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Information, Value, Modeling, and Inference Workshop
Thursday–Friday, September 12–13, 2024
Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Washington, DC 

Dean Linda Aldoory delivers welcoming remarks to workshop attendeesWelcoming remarks: Professor Linda Aldoory, Dean, CAS, Â鶹ÊÓƵ

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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ 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.

Round table speakers discussing in front of graph on projector screenRound Table I: Potential Value of Information and Data. In the photo (from left to right): Ariel Caticha, Amos Golan, Radu Balan, Raphael Levin, and Min Chen.

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

Workshop Program

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Abstracts and Proceedings

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Sponsors

Speakers

Plenary Invited Speakers


  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Wikipedia)

  • University of Florida (Wikipedia)

Invited Speakers and Sessions
& Info-Metrics Affiliates

  • , Michigan State University
  • , University of Maryland
  • , SUNY Albany
  • , University of Oxford
  • , University of Montreal
  • , University of Oklahoma
  • , New School for Social Research
  • , Emory College of Arts & Science
  • , San Diego State University
  • , University of Girona
  • , Ohio State University 

Panelists listen to audience questionsSession IV: Social Science Applications of Info-Metrics. In the photo (from left to right): Paulo dos Santos, Tinatin Mumladze, Doguhan Sundal, and Jangho Yang.

Other Confirmed Speakers

  • , United States Air Force Academy
  • , University of Oxford
  • , Wesleyan University
  • , University of Aveiro
  • , University of Aveiro
  • , The New School for Social Research
  • , The New School for Social Research
  • , University of Utah
  • , California State University
  • , University of Waterloo
Session VII: Info-Metrics and Applied Econometrics and Statistics. In the photo (from left to right): Marine Carrasco, Maria Costa, and Esfandiar Maasoumi.

Program Committee

  • Workshop Co-Chair: , Department of Engineering Science, U Oxford (Fellow, Pembroke College)
  • Workshop Co-Chair: , Info-metrics Institute, Department of Economics, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Santa-Fe (External)
  • Workshop Co-Chair: , Department of Economics, Emory College of Arts & Sciences
  • , Laboratory of Biophysics and Cancer Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • , The New School of Social Research and Santa-Fe (External)
  • , Department of Physics, The State University of New York at Albany
  • , Department of Physics, Emory University
  • , School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
  • , Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley
  • , International Food Policy Research Institute
  • , Department of Economics, Washington University of St. Louis
  • , Department of Economics, McMaster University

Audience member asks question during Info-Metrics Workshop

Another audience question during Info-Metrics Workshop

Audience member asks question during Info-Metrics Workshop