Past Seminars
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
NO SEMINAR
Thursday, February 05, 2005
Laurent Younes
Smoothing in the dual
space; Applications to vector fields and frames
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Melvin Leok, Purdue University
Lie group and homogeneous
variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control
theory
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Dan Naiman, AM&S, Johns Hopkins University
Multivariate Records
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Anant Godbole, East Tennessee State University and Johns
Hopkins University
Omnibus Sequences
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Jay Rosen, the City University of New York
The $L^2$ modulus of continuity of local times of
Brownian motion
Thursday, March 12, 2009 Maryland 110
The 2009 Alan J. Goldman Lecture
Lisa Fleischer, Darthmouth
Submodular Approximation: Sampling-based Algorithms and
lower Bounds
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Trac Tran, Johns Hopkins University
Novel Compressed
Sensing Applications in Distributed Video Sensing and Error-Resilient
Video Transmission
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Jeffrey Leek, Johns Hopkins University
A general framework for multiple testing dependence
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Matt Feiszli
Weil-Peterson metric on plane curves
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Youngmi Hur, AM&S Johns Hopkins University
Design of
nonseparable $n$-D
biorthogonal wavelet
filter banks
Thursday, April 23, 2009 Remsen 1
The 2009 Duncan Lecture
Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University
Deformation based morphometry, random fields and multivariate linear models
Friday, April 24, 2009, 11:00AM
Mergenthaler 111
The 2009 Duncan Lecture
Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University
Integral geometry of random level sets
Thursday, April 30, 2009 Maryland 110
The 2009 SIMCA Seminar (joint seminar with the department of
Mathematics)
Robert McCann, McGill University
Extremal Doubly Stochastic Measures and Optimal Transportation
Friday, May 1, 2009, 4:00PMKrieger 302
The 2009 SIMCA Seminar (joint seminar with the department of
Mathematics)
Robert McCann, McGill University
Continuity, curvature, and the general covariance of optimal
transportation
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Francois-Xavier Vialard, ENS Cachan
From the Hamiltonian formulation of image matching to a general
shape diffusion model
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Marc Yor, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
An interpretation and some
extensions of Black-Scholes formula via last passage times of martingales
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Tim Leung, Johns Hopkins University
Exponential Utility Hedging with Optimal Stopping and Application to ESO
Valuation
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Edward Scheinerman, Johns Hopkins University
Random Threshold Graphs
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Mark Huber, Duke University
Perfect simulation of Matérn Type III point processes
Thursday, October 30, 2008
The 2008 John C. and Susan S.G. Wierman Lecture
William Christensen, Brigham Young University
Identifying pollution source locations for air
quality monitoring
Thursday, November 6, 2008 (CSEB B17)
The 2008 Wenk Lecture
Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Making
Forensic Science More Scientific: Statistics and the Evaluation Forensic Evidence
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Seth Guikema, Johns Hopkins University
Statistical Assessment of the Influence of Climate Change and Climate
Variability on Hurricane Hazards
Thursday, Novenber 20, 2008
Natalia Trayanova, Johns Hopkins University
Predictive Models of the Heart in Health and Disease
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Gregory Duffee, Jonhs Hopkins University
Information in (and not in) the term structure
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Ning Cai, Columbia University
JUMP DIFFUSION PROCESSES IN FINANCIAL MODELING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Yingying Li, The University of Chicago
ARE VOLATILITY ESTIMATORS ROBUST WITH RESPECT TO MODELING ASSUMPTIONS?
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Stephan R. Sain, University of Colorado Denver
MODELS AND MODELS: STATISTICAL APPROACHES TO COMBINING REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL OUTPUT
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
(4:00 PM in 304 Whitehead Hall)
Tim Siu-Tang Leung, Princeton University
UTILITY-BASED VALUATION OF EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
*CANCELED*: Thursday, February 14, 2008
Michael Ludkovski, University of Michigan
OPTIMAL STOPPING AND OPTIMAL SWITCHING FOR HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
(4:00 PM in 304 Whitehead Hall)
Vladislav Kargin, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
LATTICE OPTION PRICING BY MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INTERPOLATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Andrew B. Vizcarra, Purdue University
PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION UNDER STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
*CANCELED*: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
(4:00 PM in 304 Whitehead Hall)
Deniz Sezer, York University
INFORMATION REDUCTION VIA LEVEL CROSSINGS IN A CREDIT RISK MODEL
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Lowell Abrams, The George Washington University
PERIODICITY AND OTHER STRUCTURE IN A FAMILY OF NIM-LIKE ARRAYS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, March 4, 2008, student seminar
Xue (Mary) Lin, The Johns Hopkins University
RXA: ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION MICROARRAYS BASED ON EXPRESSION ORDERINGS
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Robert P. W. Duin, Delft University, The Netherlands
TRAINING CLASSIFIERS FOR NON-EUCLIDEAN DATA
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, student seminar
Joshua Vogelstein, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
MODEL-BASED OPTIMAL INFERENCE USING A SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO
EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM GIVEN NOISY AND INTERMITTENT
FLUORESCENCE IMAGING OF NEURAL ACTIVITY
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Donald Geman, The Johns Hopkins University
STATIONARY FEATURES AND CAT DETECTION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 27, 2008
no seminar
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Stéphanie Allassonnière, The Johns Hopkins University
REPRESENTATION AND STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF DEFORMABLE TEMPLATE MODELS
FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION AND COMPUTATIONAL ANATOMY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Laurent Younes, The Johns Hopkins University
METAMORPHOSIS: A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR METRIC REGISTRATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, student seminar
Elizabeth (Libby) Beer, The Johns Hopkins University
TORUS GRAPH INFERENCE FOR DETECTION OF LOCALIZED ACTIVITY
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Beryl Castello, The Johns Hopkins University
A MAXIMIN LOCATION PROBLEM HEURISTIC
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
4:00 PM in 111 Mergenthaler Hall
preceded by a reception at 3:00 PM in the Sherwood Room, Levering Union
SIMCA Colloquium
Lawrence Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley
A NONLINEAR PDE MODEL FOR LAKES AND RIVERS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 24, 2008
213 Hodson Hall
preceded by light refreshments at 3:30 PM in 301 Whitehead Hall
The 2008 Acheson J. Duncan Lecture
Yali Amit, The University of Chicago
STATISTICAL MODELS IN COMPUTER VISION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, April 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM
followed by a luncheon reception in 301 Whitehead Hall
Yali Amit, The University of Chicago
ESTIMATION OF DEFORMABLE OBJECT MODELS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 12:00 noon, student seminar
Valentina Staneva, The Johns Hopkins University
EXACT RECONSTRUCTION OF SPARSE SIGNALS FROM VERY FEW MEASUREMENTS
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, May 1, 2008
213 Hodson Hall
followed by a small reception in 301 Whitehead Hall
The Third John C. and Susan S. G. Wierman Lecture
Barry Nussbaum, United States Environmental Protection Agency
GREENHOUSE, WHITE HOUSE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS:
THE USE OF STATISTICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007, student seminar
Xugang Ye, The Johns Hopkins University
SEARCHING FOR A SHORTEST PATH IN A LARGE SPARSE GRAPH UNDER MEMORY LIMITATIONS:
A SUCCESSIVE MIXED BIDIRECTIONAL SEARCH METHOD
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Amy Lynne Shelton, The Johns Hopkins University
WHAT CAN POINTING ERRORS REALLY TELL US ABOUT SPATIAL REPRESENTATION?
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Rachel Karchin, The Johns Hopkins University
CLASSIFYING VARIANTS OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE IN CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEINS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Edward Scheinerman, The Johns Hopkins University
MODELS OF RANDOM GRAPHS: EDGE, VERTEX, AND VERTEX-EDGE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 11, 2007
205 Krieger Hall
Preceded by refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in 301 Whitehead Hall
Cliff Spiegelman, Texas A&M University
CHEMICAL AND FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF JFK ASSASSINATION BULLET LOTS:
IS A SECOND SHOOTER POSSIBLE?
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
( view the slides in PowerPoint )
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Alan Edelman,
Interactive Supercomputing Corporation
APPLICATIONS OF RANDOM MATRIX THEORY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Eric Friedman, Cornell University
FINDING A SIMPLE POLYTOPE FROM ITS GRAPH: CONNECTIONS TO LINEAR PROGRAMMING COMPLEXITY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 1, 2007
no seminar
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Jason Eisner, The Johns Hopkins University
SEARCHING FOR OPTIMAL PERMUTATIONS WITH VERY LARGE-SCALE NEIGHBORHOODS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Susan Hohenberger, The Johns Hopkins University
BATCH VERIFICATION OF SHORT SIGNATURES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Ana Szarfman, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
"HYPOTHESIS-FREE" DETECTION OF DRUG SAFETY SIGNALS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Youngmi Hur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WAVELET-BASED CONTROL CHARTS FOR GENERAL MULTIVARIATE PROCESSES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, December 7, 2007
11:00 AM in 203 Hodson Hall
followed by a luncheon reception in 304 Whitehead Hall
The Ninth Annual Alan J. Goldman Lecture
Eva Tardos, Cornell University
GAMES IN NETWORKS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Joint seminar with Department of Biostatistics,
Bloomberg School of Public Health Building, Room W3008
(615 N. Wolfe Street, third floor, west wing), with refreshments at 3:30PM,
Victor Panaretos, University of California, Berkeley
RANDOM TOMOGRAPHY IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 1, 2007
S. Stanley Young, National Institute of Statistical Sciences
NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Monday, February 5, 2007
11:00 AM in 304 Shaffer Hall
Suneal Chaudhary, University of Utah
AN AMERICAN OPTION PRICING METHOD ON MARKOV PROCESSES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 8, 2007
1:00 PM in 301 Shaffer Hall
Bruno Jedynak, The Johns Hopkins University
DIFFUSION KERNELS ON GRAPHS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
(view the slides in pdf )
Thursday, February 8, 2007
(4:00 PM in 304 Whitehead Hall)
Antoine Toussaint, Princeton University
HEDGING UNDER L^2 CONVEX RISK MEASURES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Monday, February 12, 2007
11:00 AM in 304 Shaffer Hall
Jinchun Ye, Base-2 Capital, LLC
OPTIMAL LIFE INSURANCE PURCHASE, CONSUMPTION, AND PORTFOLIO UNDER AN UNCERTAIN LIFE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
4:00 PM in 314 Clark Hall
with refreshments at 3:45 PM, joint seminar with Center for Imaging Science,
Luminita Vese, University of California, Los Angeles
INVERSE PROBLEMS IN IMAGING AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Mia Hinnerich, Stockholm School of Economics
PRICING EQUITY SWAPS IN AN ECONOMY WITH JUMPS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Gregory Eyink, The Johns Hopkins University
TURBULENT DIFFUSION OF LINES AND CIRCULATIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Edward Scheinerman, The Johns Hopkins University
DOT-PRODUCT REPRESENTATIONS OF GRAPHS:EXACT, ASYMPTOTIC, PROJECTIVE, ALGORITHMIC, APPROXIMATE, AND APPLIED
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Donniell Fishkind, The Johns Hopkins University
THE GENUS OF A DIGITAL IMAGE IS DETERMINED BY ITS FOREGROUND, BACKGROUND, AND REEB GRAPHS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Laurent Younes, The Johns Hopkins University
AN (ALMOST) EXPLICIT METRIC IN THE SPACE OF PLANE CURVES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Carey E. Priebe, The Johns Hopkins University
INFERENCE ON INTERPOINT COMPARISONS: AN APPLICATION IN COMPUTATIONAL ANATOMY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Fred Jelinek, The Johns Hopkins University
LANGUAGE MODELING BY RANDOM FORESTS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Jim Fill, The Johns Hopkins University
A (MINOR) MIRACLE: DIAGONALIZATION OF A BOSE-EINSTEIN MARKOV CHAIN
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Raimond L. Winslow, The Johns Hopkins University
CALCIUM SIGNALING IN THE CARDIAC DYAD
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 26, 2007
205 Krieger Hall
The 2007 Acheson J. Duncan Lecture
Preceded by light refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in 301 Whitehead Hall
Robert Azencott, University of Houston
AUTOMATIC LEARNING AND MULTI-SENSORS DIAGNOSIS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, April 27, 2007
11:00 a.m. in 101 Shaffer Hall
Followed by a luncheon reception in 301 Whitehead Hall
Robert Azencott, University of Houston
ULTRASOUND IMAGE ANALYSIS: SPECKLE TRACKING FOR RECOVERY OF CARDIAC MOTION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006,
Inchi Hu,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
OPTIMAL STRATEGIES FOR A CLASS OF SEQUENTIAL CONTROL PROBLEMS WITH PRECEDENCE RELATIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, student seminar,
Al Aksakalli, The Johns Hopkins University
RANDOM DISAMBIGUATION PATHS AND MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 14, 2006,
Daniel Q. Naiman,
The Johns Hopkins University
ARBITRAGE AND GEOMETRY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, September 19, 2006, student seminar,
Hussein Aluie, The Johns Hopkins University
BREAKDOWN OF ALFVEN'S THEOREM IN IDEAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 21, 2006, 4:00 p.m. in 110 Maryland Hall,
SIMCA Colloquium,
with refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in 301 Whitehead Hall,
Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University
MEASURING PERIODICITY IN GENE EXPRESSION WITH PERSISTENCE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 28, 2006,
James Damon,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MEDIAL REPRESENTATION AS A TOOL FOR UNDERSTANDING SHAPE OF 2D AND 3D OBJECTS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, October 3, 2006, student seminar,
Eric Harley, The Johns Hopkins University
SOME MATHEMATICS OF SUDOKU
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 5, 2006,
Robert Garfinkel,
University of Connecticut
STOCHASTIC PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN DATABASES:
A HYBRID OF DATA PERTURBATION AND QUERY RESTRICTION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
( read the paper and a supplement to it )
( view the slides in PowerPoint )
Thursday, October 12, 2006,
Doron Zeilberger,
Rutgers University
The Constructive Theory of Partitions of James Joseph Sylvester
[The FIRST (and so far the BEST) Johns Hopkins Math Prof]
