ims.24

Sponsor(s): IMS

Session Time: 2:00- 3:50 Monday

Estimated Audience Size: 125-175

A/V Request: None or Two Overheads

Session Title: Information Theory

Theme Session: No $\quad$ Applied Session: No

Organizer: Yu, Bin  

Session Timing: Opening Remarks by Chair - 5 or 0 minutes First Speaker - 30 minutes (or 25) Second Speaker - 30 minutes Third Speaker - 30 minutes Discussant - 10 minutes (or none) Floor Discusion - 10 minutes (or 5 or 15)

Chair: Hansen, Mark  

1. Information Theoretic Methods in Statistics $\quad$ Csiszár, Imre  

2. Model Selection and Hypothesis Testing by the MDL Principle $\quad$ Rissanen, Jorma  

3. Information and the Clone Mapping of Chromosomes $\quad$ Yu, Bin  

$\quad$ Speed, Terry  

List of speakers who are nonmembers: