Seminar Calendar
October 2011
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Sharp Thresholds in Statistical Learning
Andrea Montanari,
Associate Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Statistics,
Stanford University,
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
Raffle-Based Incentive Schemes for Congestion Management
Patrick Loiseau,
UC Santa Cruz / UC Berkeley,
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Chi-Square and Classical Exact Tests Often Wildly Misreport Significance; the Remedy Lies in Computers
Rachel Ward,
Assistant Professor / Harrington Fellow,
Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics
Resonant Actuation of a Model of DNA Division
Wang Sang Koon,
Senior Scientist,
Control and Dynamical Systems ,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Rigorous Systems Research Group (RSRG) Seminar
High Dimensional Graphical Model Selection: Tractable Graph Families and Parameter Regimes
Animashree Anandkumar,
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Irvine,
Monday, October 17th, 2011
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Mathematics in Financial World: Practical Modelling and Trading
Wendong Qu,
Senior Vice President,
PIMCO,
Gang Hu,
Managing Director,
Credit Suisse, London,
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
4:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Inverse Problems for Non-Self-Adjoint Operators
Mark Embree,
Professor,
Computational and Applied Mathematics,
Rice University,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture
Fast Global Convergence of Gradient Methods for High-Dimensional Statistical Recovery
Sahand Negahban,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
UC Berkeley,
Monday, October 31st, 2011
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Optimization of Polynomial Roots, Eigenvalues and Pseudospectra
Michael Overton,
Professor,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University,