and his Brilliant Grad Students [Fabian Franklin and William Pitt Durfee]
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 19, 2006,
Jamie Guest,
The Johns Hopkins University
TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION AS A STRUCTURAL DESIGN TOOL: APPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 26, 2006,
Mauro Maggioni,
Duke University
MULTISCALE ANALYSIS OF DIFFUSION PROCESSES ON GRAPHS AND ANALYSIS OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 2, 2006,
David W. Scott,
Rice University
REMARKS ON OPTIMAL SMOOTHING OF HISTOGRAMS AND VISUALIZING PARAMETER SENSITIVITY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 9, 2006,
Luminita Vese,
University of California, Los Angeles
MINIMIZATION MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION, IMAGE DECOMPOSITION,
AND TEXTURE MODELING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, November 14, 2006, student seminar,
Hsiao-Fang Chou, The Johns Hopkins University
SMOOTHING VECTOR FIELDS AND TENSORS USING DUAL NORMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 16, 2006,
Daniel N. Rockmore,
Dartmouth College
FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS FOR SEMIGROUPS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 4:00 p.m. in 110 Maryland Hall,
The Second John C. and Susan S. G. Wierman Lecture,
with refreshments beginning at 3:00 p.m. in 301 Whitehead Hall,
William F. Hunt, Jr., North Carolina State University
ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS: A NEW SOURCE OF DISCOVERY
FOR TOMORROW'S PROBLEM-SOLVERS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, December 5, 2006, student seminar (rescheduled from November 21),
Felipe Arrate, The Johns Hopkins University
NON-STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF STOCHASTIC DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, December 7, 2006, in 110 Maryland Hall,
The Eighth Annual Alan J. Goldman Lecture,
followed by a reception in 304 Whitehead Hall,
Christine A. Shoemaker, Cornell University
OPTIMIZATION, CALIBRATION, AND UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS
OF MULTIMODAL, COMPUTATIONALLY EXPENSIVE MODELS
WITH ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2006
Thursday, February 2, 2006, in 110 Maryland Hall,
Dionisios Margetis,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF CRYSTAL SURFACES: MODELING FROM THE NANOSCALE TO THE MACROSCALE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 3:00 PM in 114 Barton Hall,
Mark Alber,
University of Notre Dame
ON PATTERN FORMATION AND CELL AGGREGATION IN BIOLOGY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 16, 2006,
Mikhail Stepanov,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
OPTIMAL FLUCTUATION METHOD FOR ERROR CORRECTION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 23, 2006,
Katarina Jegdic,
University of Houston
HYPERBOLIC CONSERVATION LAWS: THEORY AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF SHOCK REFLECTION PROBLEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 2, 2006,
Shan Zhao,
Michigan State University
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN IMPLICIT SOLVENT APPROACHES FOR BIOMOLECULAR MODELING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 9, 2006,
Youngmi Hur,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
EFFECTIVE WAVELET-BASED REPRESENTATIONS IN HIGH DIMENSIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 16, 2006,
Gregory Eyink,
The Johns Hopkins University
ENTROPY-BASED ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SCHEMES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, March 28, 2006, student seminar,
Xugang Ye, The Johns Hopkins University
SOLVING AIRLINES' PILOT-COPILOT ROSTERING PROBLEM BY SUCCESSIVE BIPARTITE WEIGHTED MATCHING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 30, 2006, in 3 Shaffer Hall,
The 2006 Acheson J. Duncan Lecture,
preceded by light refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in 301 Whitehead Hall,
Lawrence A. Shepp, Rutgers University
APPLICATIONS OF CONVEXITY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
( view the transparencies for the two-lecture series: postscript / pdf )
Friday, March 31, 2006, 11:00 a.m.,
followed by a luncheon reception in 301 Whitehead Hall,
Lawrence A. Shepp, Rutgers University
PROBLEMS IN CONVEXITY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
( view the transparencies for the two-lecture series: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 6, 2006,
Sommer Gentry,
United States Naval Academy
MAXIMUM MATCHING ON GRAPHS FOR KIDNEY PAIRED DONATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 13, 2006,
Benjamin F. Hobbs,
The Johns Hopkins University
ELICITING MULTICRITERIA VALUE JUDGMENTS FROM DECISION-MAKERS:
ESTIMATING AND MITIGATING BIASES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, April 18, 2006, student seminar,
Kevin Byrnes, The Johns Hopkins University
EQUILIBRIUM CONCEPTS IN TWO-PLAYER GAMES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 20, 2006,
Paul Peter Sotiriadis,
The Johns Hopkins University
DIOPHANTINE FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS:
The Invasion of Number Theory to Frequency Synthesis Systems
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
( view the slides: pdf )
Thursday, April 27, 2006,
Joel Bader,
The Johns Hopkins University
GROUP TESTING IN GENOMICS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
CANCELED: Tuesday, May 2, 2006, student seminar,
Eric Harley, The Johns Hopkins University
SOME MATHEMATICS OF SUDOKU
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
CANCELED: Thursday, May 4, 2006, 4:00 p.m. in 110 Maryland Hall,
The Second John C. and Susan S. G. Wierman Lecture,
with refreshments beginning at 3:00 p.m. in 301 Whitehead Hall,
William F. Hunt, Jr., North Carolina State University
ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS: A NEW SOURCE OF DISCOVERY
FOR TOMORROW'S PROBLEM-SOLVERS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2005
Thursday, September 15, 2005,
Carey Priebe,
The Johns Hopkins University
SCAN STATISTICS ON ENRON GRAPHS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, September 20, 2005, student seminar,
Kevin Byrnes, The Johns Hopkins University
CURRICULUM GENERATION VIA CLUSTERING AND OPTIMIZATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 22, 2005,
Edward R. Scheinerman,
The Johns Hopkins University
EXACT AND ASYMPTOTIC DOT PRODUCT REPRESENTATIONS OF GRAPHS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 29, 2005,
Walter D. Wallis,
Southern Illinois University
TOTALLY MAGIC GRAPHS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, October 7, 2005, 11:00 AM,
Jon Vølstad,
Versar, Inc., ESM Operations
COMPARING AND COMBINING EFFORT AND CATCH ESTIMATES FROM AERIAL-ACCESS DESIGNS,
WITH APPLICATIONS TO A LARGE-SCALE ANGLER SURVEY IN THE DELAWARE RIVER
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, October 14, 2005, 11:00 AM,
Tom Woolf,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
INITIAL STEPS ON FINITE GRAPHS FOR BIOPHYSICS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, October 18, 2005, student seminar,
Elizabeth (Libby) Beer, The Johns Hopkins University
SCAN STATISTICS ON GRAPHS: THEOREMS, CONJECTURES, AND INVESTIGATIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 20, 2005,
Alain Trouvé,
L'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
CAN WE REALLY LEARN DEFORMABLE MODELS?
