Optional Activities Dec 2004 - Jan 2005

David MacKay, Kimber Gross, Kate Marvel, Mike Pickles, Jan

Saturday 18th - Friday 24th December
SaturdaySunday MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
Morning 10am Bayesian inference
11am Curve sketching.
10am Curve sketching.
11am Biology of HIV
10-12 Bayesian inference World of birds trip? 10-12 Structured stochastic models
Afternoon 4pm-6pm Discussion: Social issues and AIDS
2pm-3pm Linux;
4.30pm-6pm Estimation on the beach
2pm-3pm Linux;
 2pm-3pm Linux World of birds trip?
5pm-6pm Communication theory reading group
Evening 7pm Stars 7pm Discussion: Science and Ethics 7pm Computer Programming 7pm Computer Programming

Notes:

  1. The final puzzle discussion session will be Saturday 8th January 10pm. We'll discuss puzzle number 1.
  2. Communication theory reading group: Abel, Kenza. Chapters 16, 25, 48, and 47 in Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms.
  3. Computer programming: aim to study interesting problems with the help of C, octave, perl; making numerous mistakes along the way, so as to demonstrate how to debug; and trying to illustrate good programming style.
  4. Physics: possible plans:
    1. Revisit microscopic/entropy derivation of statistical physics and thermodynamics
    2. Perturbation theory

Monday 27th - Friday 31st December
MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
Morning
10. Monte Carlo methods
11.30 More Structured modelling
10. Monte Carlo methods
11.30 Estimation Party
10. Monte Carlo
10. More Structured modelling
11.30 Network modelling
10. Puzzles
Afternoon 2pm Physics 2pm Physics
Evening
6.45 Discussion: Democracy and Development
7.45 C programming
9pm Movie
6.45 Compression Assignment Discussion
7.45 Octave
9pm Movie
Python evening: volunteers bring an example program C++ (Nneoma)
& Java?

Do tell us what other classes you would like.

And feel free to grab us at any other time for individual discussions.