MCS 595 Graduate Seminar, Spring 2010

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

Seminars organized in previous semesters: