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Information, Value, Modeling, and Inference Workshop
Thursday–Friday, September 12–13, 2024
American University, Washington, DC
Overview
The Information, Value, Modeling, and Inference Workshop is a two-day event dedicated to exploring (i) some fundamental concepts of information theory and their applications in inference, modeling, and theory construction across various disciplines, as well as (ii) concepts related to value of information.
The fundamental concepts of information theory are being used for inference, modeling, and theory construction across most disciplines, such as biology, ecology, medicine, economics, finance, physics, political sciences, engineering, computer science, and statistics.
The objective of Fall 2024 workshop is to better understand the interconnections among value, information, and uses of information within an information-theoretic perspective.
Hosted at American University in Washington DC, this in-person workshop will consist of invited talks, presentations of papers, a graduate student session, and panel discussions. Approximately three sessions will be devoted to value of information and the potential value of data.
Topics of Interest
Including but not limited to
- Value of information
- Potential value of data
- Modeling and inference and possibly their values.
- Causal inference and info-metrics
- AI, machine learning, and info-metrics
- Partial identification and information theory
- Inequality and info-metrics
RegistrationDeadline: July 31
Sponsors
Speakers
Plenary Invited Speakers
- Raphael D. Levine
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Wikipedia) - Jose C. Principe
University of Florida (Wikipedia)
Invited Speakers and Sessions
& Info-Metrics Affiliates
- Radu Victor Balan, University of Maryland
- Rossella Bernardini Papalia, University of Bologna
- Ariel Caticha, SUNY Albany
- Min Chen, University of Oxford
- Marine Carrasco, University of Montreal
- David Ebert, University of Oklahoma
- Duncan Foley, New School for Social Research
- Nataly Kravchenko-Balasha, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Natalia Kunst, Yale School of Medicine
- Esfadiar Maasoumi, Emory College of Arts & Science
- Peter Salamon, San Diego State University
- Mateu Sbert, University of Girona
- Han-Wei Shen, Ohio State University
Other Confirmed Speakers
- Adam Ackerman, United States Air Force Academy
- Philip Beaucamp, University of Oxford
- Cesar J. Castillo-Garcia, Wesleyan University
- Maria Costa, University of Aveiro
- Pedro Macedo, University of Aveiro
- Paolo Santos, The New School for Social Research
- Kurt Semm, The New School for Social Research
- Ellis Scharfenaker, University of Utah
- Doguhan Sundal, California State University
- Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
- Jangho Yang, University of Waterloo
Program Committee
- Workshop Co-Chair: Min Chen, Department of Engineering Science, U Oxford (Fellow, Pembroke College)
- Workshop Co-Chair: Amos Golan, Info-metrics Institute, Department of Economics, American University and Santa-Fe (External)
- Workshop Co-Chair: Essie Maasoumi, Department of Economics, Emory College of Arts & Sciences
- Nataly Kravchenko-Balasha, Laboratory of Biophysics and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Duncan Foley, The New School of Social Research and Santa-Fe (External)
- Ariel Caticha, Department of Physics, The State University of New York at Albany
- Ilya Nemenman, Department of Physics, Emory University
- Alastair Hall, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
- John Harte, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley
- Sherman Robinson, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Werner Ploberger, Department of Economics, Washington University of St. Louis
- Jeffrey Racine, Department of Economics, McMaster University