Spring 2012
Location: G01 Biotechnology Building
Time: 4:15pm - 5:15pm
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Wednesday, January 25
"Convex Regularization Algorithms for Learning Large Incomplete Matrices"
Rahul Mazumder, Stanford University
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Wednesday, February 01
"Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Penalized Functional Regression"
Jeff Goldsmith, Johns Hopkins University
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Wednesday, February 08
"Optimal Sparse Signal Identification with Applications in Copy Number Variation Analysis"
X. Jessie Jeng, University of Pennsylvania
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Wednesday, February 15
"Adaptive Confidence Intervals for Non-regular Parameters"
Susan Murphy, University of Michigan
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Wednesday, February 22
"Optimizing Randomized Trial Designs to Distinguish which Subpopulations Benefit from Treatment"
Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University
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Thursday, February 23
"Sparse Hierarchical Interactions"
Jacob Bien, Stanford University
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Wednesday, February 29
"Modulated Oscillations"
Sofia Olhede, University College London
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Wednesday, March 07
"Detecting Evolution in Experimental Ecology: Diagnostics for Missing State Variables"
Giles Hooker, Cornell University
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Wednesday, March 14
"eBird: Statistical Modeling of Citizen Science Bird Data"
Daniel Fink, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Wednesday, March 28
"Statistical Applications in Banking"
Nicholas Kiefer, Cornell University
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Friday, April 06
"Understanding a global network: research at Facebook"
Thomas Lento, Facebook
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Wednesday, April 11
"How Many Modes Can a Gaussian Mixture Have?"
Surajit Ray, Boston University
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Wednesday, April 18
"Lasso Prediction and Correlations"
Johannes Lederer, ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute for Technology
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Wednesday, May 02
"High-Dimensional Statistics and Convex Programming: Unreasonably Fast Convergence of First-Order Gradient Methods"
Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley
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