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Oct
18
Computational Chemistry and the 2013 Nobel Prize – A Panel Discussion
For the third time in history, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded in the area of computational chemistry. IIT has recently welcomed two new faculty, David Minh and Andrey Rogachev, in this...
Oct
18
Why Is It So Hard to Estimate Expected Returns?
Host Department of Applied Mathematics Description Abstract: A key part of experiment design is determining how much data to collect. When the data comes in the form of a time series, the sample size...
Oct
17
Proactive Detection of Phishing Web Sites
Description Abstract We will present in this talk an approach for pro-active detection of phishing web sites. The main idea consists in learning from data the underlying language model used by...
Oct
16
Location Functions on Trees and Beyond: A Short Survey and Some Recent Results
Description Let G =(V,E) be a finite connected graph and π a k-tuple in V. Think of k customers, each one reporting a most preferred vertex. Location and consensus theory often involves finding the...
Oct
16
Numerical Simulation of the Dynamics of a Bio-Membrane in Viscous Flow with Thermal Noise
Description We use immersed boundary method to incorporate the thermal noise into the model. A delta function is used to couple the fluid with the membrane. And a finite difference discretization of...
Oct
15
Determining phylogenetic invariants
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...
Oct
14
Stochastic Approximation of Score Functions for Gaussian Processes
SpeakerJie ChenArgonne National Laboratoryhttp://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jiechen/ Description Gaussian processes are the cornerstone of statistical analysis in many application areas. However, most of the...