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Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Their Applications: An Overview and Recent Developments
Description The sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methodology recently emerged in the fields of statistics and engineering has shown a great promise in solving a large class of highly complex inference and...
Compatibility-Based Clustering of Phylogenetic Data Sets
SpeakerDavid Fernandez-BacaIowa State Universityhttp://www.cs.iastate.edu/~fernande/ Description The treatment of conflict within data sets is among the most debated questions in phylogenetics, and it...
Spline Confidence Bands and Testing the Trend of Leaf Area Index of East Africa
Description Asymptotically exact and conservative confidence bands are obtained for the nonparametric regression function based on piecewise constant and piecewise linear spline estimation...
Crossing Numbers and Graphs with Rotation Systems
Speaker Michael Pelsmajer IIT Applied Mathematics Description Graph drawing considers ways to nicely embed graphs on the plane or other surfaces. The first thing that one tries to avoid is having two...
Consistent Calibration of CDO Tranches with the Generalized-Poisson Loss dynamical model
SpeakerDamiano BrigoBanca IMI and Bocconi Universityhttp://www.damianobrigo.it/ Description We consider a dynamical model for the loss distribution of a pool of names. The model is based on the notion...
Inpainting and Visual Interpolation
Description Inpainting, or image interpolation, has broad applications in visual perception, digital media, and information technology. Compared with other classical interpolation problems (such as...
Sampling-Based Methods for Stochastic Optimization
Speaker Tito Homem-de-Mello https://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~tito/ Description Joint colloquium with IIT ECE Dept.