| Education |
1987-1993
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
MS physics
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Thesis: Asymptotically flat universes have positive total
energy Supervisor:
Prof.
G. 't Hooft
1993-1998
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
Ph.D. Theoretical physics
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Thesis: Gravity in 2+1 dimensions
Supervisor: Prof. G. 't Hooft
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| Teaching |
1987-1998
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
Assistant
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physics for biologists
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statistical mechanics
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analysis & algebra
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quantum mechanics
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electrodynamics
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classical mechanics
spring 2000
Caltech
Pasadena, USA
Lecturer
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Latent variable models for engineers
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| Employment |
1998-2000
Vision Lab, Caltech
Pasadena, USA
Postdoctoral Scholar
Supervisor: Prof. P. Perona
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Award: 3 year stipendium from the Sloan-Foundation.
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| Research
interests |
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robust statistics
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independent component analysis
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nonlinear inference, density estimation.
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pattern recognition
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statistical modeling
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| Publications
Physics |
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M. Welling, Gravity in 2+1 dimensions as a Riemann-Hilbert
problem, 1996, Class. Quant. Grav. 13, 653.
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M. Welling, Some approaches to 2+1 dimensional gravity
coupled to point particles, 1996, Proceedings of the 7th
summer school: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Kazan, Russia.
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M. Welling & M. Bijlsma, Pauli-Lubanski scalar in
the polygon approach to 2+1 dimensional gravity, 1996, Class. Quant.
Grav. 13, 1769.
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M. Welling, The torus universe in the polygon approach
to 2+1 dimensional gravity, 1997, Class. Quant. Grav. 14, 929.
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M. Welling, One particle quantum mechanics in 2+1 gravity
using non-commuting coordinates, 1997, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)
57, 346.
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M. Welling, Two particle quantum mechanics in 2+1 gravity
using non-commuting coordinates, 1997, Class. Quant. Grav. 14, 3313.
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M. Welling, Winding solutions for the two particle system
in 2+1 gravity, 1998, Class. Quant. Grav. 15, 613.
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M. Welling, Explicit solutions for point particles and
black holes in space of constant curvature in 2+1 dimensional gravity,
1998, Nucl. Phys. B, 515.
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H.J. Matschull & M.Welling, Quantum mechanics of a
point particle in 2+1 dimensional gravity, 1998, Class. Quant. Grav.
15, 1998, 2981.
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Publications
Engineering |
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M. Welling & M. Weber, Independent component analysis
of incomplete data, Proceedings of the 6th joint symposium
on neural computation, May 1999, UCSD.
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M. Welling & M. Weber, A constrained EM algorithm
for independent component analysis, submitted to neural computation.
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M. Welling, Robust series expansions for probability density
estimation, submitted to neural computation.
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M. Weber, M. Welling & P. Perona, Unsupervised learning
of models for visual object class recognition, Proceedings of the 6th
joint symposium on neural computation, May 1999, UCSD.
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M. Weber, W. Einhauser, M. Welling & P.Perona,
Viewpoint-invariant
detection of human heads, proceedings 4th IEEE int. conf. automatic
face and gesture recognition.
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M. Weber, M. Welling & P.Perona, Learning mixtures
of object models from unlabeled cluttered scenes, submitted to CVPR2000.
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M. Weber, M.Welling & P.Perona, Unsupervised learning
of models for visual object class recognition, submitted to ECCV2000.
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M. Welling & M. Weber, Positive Tensor Factorization,
submitted to RECPAD2000.
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M. Welling & M. Weber, Dryden-Mardia density estimation,
in
preparation.
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M. Welling & B. Klein, Diagrammatic expansions in
graphical models for statistical inference: the Feynman machine, in
preparation.
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