Data Mining and Statistical Learning

Fall 2008

• 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.
  


• October 21
  Speaker: Data mining group at Nationwide
  will provide background information about a dataset of particular interest to them and present what work they have done and what challenges remain.
  


• October 28
  Group Discussion: Statistical Issues in High-dimensional Data Analysis
  


• Novmeber 4
  Speaker: Jared Scheutter
  Title: Nystrom Extension on Spectral Clustering
  


• November 18
  Speaker: Yushi Liu
  Title: Comparison of Gene Expression Patterns between Normal and Compressed Reproductive Cycle Female Rainbow Trout
  


• November 25
  Speaker: Prasenjit Kapat
  Title: Rebuttal to 'Anomalies in the Foundations of Ridge Regression': Convexity to the Rescue
  


• December 2
  Speaker: Namhee Kim
  will discuss the following paper:
  A nonparametric statistical approach to clustering via mode identification.