Schedule

The workshop consists of a series of talks, organized dinners, and enough time for discussions. See below for the complete program.

Aug. 5

Monday

16:00

Registration (hotel seminar room)

Afternoon session chair: Bernhard Schölkopf

16:30

Peter Spirtes
Bayes net perspectives on causation and causal inference

17:15

Coffee break

17:45

Thomas Richardson
Unifying the counterfactual and graphical approaches to causality via Single World Intervention Graphs (SWIGs)

18:30

Stephen F. LeRoy
Causality in economics

19:15

End of afternoon session

19:30

Dinner

21:00

Free discussions

Aug. 6

Tuesday

Morning session chair: Peter Spirtes

9:30

Bernhard Schölkopf
Causal inference and anticausal learning

10:15

Alison Gopnik
How children learn about causes: Search, sampling and simulated annealing

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Wolfgang Spohn
Clearing up the murky issue of frame-relative versus absolute causation

12:15

Lunch (on your own) and free discussions

Afternoon session chair: Michael Waldmann

16:00

Patricia Cheng
Causal invariance in intuitive and scientific causal inference

16:45

Coffee break

17:15

Dominik Janzing
What does `strong causal influence' mean?

18:00

James Woodward
Interactions between philosophical theories of causation and empirical research on causal judgment

18:45

End of afternoon session

19:30

Dinner

21:00

Free discussions

Aug. 7

Wednesday

Morning session chair: James Woodward

9:30

Michael Waldmann
Agents and causes: Reconciling competing theories of causal reasoning

10:15

Chris Hitchcock
Actual causation: Looking backward and looking forward

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Malcolm R. Forster
Evidence for probabilistic hypotheses: With applications to causal modeling

12:15

Lunch (on your own) and free discussions

Afternoon session chair: Malcolm R. Forster

16:00

Jiji Zhang
Weakening the causal faithfulness assumption

16:45

Coffee break

17:15

Joachim M. Buhmann
What is the information content of an algorithm?

18:00

Kun Zhang
Causal discovery with functional causal models: Different types of "independence"

18:45

End of afternoon session

19:30

Dinner

21:00

Free discussions

Aug. 8

Thursday

Morning session chair: Joachim M. Buhmann

9:00

Aapo Hyvärinen
Estimation of structural equation models using non-Gaussianity

9:45

Frederick Eberhardt
Path constraints for causal discovery

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Naoki Tanaka
Estimation of causal direction in the presence of latent confounders using a Bayesian LiNGAM mixture model

11:30

Closing remarks

11:45

End of the workshop