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 27, 2005, in 110 Maryland Hall,
The Seventh Annual Alan J. Goldman Lecture,
followed by a reception in 304 Whitehead Hall,
George Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology
SCHEDULING AN AIR TAXI SERVICE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 3, 2005,
Laurent Younes,
The Johns Hopkins University
AN ARTIFICIAL VISION SYSTEM: THE DISCOVERY OF STRUCTURE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 10, 2005,
René Vidal,
The Johns Hopkins University
GENERALIZED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (GPCA): AN ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRIC APPROACH TO SUBSPACE CLUSTERING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 17, 2005,
Donald Geman,
The Johns Hopkins University
A STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR COARSE-TO-FINE CLASSIFICATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, December 1, 2005, 3:00 PM,
Nigel Goldenfeld,
University of Illinois
PATTERNS, UNIVERSALITY, AND COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, December 8, 2005,
Lori Graham-Brady,
The Johns Hopkins University
SIMULATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS
WITH RANDOM MICROSTRUCTURE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2005
Thursday, February 3, 2005,
Laurent Younes,
The Johns Hopkins University
STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATION FOR FEATURE SELECTION IN PATTERN RECOGNITION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 10, 2005,
Bruno Jedynak,
The Johns Hopkins University
PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION ESTIMATION AND AN APPLICATION TO LANGUAGE MODELING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 17, 2005,
John Wierman,
The Johns Hopkins University
"UNIVERSAL" APPROXIMATION FORMULAS FOR ESTIMATING PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 24, 2005,
William A. Massey,
Princeton University
CALL CENTER STAFFING FOR PROFIT OPTIMALITY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, student seminar,
Andrew Liu, The Johns Hopkins University
SOLVING MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMS WITH EQUILIBRIUM CONSTRAINTS: FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 3, 2005,
Christian Scheideler,
The Johns Hopkins University
ADVERSARIAL MIXING THEORY
Or: How to Keep a System Mixed Under Adversarial Behavior
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 10, 2005,
John R. Klauder,
University of Florida
SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN PASSIVE MEDIA
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 24, 2005,
Brian S. Caffo,
The Johns Hopkins University
ASCENT-BASED MCEM
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 31, 2005, in 110 Maryland Hall,
The 2005 Acheson J. Duncan Lecture,
preceded by a reception at 3:15 p.m. in 301 Whitehead Hall,
Gregory F. Lawler, Cornell University
RANDOM WALKS: SIMPLE AND SELF-AVOIDING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, April 1, 2005, 11:00 AM,
preceded by light refreshments at 10:30 a.m. in 301 Whitehead Hall,
Gregory F. Lawler, Cornell University
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE, BROWNIAN LOOPS, AND MEASURES ON RANDOM PATHS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, April 5, 2005, student seminar,
Beryl Castello, The Johns Hopkins University
SEMI-OBNOXIOUS MULTIFACILITY LOCATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 7, 2005,
David Gilsinn,
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NON-OSCILLATORY SPLINES AND LINEAR PROGRAMMING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, student seminar,
Sangil Kim, University of Arizona
INTRODUCTION TO STANDARD ENSEMBLE FILTERING METHODS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 14, 2005,
Anindya Roy,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
NONPARAMETRIC BINARY REGRESSION USING A GAUSSIAN-PROCESS PRIOR
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 21, 2005,
Shih-Ping Han,
The Johns Hopkins University
PROJECTION METHODS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 28, 2005,
Greg Eyink,
The Johns Hopkins University
STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE OCEAN CIRCULATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, May 3, 2005, student seminar,
Kevin Byrnes, The Johns Hopkins University
A SURVEY OF THE FARKAS LEMMA
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, May 5, 2005,
Robert Serfling,
University of Texas, Dallas
(visiting National Science Foundation)
DEPTH FUNCTIONS IN MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS AND COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2004
Thursday, September 9, 2004,
Daniel Q. Naiman,
The Johns Hopkins University
SYMMETRY BREAKING AND IMPROVED TAIL PROBABILITY BOUNDS FOR THE RANGE STATISTIC
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 16, 2004,
Damianos Karakos,
The Johns Hopkins University
WEIGHTED SUMS OF K-L DIVERGENCES FOR UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION VIA SENSING AND PROCESSING DECISION TREES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 23, 2004,
Donald Geman,
The Johns Hopkins University
IMAGE RETRIEVAL FROM A MENTAL PICTURE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, September 24, 2004, student seminar, 12:00 noon,
William D. May, The Johns Hopkins University
ALGORITHMS FOR NON-CROSSING PARTITIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 30, 2004, in 3 Shaffer Hall,
David E. Keyes,
Columbia University
SCALABLE SOLVERS AND SOFTWARE FOR PDE-BASED APPLICATIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, October 1, 2004, student seminar, 12:00 noon,
Elvan Ceyhan, The Johns Hopkins University
AN INVESTIGATION OF PROXIMITY CATCH DIGRAPHS IN DELAUNAY TESSELATIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 7, 2004,
Jim Fill,
The Johns Hopkins University
TRANSFER THEOREMS AND ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTIONAL RESULTS FOR MULTIWAY SEARCH TREES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, October 15, 2004, 11:00 AM in 110 Maryland Hall,
The Inaugural John C. and Susan S. G. Wierman Lecture,
followed by a reception in 304 Whitehead Hall,
Philip K. Hopke, Clarkson University
ADVANCED FACTOR ANALYSIS METHODS FOR RECEPTOR MODELING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 21, 2004, in 3 Shaffer Hall,
Arthur T. Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College
COUNTING ON DETERMINANTS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, October 22, 2004, student seminar, 12:00 noon,
Pengfei Xiang, The Johns Hopkins University
A SURVEY OF SUBADDITIVE PROCESSES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 28, 2004,
James C. Spall,
The Johns Hopkins University
THE INFORMATION MATRIX: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND EFFICIENT COMPUTATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 4, 2004,
Nevin Kapur,
California Institute of Technology
SOLVENCY GAMES: HOW TO GAMBLE FOREVER
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, November 12, 2004, 11:00 AM in 110 Maryland Hall,
The Sixth Annual Alan J. Goldman Lecture,
followed by a reception in 304 Whitehead Hall,
Karla Hoffman, George Mason University
THE DANCE OF THE THIRTY-TON TRUCKS: DEMAND DISPATCHING IN A HIGHLY DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 18, 2004,
Prasad Tetali,
Georgia Institute of Technology
THE NUMBER OF LINEAR EXTENSIONS OF THE BOOLEAN LATTICE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, December 2, 2004,
Donniell Fishkind,
The Johns Hopkins University
A GENUS BOUND FOR DIGITAL IMAGE BOUNDARIES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2004
(Note: Beginning with this semester, seminars are listed here in chronological, rather than reverse-chronological, order.)
