Detection with scan and average likelihood ratio
Berkeley-Stanford Joint Colloquium at Berkeley | Tue, November 10, 2009 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | 60 Evans Hall
Speaker: Guenther Walther, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Scan statistics are the standard tool for a range of detection problems, such as the detection of spatial disease clusters. There have been a number of recent claims in the literature, based on empirical findings, that scan statistics are inferior to an approach that involves the average likelihood ratio. The talk will will look at this issue and derive some results and... More >
Statmap: A utility for the principled mapping of short reads to a reference genome
Statistics and Genomics Seminar | Thu, November 12, 2009 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: Nathan Boley, UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics
Next generation sequencing technologies have given rise to a host of assays that are able to quickly answer a diverse set of biological questions. These assays, which include RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, methyl-seq, Hi-C-seq, and DNase-seq are similar in that, at the end of a "*-seq" experiment, they result in a set of sequences, or 'reads', generated by the sequencing platform, and it is... More >
Tractable performance bounds for compressed sensing
Neyman Seminar | Wed, November 18, 2009 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: Alexandre d'Aspremont, Assistant Professor, Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University
Recent results in compressed sensing show that, under certain conditions, the sparsest solution to an underdetermined set of linear equations can be recovered by solving a linear program. These results either rely on computing sparse eigenvalues of the design matrix or on properties of its nullspace. So far, no tractable algorithm is known to test these conditions and most... More >
Statistics and Genomics Seminar: Wenyi Wang
Statistics and Genomics Seminar | Thu, November 19, 2009 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: Wenyi Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Genome Technology Center
Probability Seminar: Alexander Gamburd
Probability Seminar | Wed, December 02, 2009 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM | 330 Evans Hall
Speaker: Alexander Gamburd, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz
Neyman Seminar: Jon McAuliffe
Neyman Seminar | Thu, December 03, 2009 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: Jon McAuliffe, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Probability Seminar: Vladislav Kargin
Probability Seminar | Wed, December 09, 2009 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM | 330 Evans Hall
Speaker: Vladislav Kargin, Szego Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University