Colloquium- April 24, 2014

Thursday, April 24, 2014 (4:00 - 5:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: The More, the Merrier: the Blessing of Dimensionality for Learning Large Gaussian Mixtures Speaker: Luis Rademacher (The Ohio State University) Abstract: I will discuss recent developments in high dimensional geometric statistical inference. The problems will include the reconstruction of polytopes from uniformly random...

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Colloquium- April 18, 2014

Friday, April 18, 2014 (3:00 - 4:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: The Ginzburg - Landau Functional and Threshold Dynamics on Graphs for Large Data Analysis Speaker: Andrea L. Bertozzi (UCLA) Abstract: Geometric methods have revolutionized the field of image processing and image analysis. I will review some of these classical methods including image snakes,...

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