The school runs from Wednesday 1 September until Monday 6 September 2010. The morning lectures run from 9:00 to 12:30, and the afternoon lectures from 13:30 to 17:00. All lectures take place in room CM221 of the Mathematical Sciences department of Durham University.
The last day of the school overlaps with the WPMSIIP workshop, and will give all participants the possibility to present their work in a seminar, with discussion time. We hope that several leading researchers will be present for the discussions, and also that some of the topics the students work on are of further interest to the WPMSIIP workshop. On the evening of 6 September, there will be a gala dinner.
Saturday 4 September will be dedicated to an excursion to Durham brewery.
All lectures will be given in English. Each lecture will be 3h30 long, including a coffee break, and will be evenly split into theory and exercises. All the school materials (slides, videos, exercises, ...) will also be available after the school on this website.
Tuesday 31 August
Informal get-together in town. Leaving from the entrance of Collingwood College at 18:30.
Wednesday 1 September
- 9:00-12:30—General introduction to imprecise probability (Enrique Miranda, Oviedo)
- 13:30-17:00—Inference and desirability (Erik Quaeghebeur, Carnegie Mellon)
Thursday 2 September
- 9:00-12:30—Structural Judgements (Gert de Cooman, Gent)
- 13:30-17:00—Imprecise Markov Chains (Damjan Skulj, Ljubljana)
Friday 3 September
- 9:00-12:30—Decision making (Matthias Troffaes, Durham)
- 13:30-15:00—Bayes linear methods (Ian Vernon and Jonathan Cumming, Durham)
- 15:30-17:00—Nonparametric predictive inference (Frank Coolen and Tahani Coolen-Maturi, Durham)
Saturday 4 September
- Excursion: visit to Durham brewery followed by an optional walk (6 miles, downhill) along the river back to town, if weather permits.
Sunday 5 September
- 9:00-12:30—Graphical Models (Alessandro Antonucci, Lugano)
- 13:30-17:00—Classification (Cassio de Campos, Lugano)
Note: both topics prepared jointly by Alessandro Antonucci, Cassio de Campos, and Giorgio Corani (Lugano).
Monday 6 September
- 9:00-17:00—Research seminars (WPMSIIP)
- Joint summerschool/workshop dinner