Thursday, January 29, 2004,
Wenbo V. Li,
University of Delaware
AN OVERVIEW ON ZEROS OF RANDOM POLYNOMIALS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, February 6, 2004, 11:00 AM,
Mark Newman,
The University of Michigan
EPIDEMICS, ERDÖS NUMBERS, AND THE INTERNET: THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF NETWORKS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, February 6, 2004, student seminar, 1:00 PM in 104 Maryland Hall,
Majnu John, The Johns Hopkins University
A DATA-ADAPTIVE METHODOLOGY FOR FINDING AN OPTIMAL WEIGHTED GENERALIZED MANN-WHITNEY-WILCOXON STATISTIC
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 12, 2004,
Mark Freidlin,
University of Maryland at College Park
STOCHASTIC RESONANCE AND RELATED PROBLEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 19, 2004,
Jim Fill,
The Johns Hopkins University
RANDOM SUMS, MELLIN TRANSFORMS, GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELDS, SMALL DEVIATIONS, AND REVERSION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 26, 2004,
Patrick Doreian,
University of Pittsburgh
SOME PRESSING TOPICS IN NETWORK ANALYSIS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 4, 2004,
Gregory L. Eyink,
The Johns Hopkins University
RUELLE'S LINEAR RESPONSE FORMULA, ENSEMBLE ADJOINT SCHEMES, AND LÉVY FLIGHTS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 11, 2004,
Chi-Kwong Li,
The College of William & Mary
EIGENVALUES, SINGULAR VALUES, AND LITTLEWOOD-RICHARDSON COEFFICIENTS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 25, 2004,
Carey Priebe,
The Johns Hopkins University
A HIERARCHICAL METHODOLOGY FOR ONE-CLASS PROBLEMS WITH SKEWED PRIORS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 1, 2004, student seminar,
Ana Pavasovic, The Johns Hopkins University
GAPS IN LOTTERIES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 8, 2004,
Robert M. Ziff,
The University of Michigan
THEORY AND ALGORITHMS FOR FINDING THRESHOLDS OF PERCOLATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 15, 2004,
Fred Torcaso,
The Johns Hopkins University
SOME RECENT RESULTS IN SMALL-DEVIATION PROBABILITIES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 2:00 PM,
Hélyette Geman, University Paris IX Dauphine and ESSEC Graduate Business School
STOCHASTIC TIME CHANGES, LÉVY PROCESSES, AND ASSET PRICE MODELING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 22, 2004,
Donald Geman,
The Johns Hopkins University
RANK-BASED CLASSIFICATION OF GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 29, 2004, in 110 Maryland Hall,
preceded by light refreshments in 109 Maryland Hall,
Leo Breiman, University of California, Berkeley
RANDOM FORESTS: A STATISTICAL TOOL FOR THE SCIENCES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, April 30, 2004, 11:00 AM in 110 Maryland Hall,
The 2004 Acheson J. Duncan Lecture,
followed by free luncheon reception in 302 Whitehead Hall,
Leo Breiman, University of California, Berkeley
STATISTICS, MACHINE LEARNING, AND DATA MINING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2003
Thursday, December 4, 2003,
James Case, Baltimore, MD
CONTROVERSIES SURROUNDING THE EFFICIENT MARKETS HYPOTHESIS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 20, 2003,
Louis L. Whitcomb,
The Johns Hopkins University
ADVANCES IN DYNAMICAL MODELING AND CONTROL OF UNDERWATER ROBOTIC VEHICLES FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
RESCHEDULED DUE TO THE SEPTEMBER 19 TROPICAL STORM:
Friday, November 14, 2003, 11:00 AM,
Lowell Abrams,
The George Washington University
DIGITAL, COMBINATORIAL, AND CONTINUOUS TOPOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 6, 2003,
The Fifth Annual Alan J. Goldman Lecture,
Jong-Shi Pang,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
DIFFERENTIAL VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 30, 2003,
Pablo A. Iglesias,
The Johns Hopkins University
MODELING THE CELL'S SENSE OF DIRECTION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 23, 2003,
André Tits,
University of Maryland
FEASIBLE LAGRANGE-NEWTON INTERIOR-POINT ALGORITHMS
FOR INDEFINITE QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING AND NON-CONVEX NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 16, 2003,
John C. Wierman,
The Johns Hopkins University
UNIVERSAL FORMULAS FOR PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 9, 2003,
Allison Okamura,
The Johns Hopkins University
HUMAN-MACHINE COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 2, 2003, joint seminar with Mathematics, 308 Krieger Hall,
with refreshments at 3:30 PM in 211 Krieger Hall,
Rick Kenyon, Princeton University
ASYMPTOTICS OF RANDOM DISCRETE INTERFACES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 25, 2003,
Daniel Q. Naiman,
The Johns Hopkins University
HOW CAN A ROBOT SENSE ITS POSITION?
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 11, 2003,
Laurent Younes, The Johns Hopkins University
METAMORPHOSES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2003
Thursday, May 1, 2003,
Shih-Ping Han and Beryl Castello, The Johns Hopkins University
ON SOME FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 24, 2003,
Jim Fill,
The Johns Hopkins University
THE NUMBER OF BIT COMPARISONS REQUIRED BY QUICKSORT
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 4:00 PM in 110 Clark Hall,
SIMCA Colloquium,
preceded by reception at 3:00 PM in 110 Clark Hall,
Avner Friedman, The Ohio State University
MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE: PROGRAMS AND PROBLEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 17, 2003,
Richard E. Rosenthal,
Naval Postgraduate School
A SAMPLING OF MILITARY OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 10, 2003,
Edward R. Scheinerman,
The Johns Hopkins University
RANDOM DOT PRODUCT GRAPHS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, April 4, 2003, 11:00 AM,
with refreshments at 10:30 AM in 302 Whitehead Hall,
Oded Schramm, Microsoft Research
RANDOM TRIANGULATIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 3, 2003,
The 2003 Acheson J. Duncan Lecture,
preceded by reception at 3:15 PM in 302 Whitehead Hall,
Oded Schramm, Microsoft Research
EMERGENCE OF SYMMETRY: CONFORMAL INVARIANCE OF SCALING LIMITS OF RANDOM SYSTEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 27, 2003, joint seminar with Economics,
Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, University of Texas at Austin
SOME GENERICITY ANALYSES IN NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Monday, March 24, 2003, student seminar, 4:00 PM in 2 Shaffer Hall,
Nevin Kapur, The Johns Hopkins University
ADDITIVE FUNCTIONALS ON RANDOM SEARCH TREES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 20, 2003,
John C. Wierman,
The Johns Hopkins University
PERCOLATION THRESHOLD BOUNDS, COUNTEREXAMPLES, AND CONJECTURES
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 13, 2003, SPRING BREAK (no seminar)
Thursday, March 6, 2003,
Jong-Shi Pang,
The Johns Hopkins University
COLLUSIVE GAME SOLUTIONS VIA CONVEX OPTIMIZATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 27, 2003,
Michelle Wagner,
National Security Agency
A TOUR OF EPSILON-REGULARITY FOR GRAPHS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 20, 2003,
Michael Capalbo,
DIMACS and
Institute for Advanced Study
EXPLICIT UNIQUE-NEIGHBOR EXPANDERS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 13, 2003,
Greg Eyink,
The Johns Hopkins University
WHAT'S SO SURPRISING ABOUT TURBULENT FLOW?
