Sep
24
Who We are, What We Do - Part II
Description Are you curious about the cutting-edge research conducted at the computer science department? Are you interested in working with the computer science faculty? Find out what we are doing by...
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Sep
23
Conditional Independence Structures for Mixed Graphs
SpeakerKayvan SadeghiDepartment of Statistics;Carnegie Mellon Universityhttp://www.stat.cmu.edu/people/faculty/kayvans Description In this talk we describe several classes of graphs used in the...
Sep
23
Non-enzymatic Glycation of Type I Collagen in Rat Tail Tendons- Diabetic Complications to Structure and Function of Collagen
Description Diabetes causes changes to the structure of extracellular matrix elements such as collagen. The effects of diabetes on collagen can lead to complications: low tissue repair, glaucoma...
Sep
19
How do we actually do hypothesis testing for large (sparse) crossclassified data?
Description Continuation: section 1.2: Higher-order contingency tables. Conditional distributions. Markov bases : definition and uses. Suggested background reading: Fisher's exact test. Event Topic...
Sep
18
Multilevel Monte Carlo Metamodeling
Event Topic: Computational Mathematics & Statistics
Sep
18
Hydra Number of Graphs
Speaker Despina Stasi IIT Applied Math http://www.personal.psu.edu/~users/d/u/dus33/ Description In this talk we define and discuss the hydra number, a graph parameter arising from an optimization...
Sep
16
What Do Sudoku and Turbulence Have in Common?
SpeakerZoltan ToroczkaiPhysics Department;University of Notre Damehttp://obelix.phys.nd.edu/~toro/ Description The mathematical structure of many number puzzles such as Sudoku is akin to hard...
Sep
13
Graphs with χ = Δ have Big Cliques
Speaker Dan Cranston Virginia Commonwealth University http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dcranston/ Description Let G be a graph with maximum degree Δ ≥3. Brooks' Theorem says that if G has chromatic number Δ...
Sep
12
Introduction to hypothesis testing for contingency tables
Description Introduction to hypothesis testing for contingency tables. (Based on the material from sections 1.1 and 1.2 from ``Lectures on Algebraic Statistics"; book available electronically through...