Events Archive: 2010 - Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Mechanistic models for the large-scale circulation in the ocean
Timour Radko - NPS Monterey
Monday, January 4, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
Generalized Fast Multipole Method
Professor Eric Darve - Mechanical Engineering, Stanford
Monday, January 11, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
On the use of Design of Experiments (DOE) in the development of manufacturing processes for biologics
Dr. Dan Coleman - Genentech
Monday, January 25, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
Advances in Bayesian model-based clustering
Dr. Daniel Merl - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Monday, February 1, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
The importance of scale for spatial-confounding bias and precision of spatial regression estimators
Prof. Chris Paciorek - Statistics,UC Berkeley and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Monday, February 8, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
The Roles of Vortices and Waves in the Fluid and Particle Dynamics of Planet and Star Formation
Prof. Phil Marcus - Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Monday, February 22, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
Delayed frequency dependence, immunology, and the paradox of virus diversity
Prof. Fred Adler - Mathematics, University of Utah
Monday, March 1, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
A numerical scheme for the perturbed linear-quadratic regulator problems
Prof. Coskun Cetin - Mathematics & Statistics, Cal. State Sacramento
Monday, March 8, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY - Advances in Bayesian Modeling for Emulation, Sensitivity Analysis, and Calibration of Computer Models
Marian Farah
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY - Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling for Extreme Value Analysis
Ziwei Wang
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
Conditional Subspace Clustering of Skill Mastery: Identifying Skills that Separate Students
Elizabeth Ayers, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley
Monday, March 29, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
Approximate Exchangeability
Persi Diaconis, Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford
Monday, April 5, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
Risk Measurement Alternatives For Event Driven Processes: The Search For VaR's Takeout
Craig Peters
Monday, April 12, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
Better numerical integration through random cooling schedules
Mark Huber, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Claremont McKen
Monday, April 19, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
Event-triggered and Self-triggered Control (THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED)
Paulo Tabuada, Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Monday, April 26, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
The Solar Cycle: Modelling and Predictability
Professor Steve Tobias, University of Leeds, UK
Monday, May 3, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Combining predictive process models and Laplace approximations for fast Bayesian analysis of spatial data
Professor Jo Eidsvik, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NTNU, Norway
Monday, May 10, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
Understanding Disease Resistance in Estuarine Populations and Response to Climate Change
Eileen E. Hofmann, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University
Monday, May 17, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
Optional Polya Tree and Bayesian inference
Wing Hung Wong, Professor of Statistics and of Health Research and Policy Stanford
Monday, May 24, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Information-driven Cooperative Sampling Strategies for Spatial Estimation by Robotic Sensor Networks
Rishi Graham
Friday, May 28, 2010, 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics (ISIMA). July 5th - August 13th 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010, 4:00 PM to 4:00 PM,
CBMS Regional Conference - Bayesian Nonparametric Statistical Methods: Theory and Applications. August 16-20, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010, 8:30 AM to 5:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
CBMS Regional Conference - Bayesian Nonparametric Statistical Methods: Theory and Applications
Monday, August 16, 2010, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM,
AMS Faculty Presentations
Marc Mangel, Bruno Sanso, Athanasios Kottas, Eric Anderson
Monday, September 27, 2010, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
AMS Faculty Presentations
Nicholas Brummell, Herbert Lee, Dejan Milutinovic, Raquel Prado
Monday, October 4, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
AMS Faculty Presentations
Hongyun Wang, David Draper, Qi Gong, Abel Rodriguez
Monday, October 11, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
A Modern Bayesian Look at the Multi-Armed Bandit
Dr. Steven Scott, Google
Monday, October 18, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Extreme events and selection on life-histories in a stream-dwelling salmonid
Simone Vincenzi, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Parma
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, Room 455
ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: A Language for Sequential Monte Carlo with Inference on SMRF Models
Jacob Colvin
Monday, October 25, 2010, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
A near-term trajectory-based airport surface operation
Dr. Yoon Jung, NASA Ames Research Center
Monday, October 25, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
Putting the pieces together: Patchy abundance data for long- term monitoring of (penguin) populations
Dr. Heather Lynch, University of Maryland
Monday, November 1, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Spacecraft Dynamics, Guidance and Control: analysis, simulations, experimentation
Dr. Marcello Romano, Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, November 8, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
Flexible Covariance Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models
Dr. Bala Rajaratnam, Stanford University, Department of Statistics
Monday, November 15, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180