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, February 7, 2003, 11:00 AM in 109 Maryland Hall,
with refreshments at 10:30 AM in 302 Whitehead Hall,
Michal Karonski, Adam Mickiewicz University and Emory University
EDGE WEIGHTS AND VERTEX COLORS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, January 30, 2003, 3:00 PM in 110 Hodson Hall, joint seminar with Mechanical Engineering,
Vijay Kumar,
University of Pennsylvania
CONTROL OF MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2002
RESCHEDULED DUE TO THE DECEMBER 5 SNOWSTORM:
Thursday, December 12, 2002,
Donald Geman,
The Johns Hopkins University
HIERARCHICAL DESIGNS FOR OBJECT IDENTIFICATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 21, 2002, with preseminar at 3:00 PM,
Sven Erick Alm,
Uppsala University
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEDIAN AND MEAN OF GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS AND A RELATED RAMANUJAN SEQUENCE
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 14, 2002,
Edward I. George,
University of Pennsylvania
DILUTION PRIORS FOR MODEL UNCERTAINTY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, November 7, 2002,
Murad S. Taqqu,
Boston University
HEAVY TAILS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 31, 2002, with preseminar at 3:00 PM,
Survajeet Sen,
The University of Arizona
A SCENARIO GENERATION ALGORITHM FOR MULTISTAGE STOCHASTIC LPs
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 24, 2002,
Carey Priebe,
The Johns Hopkins University
RANDOM DISAMBIGUATION PATHS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, October 18, 2002, 11:00 AM in 301 Shaffer Hall,
The Fourth Annual Alan J. Goldman Lecture,
Paul D. Seymour,
Princeton University
STRONG PERFECT GRAPH THEOREM
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 10, 2002,
Jonathan Farley,
Vanderbilt University
THE LATTICE THEORY OF THE SYMMETRIC GROUP
Episode II: f- and h-vectors of distributive lattices
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, October 3, 2002,
Donald W. Hearn,
University of Florida
CONGESTION TOLL PRICING MODELS AND METHODS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 26, 2002, in 110 Clark Hall,
Laurent Younes,
L'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
MODELING IMAGES AND OBJECTS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, September 20, 2002, 11:00 AM in 162 Mattin Center,
Arun Mukherjea,
University of South Florida
ON THE CONTINUOUS SINGULARITY OF THE LIMIT DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCTS OF I.I.D. d-BY-d STOCHASTIC MATRICES
(read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, September 19, 2002,
Eric Vigoda,
The University of Chicago
APPROXIMATING THE PERMANENT
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2002
Thursday, May 16, 2002, 2:30 PM
James D. Malley,
National Institutes of Health
Note special time
DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND COLON CANCER: COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION OF COLON
CANCER USING VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, May 02, 2002,
Dorothy Buck,
The Johns Hopkins University
THE TOPOLOGY OF DNA-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS
(read the abstract: text)
Tuesday, April 30, 2002,
David Mumford,
Brown University
THE INAUGURAL SIMCA COLLOQUIUM 4:30--5:30 PM, Levering Hall Room: Arellano Theater NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE!
MODELING SHAPE: COMPUTER VISION MEETS THE EULER EQUATION
(read the abstract:text)
Friday, April 26, 2002, 10 AM,
Steven E. Shreve,
Carnegie-Mellon University
Note special time
The 2002 Acheson Duncan Lecture: Part II
A UNIFIED MODEL FOR CREDIT DERIVATIVES
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, April 25, 2002,
Steven E. Shreve,
Carnegie-Mellon University
The 2002 Acheson Duncan Lecture
PROBABILITY MODELS FOR DERIVATIVE SECURITIES
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, April 18, 2002,
Keith N. Crank,
National Science Foundation
INTERRUPTIBLE EXACT SAMPLING IN THE PASSIVE CASE
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, April 11, 2002,
J.S. Marron,
North Carolina University, Chapel Hill
A STATISTICIAN'S ADVENTURES IN INTERNET-LAND
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, April 4, 2002,
Langche Zeng,
George Washington University
QUANTITATIVE POLITICAL METHODOLOGY
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, March 28, 2002,
Thomas Yu,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
ROBUST NONLINEAR PYRAMID TRANSFORMS AND NONLINEAR SUBDIVISION SCHEMES
BASED ON MEDIAN-INTERPOLATION
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, March 21, 2002,
Spring break; No Seminar
Thursday, March 14, 2002,
Jim Fill,
The Johns Hopkins University
KNOCKING PROBABILITY DOWN TO A THIRD-GRADER'S LEVEL
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, March 07, 2002,
Jiahua Chen,
University of Waterloo
MODIFIED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST FOR FINITE MIXTURE MODELS
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, February 28, 2002,
Patrick T. Harker,
University of Pennsylvania
The Third Annual Alan Goldman Lecture
A GRADIENT-BASED METHOD FOR ANALYZING STOCHASTIC VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, February 21, 2002,
Steve
Zelditch,
The Johns Hopkins University
STATISTICAL PATTERNS IN ZEROS
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, February 14, 2002,
Edward Scheinerman,
The Johns Hopkins University
A MATTER OF WHERE
(read the abstract: text)
Thursday, February 07, 2002,
Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo,
McMaster University
CONVEX OPTIMIZATION IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
(read the abstract: text)
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2001
December 13, 2001, Erica Flapan, Pomona College
WHEN TOPOLOGY MEETS CHEMISTRY
(read the abstract: text / postscript )
December 06, 2001, Florian A. Potra, University of Maryland Baltimore County
A SUPERLINEARLY CONVERGENT INTERIOR POINT METHOD FOR LCP BASED ON A LARGE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE CENTRAL PATH
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
November 29, 2001, Carey
E. Priebe, The Johns Hopkins University
INVERSTIGATING THE STRUCTURE OF HIGH DIMENSIONAL PATTERN RECOGNITION PROBLEMS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
November 22, 2001, No Seminar
November 15, 2001, Ann
Trenk , Wellesley College
THE LINEAR AND WEAK DISCREPANCY OF AN ORDERED SET
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
November 08, 2001, F.R. McMorris,
Illinois Institute of Technology
STABILITY CONDITIONS FOR CONSENSUS FUNCTIONS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
November 01, 2001, Alan Goldman, The
Johns Hopkins University
ISOLATION and EXCLUSION: A MATTER of COLOR
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
October 25, 2001, James F. Lawrence, George
Mason University
SOME PROBLEMS OF COMBINATORIAL GEOMETRY
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
October 18, 2001, Donniell Fishkind, The
Johns Hopkins University
NEW INCONSISTENCIES IN INFINITE UTILITARIANISM
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
October 11, 2001, Gregory
Chirijian, The Johns Hopkins University
