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Information, Value, Modeling, and Inference Workshop
Thursday–Friday, September 12–13, 2024
American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ, Washington, DC 

Dean Linda Aldoory delivers welcoming remarks to workshop attendeesWelcoming remarks: Professor Linda Aldoory, Dean, CAS, American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ

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 Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ 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 Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Jerusalem (Wikipedia)

  • Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Florida (Wikipedia)

Invited Speakers and Sessions
& Info-Metrics Affiliates

  • , Michigan State Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Maryland
  • , SUNY Albany
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Oxford
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Montreal
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Oklahoma
  • , New School for Social Research
  • , Emory College of Arts & Science
  • , San Diego State Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Girona
  • , Ohio State Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ 

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
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Oxford
  • , Wesleyan Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Aveiro
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Aveiro
  • , The New School for Social Research
  • , The New School for Social Research
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah
  • , California State Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
  • , Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ 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, American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ and Santa-Fe (External)
  • Workshop Co-Chair: , Department of Economics, Emory College of Arts & Sciences
  • , Laboratory of Biophysics and Cancer Research, The Hebrew Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Jerusalem
  • , The New School of Social Research and Santa-Fe (External)
  • , Department of Physics, The State Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of New York at Albany
  • , Department of Physics, Emory Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ
  • , School of Social Sciences, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of Manchester
  • , Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of California at Berkeley
  • , International Food Policy Research Institute
  • , Department of Economics, Washington Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ of St. Louis
  • , Department of Economics, McMaster Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ

Audience member asks question during Info-Metrics Workshop

Another audience question during Info-Metrics Workshop

Audience member asks question during Info-Metrics Workshop