Aug. 5
Monday
Registration (hotel seminar room)
Afternoon session chair: Bernhard Schölkopf
16:30Peter Spirtes
Bayes net perspectives on causation and causal inference
Coffee break
17:45Thomas Richardson
Unifying the counterfactual and graphical approaches to causality via Single World Intervention Graphs (SWIGs)
Stephen F. LeRoy
Causality in economics
End of afternoon session
19:30Dinner
Free discussions
Aug. 6
Tuesday
Morning session chair: Peter Spirtes
9:30Bernhard Schölkopf
Causal inference and anticausal learning
Alison Gopnik
How children learn about causes: Search, sampling and simulated annealing
Coffee break
11:30Wolfgang Spohn
Clearing up the murky issue of frame-relative versus absolute causation
Lunch (on your own) and free discussions
Afternoon session chair: Michael Waldmann
16:00Patricia Cheng
Causal invariance in intuitive and scientific causal inference
Coffee break
17:15Dominik Janzing
What does `strong causal influence' mean?
James Woodward
Interactions between philosophical theories of causation and empirical research on causal judgment
End of afternoon session
19:30Dinner
21:00Free discussions
Aug. 7
Wednesday
Morning session chair: James Woodward
9:30Michael Waldmann
Agents and causes: Reconciling competing theories of causal reasoning
Chris Hitchcock
Actual causation: Looking backward and looking forward
Coffee break
11:30Malcolm R. Forster
Evidence for probabilistic hypotheses:
With applications to causal modeling
Lunch (on your own) and free discussions
Afternoon session chair: Malcolm R. Forster
16:00Jiji Zhang
Weakening the causal faithfulness assumption
Coffee break
17:15Joachim M. Buhmann
What is the information content of an algorithm?
Kun Zhang
Causal discovery with functional causal models: Different types of "independence"
End of afternoon session
19:30Dinner
21:00Free discussions
Aug. 8
Thursday
Morning session chair: Joachim M. Buhmann
9:00Aapo Hyvärinen
Estimation of structural equation models using non-Gaussianity
Frederick Eberhardt
Path constraints for causal discovery
Coffee break
11:00Naoki Tanaka
Estimation of causal direction in the presence of latent confounders using a Bayesian LiNGAM mixture model
Closing remarks
11:45End of the workshop