DEGENERATE DIFFUSIONS ON MOTION GROUPS: APPLICATIONS IN ROBOTICS AND POLYMER SCIENCE
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
October 04, 2001, Seminar cancelled
September 27, 2001, Renato
Monteiro, Georgia Institute
of Technology
SOLVING SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMS VIA NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
September 20, 2001, Jong-Shi
Pang, The Johns Hopkins University
COPOSITIVE MATRICES IN MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
September 13, 2001, Daniel
Naiman, The Johns Hopkins University
A GENERAL APPROACH TO GENOME SCANS USING IMPORTANCE SAMPLING
(read the abstract: text
/ postscript / pdf
)
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2001
April 27,2001, David Donoho, Stanford University - Department of Statistics
BEYOND WAVELETS: RIDGELETS, CURVELETS, BEAMLETS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
April 26, 2001, David Donoho, Stanford University - Department of Statistics
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DATA ANALYSIS OF NATURAL IMAGES, BIOLOGICAL VISION, AND MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
April 19, 2001, Giovanni Parmigian, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health - Departments
of Oncology and Biostatistics
STATISTICAL MODELING OF BREAST CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES
(read the abstract: text / postscript / postscript )
April 12, 2001, Benjamin F. Hobbs, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Geography
& Env. Engrng; Jong-Shi Pang, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mathematical
Sciences
NASH--COURNOT EQUILIBRIA IN LINEARIZED DC ELECTRIC POWER MARKETS WITH ARBITRAGE: FORMULATIONS AND PROPERTIES
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
April 5, 2001, Russell Schwartz, Celera Genomics - Informatics Research Group
HAPLOTYPE SEPARATION OF SHOTGUN ASSEMBLY FRAGMENTS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
March 29, 2001, Michael Woodroofe, University of Michigan - Department of Statistics
ISOTONIC REGRESSION: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE CHANGE POINT PROBLEM
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
March 15, 2001, Ibrahim Ahmad, University of Central Florida - Department of Statistics
KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION OF FUNCTIONS OF RANDOM VARIABLES AND AN APPLICATION TO TESTING NORMALITY
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
March 8, 2001, Jie Sun, National University of Singapore - Business School
SEMISMOOTH MATRIX-VALUED FUNCTIONS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
March 1, 2001, Christian Scheideler, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Computer
Science
COLORING NON-UNIFORM HYPERGRAPHS: A FIRST ALGORITHMIC APPROACH TO THE GENERAL LOVASZ LOCAL LEMMA
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
February 22, 2001, Lenore Cowen, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mathematical
Sciences
PREDICTING THE BETA-HELIX FOLD FROM PROTEIN SEQUENCE DATA
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
February 15, 2001, Leah Martell, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mathematical
Sciences
MODEL SELECTION AND DATA REDUCTION WITH THE WAVELET TRANSFORM
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
February 8, 2001, Mark Broadie, Columbia University Business School - Mgmt. Sci. &
Operations Mgmt. Div.
RECENT ALGORITHMS FOR PRICING HIGH-DIMENSIONAL AMERICAN OPTIONS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
February 1, 2001, Kjell Doksum, University of California at Berkeley - Department of Statistics
VARYING COEFFICIENTS: PARTIAL REGRESSION CURVES AS LOCAL MEASURES OF DEPENDENCE
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Fall 2000
December 8, 2000, Gregory L. Eyink, University of Arizona
A VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO STOCHASTIC ESTIMATION FOR LARGE-SCALE NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
December 7, 2000, Raimond L. Winslow, Biomedical Engineering Institute - Center for Computational
Medicine and Biology
INTEGRATIVE MODELING OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: RELATING ALTERED GENE EXPRESSION TO CELL AND TISSUE FUNCTION
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
November 30, 2000, Thomas L. Magnanti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Institute
Professor and Dean of Engineering
THE SECOND ANNUAL ALAN J. GOLDMAN LECTURE: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY- MODELING AND SOLVING NETWORK DESIGN
PROBLEMS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
November 16, 2000, C. Douglas Howard, Baruch College - City University of New York Preseminar
EUCLIDEAN MODELS OF FIRST-PASSAGE PERCOLATION
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
November 9, 2000, Paul Maiste, The Johns Hopkins University
HOW TO CATCH A CRIMINAL: A COMPARISON OF STATISTICAL TESTS FOR HARDY-WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM IN LARGE, SPARSE MULTINOMIALS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
November 2, 2000, Shiyi Chen, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mechanical
Engineering
KINETIC-BASED NUMERICAL METHODS FOR PDES
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
October 26, 2000, Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University - Department of Statistics
A NEW JOINT CONTROL CHART: JOINT BEHAVIOR OF AVERAGE AND MAXIMUM OF A GENERAL PROCESS
(read the abstract: text / postscript / pdf )
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2000
April 27, 2000, Professor Cheng Cheng, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mathematical
Sciences
TEST OF COMPLETE RANDOMNESS AND EXTRACTION OF CLUSTERS ON A HOMOGENEOUS SPACE
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April 20, 2000, Professor John C. Wierman, The Johns Hopkins University - Department
of Mathematical Sciences
BOUNDS FOR CRITICAL PROBABILITIES IN PERCOLATION MODELS
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April 13, 2000, Professor Ronald H. Randles, University of Florida - Department of Statistics
A SIMPLER MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION-FREE SIGN TEST
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April 06, 2000, Professor Olga I. Cordero-Braiia, American University - Mathematics and
Statistics Department
ESTIMATION OF FAILURE TIMES INVOLVING WEIBULL DISTRIBUTIONS VIA STOCHASTIC ALGORITHMS
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March 30, 2000, Professor Thomas C. Hales, University of Michigan - Departments of Mathematics
THE PROOF OF THE KEPLER CONJECTURE
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March 17,2000, Professor Roger J-B Wets, University of California, Davis - Department
of Mathematics
STABILITY ISSUES FOR EQUILIBRIUM POINTS
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March 16, 2000, Professor Roger J-B Wets, University of California, Davis - Department
of Mathematics
LIMIT THEOREMS FOR RANDOM LOWER SEMICONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS With Applications to Statistics, Stochastic Optimization, Probability, and Stochastic Homogenization
