Seminars
The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of the Whiting School of Engineering on the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University hosts a weekly colloquium on Thursdays at 1:30 PM on the third floor of Whitehead Hall, Room 304. (Followed by refreshments at 2:30 PM in Room 301.)
Seminars are held in 304 Whitehead Hall unless otherwise noted. Here are directions to the Homewood Campus and to Whitehead Hall. You can subscribe to email announcements of our seminars.
Seminars Schedule
for Spring 2012
Thursday, February 2 2012
Ed Scheinerman (Johns Hopkins University)
The Implict Representations of Graphs Conjecture
Thursday, February 9 2012
Cancelled
Tuesday, February 14
Amitabh Basu (University of California, Davis)
Corner Polyhedra and Maximal Lattice-free Convex Bodies : A Fresh
Geometric Approach to Cutting Plane theory
Thursday, February 16 2012
Anke van Zuylen (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
The Subtour LP for the Traveling Salesman Problem
Tuesday, February 21 2012
Gwen Spencer (Cornell University)
Optimally Fragmenting Graphs Against Stochastically-located Threats: Containing Wildfire, Invasive Species, and Epidemics
Thursday, February 23 2012
Rico Zenklusen (MIT)
Tackling Hard Combinatorial Optimization Problems via Negatively Correlated Rounding
Tuesday, February 28 2012
Sergey Nadtochiy (Oxford-Man Institute)
Quantitative Methods for Derivatives Markets Consistent with Historical Observations
Thursday, March 1 2012 - KRIEGER 205
James Primbs (Stanford University)
Portfolio Optimization under Transaction Costs via Linear-Quadratic and Receding Horizon Methods
Tuesday, March 6 2012
Stephan Sturm (Princeton University)
From Smile Wings to Market Risk Measures
Thursday, March 8 2012
James R. Wilson (North Carolina State)
SKART: A SKEWNESS- AND AUTOREGRESSION-ADJUSTED BATCH-MEANS PROCEDURE FOR SIMULATION ANALYSIS
Thursday, March 15 2012
Casey Richardson (Johns Hopkins University)
Measure Matching Using Metamorphosis
Thursday, March 22 2012
Spring Break
No Seminar
Thursday, March 29 2012
Sri Sarma (Johns Hopkins University)
Quickest Detection of Drug-Resistant Seizures Using Network-Based Analysis
Thursday, April 5 2012
Frank Curtis (Lehigh University)
Nonconvex, Nonsmooth Optimization by Gradient Sampling
Tuesday, April 10 2012
Alan Karr (National Institute of Statistical Sciences)
Combining Cohorts in Longitudinal Surveys,
with Application to the Survey of Doctorate Recipients
Thursday, April 12 2012 & Friday, April 13 2012
The Duncan Lectures 2012
Gérard Ben Arous (New York University)
Counting critical points of random functions of many variables - Krieger Hall 205 - 1:30pm 4/12/12
RMT^2: Random Morse Theory meets Random Matrix Theory - Gilman 50 - 9:00am 4/13/12
Thursday, April 19 2012
Daniel Ullman (George Washington University)
A Whirlwind Tour of Combinatorial Game Theory
Thursday, April 26 2012
Rafael Irizarry (Johns Hopkins University)
Bump Hunting in the Cancer Epigenome
Tuesday, May 1 2012
Sergio M. Focardi (EDHEC Business School)
Comparing Dynamic Factor Models of Prices and Returns
Thursday, May 3 2012
Jim Fill (Johns Hopkins University)
Comparison Inequalities and Fastest-Mixing Markov Chains - Click here for Slides