Data Mining & Statistical Learning Study Group

Schedule for Autumn 2008

All meetings are on Tuesdays, 10:30AM - noon in Room 240 Cockins Hall (the former MBI seminar room) except as otherwise noted.

• September 30
  Speaker: Hiroshi Yabe
  (Department of Mathematical Information Science, Tokyo University of Science)
  Title: A primal-dual interior point method for nonlinear semidefinite programming
  [Abstract]


• October 7
  Speaker: Yoonkyung Lee
  Title: A Bahadur Representation of the Linear Support Vector Machine
  


• October 14
  Speaker: Joe Verducci
  Title: A preliminary look at Nationwide Data
  Discussion on variable selection methods and evaluation of classification rules will follow.