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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Speaker Aleksandra Slavkovic Penn State Statistics Department http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~sesa/ Description Increasing volumes of personal and sensitive data are collected and archived by health...
