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Statistics Seminars

Spring 2013

Location: G01 Biotechnology Building

Time: 4:15pm - 5:15pm

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Wednesday, February 13
"Algebraic Properties and Large Covariance Estimation"
Xi Luo, Brown University

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Wednesday, February 20
"Structured Estimation in High-Dimensions"
Sahand Negahban, MIT

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Wednesday, February 27
"Some Recent Progress on High Dimensional Sparse Estimation with Concave Regularization"
Tong Zhang, Rutgers University

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Wednesday, March 06
"Laplace Deconvolution and Its Application to Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Imaging"
Marianna Pensky, University of Central Florida

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Wednesday, March 13
"Hierarchical Clustering with Prototypes via Minimax Linkage"
Jacob Bien, Cornell University

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Wednesday, March 27
"Large Average Submatrices of a Gaussian Random Matrix: Landscapes and Local Optima"
Andrew Nobel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Wednesday, April 03
"The Statistical Price to Pay for Computational Efficiency in Sparse PCA"
Philippe Rigollet, Princeton University

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Wednesday, April 10
"Differentially Private Graphical Degree Sequences and Synthetic Graphs"
Aleksandra Slavkovic, Penn State Univeristy

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Wednesday, April 17
"Isotonic Modeling: Methodology and Applications"
Saharon Rosset, Tel Aviv University

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Wednesday, April 24
"Principal Component Analysis: Regularization and Asymptotics"
Haipeng Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Thursday, April 25
"A Significance Test for the Lasso"
Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University

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Wednesday, May 01
"Convergence Analysis of the Gibbs Sampler for Bayesian General Linear Mixed Models with Improper Priors"
Jim Hobert, University of Florida

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Wednesday, May 08
"Limiting Spectral Distribution of Sample Covariance and Autocovariance Matrices for a Class of Large Dimensional Time Series"
Debashis Paul, University of California, Davis

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Wednesday, May 15
"Validation of k-NN Classifiers and Pricing Information"
Eric Bax, Yahoo, Inc.

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