Neyman Seminar-Statistics 278B-Fall 2005
Generally Wednesdays 16:00-17:00 in 1011 Evans.
Coffee and Cake beforehand in 1011 Evans

Dates and Speakers



Sep 7

Serban Nacu, Statistics, Stanford

Probability with Ants  [abstract]

Sep 14

Jari Kaipio, Applied Physics, U. of Kuopio
Recent results in modelling of approximation errors in inverse problems [abstract]

Sep 21

Laszlo Szekely, Mathematics, South Carolina

Teasing apart two trees [abstract]

Sep 28

Tong Zhang, Yahoo

Graph based Semi-supervised Learning and Spectral Kernel Design [abstract]
Oct 5 Luca Trevisan, Computer Science, Berkeley
Pseudorandomness and combinatorial constructions [abstract]

Oct 12

Bernd Sturmfels, Mathematics, Berkeley
Algebraic Factor Analysis: Tetrads, Pentads and Beyond [abstract]

Oct 19

David Chandler, Chemistry, Berkeley

Dynamics on the way to forming glass; making bubbles in space-time

Oct 26

Andrew Lim, IEOR, Berkeley

Relative performance approach to robust portfolio selection abstract.

Nov 2

George Tseng, Bio Statistics and Human Genetics, U. Pittsburgh

A generalized form of K-means  [abstract]
Nov 9 David van Dyk, Statistics, Irvine
Highly Structured Models, High-Energy Astrophysics, and Efficient Computation [abstract]
Please contact Debbie Haaxman (debbie at stat dot Berkeley dot EDU) if you want to meet with the speaker or join dinner on Wed.

Nov 16

Craig Moritz,  Museum of Vertebrate Biology, Berkeley

Challenges in historical biogeography - reading the molecular tea-leaves

Nov 23

No seminar -- Thanks Giving Weekend

Nov 30

Saharon Rosset,  I.B.M. Research

TBA

Dec 7

Tom Gingeras,  Affymetrix

Transcripts of Uknown Function in Eukaryotic Cells: Lessons Forgotten and Re-Learned 

Abstarct


Enquiries: Elchanan Mossel: mossel at stat dot berkeley dot edu

23 Aug 2005