DIMACS Tutorial on Data Mining and Epidemiology

Dates: March 23 - 24, 2006
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

James Abello, DIMACS, abello@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Graham Cormode, Bell Laboratories, cormode@bell-labs.com

Workshop Program:

Thursday, March 23, 2006

 Probability and Machine Learning Tutorials 

 8:15 -  9:00 Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 -  9:10 Introductory Remarks
              Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

 9:10 - 10:15 Selected Problems in Epidemiology 
              Nina Fefferman, DIMACS and Tufts University 

              The Mathematical Formulation of the Foot-and-mouth Disease Epidemic
              Component of the Decision Support System Developed at LLNL
              Tanya Kostova, LLNL

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 -  1:00 Probability for Data Miners Tutorial
              Brigham Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University

 1:00 -  2:00 Lunch 

 2:00 -  4:30 Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification
              Robert Schapire, Princeton University

 4:30 -  4:45 Break

 4:45 -  5:45 Contributed Talks
 
              The Containment Problem
              Michael Capalbo

              Viruses and Computer Scientists
              Courtney D. Corley, University of North Texas

              Using cluster analysis to determine the influence of epidemiological
              features on medical status of lung cancer patients
              Dmitriy Fradkin, Ask.com

 5:45 -  7:45 Dinner and Reception

Friday, March 24, 2006

 Data Streaming and Graph Mining Tutorials 

 8:15 -  9:00 Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 -  9:15 Introductory Remarks

 9:15 - 11:45 Cluster and Data Stream Analysis
              Graham Cormode, Bell Labs

11:45 -  1:00 Lunch

 1:00 -  3:15 Graph Mining Tutorial
              James Abello, DIMACS and Ask-Research

 3:15 -  3:30 Break

 3:30 -  5:00 Closing Section - To what extent are the presented data mining 
              techniques useful for epidemiological research?
              Moderators: James Abello, Graham Cormode, Nina Fefferman and Tanya Kostova 

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