Data Mining and Statistical Learning

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