Causal Analysis in Theory and Practice

February 1, 2016

Workshop on Statistical Causal Inference and its Applications to Genetics

Filed under: Announcement — bryantc @ 11:50 pm

We received the following announcement from Robin Evans (University of Oxford):

Statistical Causal Inference and its Applications to Genetics, to be held at CRM in Montreal, July 2529 2016.

Additional information can be found here: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/2016/Genetics16/index_e.php

Dear Colleagues,

We are very excited to announce a week long workshop in Statistical Causal Inference and its Applications to Genetics, to be held at CRM in Montreal, July 2529 2016.

We seek participants from Statistics and Biology to discuss the cutting-edge inferential causal problems in the discipline. Points for discussion will include

– modern datasets in genetics,
– methods to deal with huge quantities of data from multiple experimental settings,
– hypothesis generation from limited experimental data,
– efficient experimental design,
– incorporation of prior information in a computationally tractable way,
– causal methods for time series data,
– Mendelian randomization,

We strongly encourage the participation of junior researchers, and invite the submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations. To register your interest in participating or presenting please visit our website.

Invited speakers include:

Elias Bareinboim (Purdue University)
Tom Claassen (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Denver Dash (University of Pittsburgh)
Philip Dawid (University of Cambridge)
Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol)
Frederick Eberhardt (Caltech)
Michael Eichler (Maastricht University)
Julien Gagneur (LMU, Gene Center)
Celia Greenwood (Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research)
Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
Dominik Janzing (Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems)
Samantha Kleinberg (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Aurélie Labbe (McGill University)
Steffen Lauritzen (University of Oxford)
Po-Ling Loh (University of Pennsylvania)
Sisi Ma (New York University)
Daniel Marbach (Université de Lausanne)
John Marioni (EMBL-EBI)
Lawrence McCandless (Simon Fraser University)
Joris Mooij (AMLab, University of Amsterdam)
Dana Pe’er (Columbia University )
Jonas Peters (MPI for Intelligent Systems)
Garvesh Raskutti (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Thomas S. Richardson (University of Washington)
James Robins (Harvard School of Public Health)
Olli Saarela (University of Toronto)
Karen Sachs (Stanford University)
Shohei Shimizu (Osaka University)
Ricardo Silva (UCL)
George Davey Smith (University of Bristol)
Peter Spirtes (Carnegie Mellon University)
Oliver Stegle (EMBL-EBI)
Simon Tavare (University of Cambridge )
Jin Tian (Iowa State University)
Achim Tresch (Max Planck Institute)
Ioannis Tsamardinos (ICS – FORTH)

Best regards,

The organisers:

Robin Evans, University of Oxford
Chris Holmes, University of Oxford
Marloes Maathuis, ETH Zurich
Erica Moodie, McGill
Ilya Shpitser, Johns Hopkins
David Stephens, McGill
Caroline Uhler, MIT

We’re very grateful to the workshop sponsors: CRM, CANSSI and PIMS.

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