1815 San Pasqual street apt. A
Pasadena, CA 91107,  USA
E-mail: welling@vision.caltech.edu
phone: 626-3954866
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  Max Welling

Education  1987-1993                    Utrecht University                     Utrecht,  Netherlands

MS physics

  • Thesis: Asymptotically flat universes have positive total energy         Supervisor: Prof. G. 't Hooft


1993-1998                    Utrecht University                     Utrecht, Netherlands

Ph.D. Theoretical physics

  • Thesis: Gravity in 2+1 dimensions                                                        Supervisor: Prof. G. 't Hooft
Teaching 1987-1998                    Utrecht University                      Utrecht, Netherlands

Assistant

  • physics for biologists
  • statistical mechanics
  • analysis & algebra 
  • quantum mechanics 
  • electrodynamics 
  • classical mechanics


spring 2000                   Caltech                                         Pasadena, USA

Lecturer

  • Latent variable models for engineers
Employment 1998-2000                  Vision Lab, Caltech                      Pasadena, USA

Postdoctoral Scholar

              Supervisor: Prof. P. Perona 

  • Award: 3 year stipendium from the Sloan-Foundation.
Research interests
  • robust statistics
  • independent component analysis
  • nonlinear inference, density estimation.
  • pattern recognition 
  • statistical modeling
 
Publications Physics
  • M. Welling, Gravity in 2+1 dimensions as a Riemann-Hilbert problem, 1996, Class. Quant. Grav. 13, 653.
  • 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.
  • M. Welling & M. Bijlsma, Pauli-Lubanski scalar in the polygon approach to 2+1 dimensional gravity, 1996, Class. Quant. Grav. 13, 1769.
  • M. Welling, The torus universe in the polygon approach to 2+1 dimensional gravity, 1997, Class. Quant. Grav. 14, 929.
  • M. Welling, One particle quantum mechanics in 2+1 gravity using non-commuting coordinates, 1997, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 57, 346. 
  • M. Welling, Two particle quantum mechanics in 2+1 gravity using non-commuting coordinates, 1997, Class. Quant. Grav. 14, 3313.
  • M. Welling, Winding solutions for the two particle system in 2+1 gravity, 1998, Class. Quant. Grav. 15, 613.
  • 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.
  • H.J. Matschull & M.Welling, Quantum mechanics of a point particle in 2+1 dimensional gravity, 1998, Class. Quant. Grav. 15, 1998, 2981.
Publications
Engineering
  • M. Welling & M. Weber, Independent component analysis of incomplete data, Proceedings of the 6th joint symposium on neural computation, May 1999, UCSD.
  • M. Welling & M. Weber, A constrained EM algorithm for independent component analysis, submitted to neural computation.
  • M. Welling, Robust series expansions for probability density estimation, submitted to neural computation.
  • 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.
  • M.  Weber, W. Einhauser, M. Welling & P.Perona, Viewpoint-invariant detection of human heads, proceedings 4th IEEE int. conf. automatic face and gesture recognition.
  •  M. Weber, M. Welling & P.Perona, Learning mixtures of object models from unlabeled cluttered scenes, submitted to CVPR2000.
  • M. Weber, M.Welling & P.Perona, Unsupervised learning of models for visual object class recognition, submitted to ECCV2000.
  • M. Welling & M. Weber, Positive Tensor Factorization, submitted to RECPAD2000.
  • M. Welling & M. Weber, Dryden-Mardia density estimation, in preparation.
  • M. Welling & B. Klein, Diagrammatic expansions in graphical models for statistical inference: the Feynman machine, in preparation.