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Fall 2009
All meetings will be held on Wednesday, 10:00am - 11:00am in Room 212 Cockins Hall.
- September 23nd 2009
Organization Meeting (discussion on possible topics for this quarter) - September 30th 2009
Discussion on Mixture Models
Led by: Tao Shi
- October 7th 2009
Speaker: Asuman Turkmen
Outlier Detection
- October 14th 2009
Speaker: Kaushik Sinha
Learning Mixture Gaussians
a nice summary of results for learning mixture models - October 21st 2009
Speaker: Kaushik Sinha
Learning Mixture Gaussians (continuation of talk in the last week)
- October 28th 2009
Speaker: Prasenjit Kapat
The Netflix competition (capture-recapture)
- November 4th 2009
Speaker: Yoonsuh Jung
Discussion on Winning solution to the Netflix competition
- December 2nd 2009
Speaker: Rui Wang
Discussion on Asymptotic distribution and sparsistency for L1 penalized
parametric M-estimators, with applications to linear SVM and logistic regression
by Guilherme Rocha, Xing Wang and Bin Yu