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March 9, 2000, Professor Robert J. Vanderbei, Princeton University - Department of Operations
& Financial Engineering
INTERIOR-POINT METHODS FOR SECOND-ORDER CONE PROGRAMMING AND SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING
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March 2, 2000, Professor M. Ali Khan, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics
ASSET PRICING MODELS AND THE LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS WITH A CONTINUUM OF RANDOM VARIABLES
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February 24, 2000, Professor Daniel Ullman, George Washington University - Department of
Mathematics
GIRTH AND FRACTIONAL CHROMATIC NUMBER OF PLANAR GRAPHS
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February 17, 2000, Professor David R. Brillinger, University of California at Berkeley -
Department of Statistics
SOME STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF SPACE DEBRIS RISK ASSESSMENT
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February 10, 2000, Professor Donald Geman, University of Massachusetts - Department of Mathematics
and Statistics
COARSE-TO-FINE COMPUTATIONAL VISION
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February 3, 2000, Prof essor Lancelot F. James, The Johns Hopkins University - Department
of Mathematical Sciences
ON A BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH TO THE IBRAGIMOV-HASMINSKII MODELS
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January 27, 2000, Professor Daniel Naiman, The Johns Hopkins University, Department of
Mathematical Sciences
ABSTRACT TUBES, INCLUSION-EXCLUSION INEQUALITIES, AND RELIABILITY BOUNDS
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Seminars Schedule for Fall 1999
December 2,1999, Professor Hans-Georg Miiller, University of California, Davis - Departments
of Mathematical Sciences and Biostatistics
CORRELATION AND REGRESSION FOR CURVE DATA
November 18,1999, Professor Carey Priebe, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of
Mathematical Sciences
STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION FOR AN ARTIFICIAL NOSE
November 11, 1999, Professor Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers University - Rutgers Center for
Operations Research
PICO: AN ADAPTABLE TOOLBOX FOR PARALLEL BRANCH AND BOUND
October 29,1999, Professor Roger Ghanem, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of
Civil Engineering
MECHANICS OF UNCERTAINTY: REASONING ABOUT UNCERTAINTY IN MECHANICS
October 28, 1999, Professor Charles S. ReVelle, The Johns Hopkins University
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
PROTECTING THE ROMAN EMPIRE (DEFENDANS IMPERIUM ROMANORUM): A CLASSICAL PROBLEM IN MILITARY STRATEGY
October 14,1999, Professor Francisco Facchinei, University of Rome, La Sapienza-Computer
& Systems Science Department
A TRUNCATED NEWTON ALGORITHM FOR LARGE-SCALE BOX-CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION
October 7,1999, Professor Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department
of Mathematics
PARTLY RANDOM GRAPHS AND SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS
September 30, 1999, Professor David Scott, Rice University - Department of Statistics
AFTER MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD, WHAT?
September 23, 1999, Professor James Allen Fill, The Johns Hopkins University - Department
of Mathematical Sciences
PERFECT SAMPLING: A TALE OF TWO ALGORITHMS
September 16, 1999, Professor Colin Wu, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mathematical
Sciences
SMOOTHING SPLINE ESTIMATION FOR VARYING-COEFFICIENT MODELS WITH REPEATEDLY MEASURED DEPENDENT VARIABLE
Seminars Schedule for Spring 1999
April 22, 1999, Professor Shih-Ping Han, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of
Mathematical Sciences
ON SOME MATRIX OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS
April 15, 1999, Professor Leslie Hall and Dr. David Mazur, The Johns Hopkins University,
Department of Mathematical Sciences
STRUCTURE OF SOME SIMPLE INTEGER POLYHEDRA, WITH APPLICATION TO FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEMS
April 14, 1999, Professor Rudolf Beran, University of California at Berkeley - Department
of Statistics
SPECIAL JOINT SEMINAR: THE INAUGURAL GEOFFREY WATSON LECTURE
SMOOTHING IN THE LINEAR MODEL
April 8, 1999, Professor Jianqing Fan, University of California at Los Angeles - Department
of Statistics
STATISTICAL INFERENCES FOR GENERALIZED VARYING-COEFFICIENT MODELS
April 2,1999, Professor Guenther Walther, Stanford University - Department of Statistics
ON MIXTURES AND PENALIZED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
April 1, 1999, Professor Cheng Cheng, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mathematical
Sciences
RELATIVE MOMENTS (AND PROJECTION) METHODS
March 26,1999, Professor Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University - Department of
Mathematics
SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS
March 25, 1999, Professor John Wierman, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of
Mathematical Sciences
A MULTI-TYPE PERCOLATION MODEL
March 11, 1999, Professor Ken Alexander, University of Southern California - Department
of Mathematics
THE 1999 DUNCAN LECTURE
DROPLETS AND BUBBLES: THE MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF PHASE SEPARATION
March 4, 1999, Professor Edward Scheinerman, The Johns Hopkins University - Department
of Mathematical Sciences
A NEW WAY TO FIND SPANNING TREES
February 25, 1999, Professor Douglas A. Zahn, Florida State University - Department of Statistics
IN STATISTICAL CONSULTING, THERE ARE NO MAIN EFFECTS, ONLY INTERACTIONS Or: Consulting with Clarity, Certainty, and Velocity
February 18, 1999, Professor Lajos Horvath, University of Utah - Department of Mathematics
APPROXIMATIONS AND THE BOOTSTRAP
February 11, 1999, Professor Lancelot F. James, The Johns Hopkins University - Department
of Mathematical Sciences
KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATORS BASED ON WEIGHTED SAMPLE QUANTILES
February 5,1999, Dr. Chariya Peterson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
Computer Sciences Corporation
AN ADAPTIVE UNCERTAINTY HANDLER
February 4, 1999, Professor Daniel Naiman, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of
Mathematical Sciences
ABSTRACT TUBES, INCLUSION-EXCLUSION INEQUALITIES, AND RELIABILITY BOUNDS
January 28, 1999, Professor Itobert Adler, The Technion, Israel & University of North
Carolina - Chapel Hill
AN INTRODUCTION TO SUPERPROCESSES
Seminars Schedule for Fall 1998
October 2,1998, Lior Pachter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Mathematics
SOME NEW RESULTS CONCERNING THE ERDOS-SZEKERES THEOREM
Seminars Schedule for Spring 1998
May 1, 1998, Michael Kirch, Humboldt University, Berlin - Department of Stochastics
THE THEORY OF OPTION PRICING
April 10, 1998, Adam Cannon, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mathematical
Sciences
AN APPROXIMATE DISTANCE APPROACH TO CLASSIFICATION IN HIGH DIMENSIONS
February 10, 1998, Clyde Schoolfield, The Johns Hopkins University - Department of Mathematical
Sciences
RANDOM WALKS ON WREATH PRODUCTS OF GROUPS