Algodan seminar 2011

Time: 28th October 2011, at 8:45 - 21:00
Place: Park Hotel Käpylä, Pohjolankatu 38, Helsinki (map)

Programme

Many of the Algodan researchers will give talks on their research. There are 20 minutes reserved for each of the talks, if anything else is not stated in the programme.

08:45	Morning coffee
09:15	Welcome Address
	Esko Ukkonen	Algodan now and in 2014
09:30	Session 1: Bridges, Bayes and Occam
	Mikko Koivisto	The sum-product bridge
	Pekka Parviainen	Algorithms for exact structure discovery in Bayesian networks
	Valentin Polishchuk	Distributed Localization and Clustering Using Data Correlation and the Occam’s Razor Principle
10:30	Break
10:40	Session 2: Sequences
	Veli Mäkinen	Indexing Finite Language Representation of Population Genotypes
	Leena Salmela	Fast scaffolding with small independent mixed integer programs
	Juha Kärkkäinen	Improving FM Index
11:40	Group Photo (by Esa Pitkänen)
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Session 3: Lattices, segments and histograms
	Petteri Kaski	Fast zeta transforms for lattices with few irreducibles
	Esa Junttila	Segmented nestedness in binary data (10 min)
	Panu Luosto	Clustgrams: An extension to histogram densities based on the MDL principle
13.50	Break
14:00	Session 4: Creativity and Uralic studies
	Hannu Toivonen	Graph mining and creativity
	Alessandro Valitutti	Computational humour
	Roman Yangarber	UraLink: modeling Uralic etymology
15:00	Afternoon coffee
15:30	Session 5: Neuroinformatics
	Aapo Hyvärinen	On statistical testing in unsupervised learning
	Patrik Hoyer	Controlling for confounding
16:10	Session 6: Eco-socio-lingua
	Kai Puolamäki	Overview of the group and correlations and co-occurrences in ecology (10-15 min)
	Panagiotis Papapetrou	Influence attribution in social networks (10-15 min)
	Jefrey Lijffijt	Data mining methods for corpus linguistics and temporal data (10-15 min)
16.50	Break
17:00	Session 7: Bioinformatic and environmental modeling
	Juho Rousu	Machine learning for molecular data
	Esa Pitkänen	Comparative metabolic reconstruction of fungal species
	Mika Sulkava, Mikko Korpela, Janne Toivola	Parsimonious models in monitoring the environment and wireless sensor networks
18.00	Break
18:15	Dinner