Speaker Jesus De Loera University of California, Davis https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~deloera/ Description Linear programming is undeniably a central software tool of applied mathematics and a source...
Speaker Elizabeth Gross NCSU/SJSU http://homepages.math.uic.edu/~lizgross/Home.html Description One research thread in algebraic statistics is focused on hidden Markov models, particularly in the...
Speaker Aleksandra Slavkovic Penn State Statistics Department http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~sesa/ Description Increasing volumes of personal and sensitive data are collected and archived by health...
Description The many bases of an integer lattice. Intro to Groebner bases, and an algorithm for Markov bases. Event Topic Nonlinear Algebra and Statistics (NLASTATS)
Event Topic Nonlinear Algebra and Statistics (NLASTATS)
Description Continuation: section 1.2: Higher-order contingency tables. Conditional distributions. Markov bases : definition and uses. Suggested background reading: Fisher's exact test. Event Topic...
Description Introduction to hypothesis testing for contingency tables. (Based on the material from sections 1.1 and 1.2 from ``Lectures on Algebraic Statistics"; book available electronically through...
Speaker Mustafa Bilgic IIT Computer Science http://www.cs.iit.edu/~mbilgic/ Description A fundamental task of machine learning is prediction, where a model is built using existing input-output pairs...
