MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2010
Usually, we meet on Thursdays in SEO 612 at 11AM.
The theme of this semester is Algebraic Statistics.
- Thu 13 Jan: Sonja Petrovic on Computational Challenges
in Algebraic Statistics.
- Thu 20 Jan: Sonja Petrovic on Computational Challenges
in Algebraic Statistics (continued from last time).
- Thu 20 Jan: Sonja Petrovic on Maximum Likelihood and
Identifiability Equations - an example.
- Thu 4 Feb: Jan Verschelde on Homotopies for Problems
in Algebraic Statistics.
- Thu 11 Feb: Anton Leykin (Georgia Tech) on Using Groebner bases in
rings of linear partial differential operators.
- Thu 18 Feb: Elizabeth Gross on
Maximum Likelihood Degree of Gaussian Cycles.
- Thu 25 Feb: Olga Kashcheyeva
on the Maximum Likelihood Degree Conjecture for Gaussian Cycles.
- Thu 4 Mar: Jan Verschelde on Polyhedral Saturation to
solve the Maximum Likelihood Equations.
- Thu 11 Mar: Jie Yang on Optimal Designs for Factorial
Experiments and Polynomial Equations.
- Thu 18 Mar: Anna Magdalena Kedzierksa (Bioinformatics
and Genomics, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park; and Polytechnic
Univ. of Catalonia) on Model Selection for Mixture Models.
- Thu 1 Apr: Sonja Petrovic on Identifiability of
phylogenetic mixtures.
- Thu 8 Apr: Mathias Drton (University of Chicago)
on Random Effect Models.
- Thu 15 Apr: Julia Chifman (Mathematical Biosciences Institute):
Use of phylogenetic invariants to estimate species trees under the
coalescent model.
- Thu 29 Apr: Elizabeth Gross
Seminars organized in previous semesters:
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2009
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2009
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2008
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2008
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2007
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2006
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2005
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2005
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2004
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2004
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MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Fall 2003