11:10 – 11:30 Coffee

 

11:30 – 12:20 Steven B. Damelin

A talk on dimension reduction and its connections to Paley Weiner theorems in scattering and imaging PRESENTATION

 

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

 

14:00 – 14:50 Colin Fyfe

A family of topology preserving mappings for data visualisation PRESENTATION

 

15:00 – 15:50 Hujun Yin

Self-organising maps for data visualisation and principal manifold mapping PRESENTATION

 

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee

 

16:20 – 17:10 Liz  Stuart

An Overview of Visualization Techniques for the Analysis of Large Datasets PRESENTATION

 

17:10 – 18:00 Jochen Einbeck

Local principal curves PRESENTATION

 

19:00 Conference dinner

 

The third day, 26.08.2006, Saturday

 

9:30 – 10:20 Donald Wunsch

Cluster analysis technique and dimension reduction approaches PRESENTATION

 

10:30 – 11:20 Uwe Kruger

Development and Application of Nonlinear PCA for Fault Diagnosis in Internal Combustion Engines PRESENTATION

 

11:20 – 11:40 Coffee

 

11:40 – 12:30 Ludger Evers

A simple algorithm for piecewise linear approximation to principal manifolds and its application to regression modelling PRESENTATION

 

12:40 – 13:30 Alexander Gorban

Topological grammars for data analysis PRESENTATION

 

13:30 – 14:20 Lunch

 

14:20 - … General discussion and Workshop closing