| Date |
Speaker |
Feb. 7
|
Organizational Meeting
[internal]
|
Feb. 14
|
Mauro Maggioni - [webpage] Duke
University (Multiscale
analysis of diffusion processes on graphs and analysis of
high-dimensional data) |
| Feb. 21 |
Murad Taqqu - [webpage] Boston
University (Dependence
structures of some infinite variance stochastic processes) |
Feb. 28
|
Kush
Varshney -
SSG, MIT (Discussion
on genomics) and
Venkat Chandrasekaran-
SSG, MIT (Discussion
of survey propagation)
|
Mar. 7
|
CANCELED |
Mar. 14
|
Dan Roy - MIT (Learning
annotated hierarchies from relational data) and Vikash
Mansinghka
- MIT (Stochastic
Logic Circuits for Inductive Inference)
|
Mar. 21
|
Piotr
Indyk - [webpage]
MIT (Explicit
constructions for compressed sensing problems) |
Mar. 28
|
Spring Break [No Meeting]
|
| Apr. 4 |
Martin Wainwright
- [webpage] UC
Berkeley (High-dimensional
statistical inference: Practical and Information-theoretic limits on
sparsity recovery) |
Apr. 11
|
Munther Dahleh -
[webpage] LIDS, MIT (Reduction
of Hidden Markov Models) |
Apr. 18
|
CANCELED Ben Vigoda -
[webpage] MERL |
Apr. 25
|
Amir Globerson -
[webpage] MIT,
CSAIL (Approximate
Inference using Conditional Entropy Decompositions) |
May 2
|
Peter Willett -
[webpage]
University of Connecticut (A
Physical-Space Approach for the Probability
Hypothesis Density and Cardinalized PHD Filters) |
May 9
|
David Blei - [webpage] Princeton
University (Variational
inference for Dirichlet process mixtures) |
May 16
|
Group Party
[internal].
|
May 23
|
Final exam week.
|
