Past Events

Tibshirani will review the lasso method and show an example of its utility in cancer diagnosis via mass spectometry. He will then consider testing the significance of the terms in a fitted regression, fit via the lasso. He will present a novel test...

Geometry is at the foundation of many physical theories, even if it is often obfuscated by their formulations in vectorial or tensorial notations. When computational simulation is needed, leveraging geometric formulations of physical models can...

It is well known that Einstein's general theory of relativity provides a geometrical description of gravity in terms of space-time curvature. Einstein's theory poses some fascinating and difficult mathematical challenges that have stimulated a great...

Why do we have to give up ownership of our data to share? This talk describes how mobile can open up social so we can share anything with anybody anytime easily, without losing data ownership! The key idea lies in an open messaging (OM)...

In recent years it has become increasingly clear that stochasticity plays an important role in many biological processes. Examples include bistable genetic switches, noise enhanced robustness of oscillations, and fluctuation enhanced sensitivity or...

In this talk, several semiparametric extensions of the traditional parametric finite mixture models are introduced. Mixture models are widely used when the population consists of several homogeneous subgroups. Currently most of mixture models...

The classification of finite simple groups is of fundamental importance in mathematics. It is also one of the longest and most complicated proofs in mathematics. We will very briefly discuss the result and a bit of history and then explain how it can...

I will review the lasso method and show an example of its utility in cancer diagnosis via mass spectometry. Then I will consider the testing the significance of the terms in a fitted regression, fit via the lasso. I will present a novel test...