Data Mining and Statistical Learning

Fall 2010

All meetings will be held on Wednesday between 1:30pm - 3:00pm in CH212.
Dimension Reduction is the theme of Autumn 2010 quarter.

• September 29th, 2010
  Speaker: Tao Shi
  Title: Introduction to Dimensionality Reduction
  


• October 6th, 2010
  No meeting
  


• October 13th, 2010
  Speaker: Lorenzo Rosasco
  Title: Spectral Methods for Learning High Dimensional Data
  


• October 20th, 2010
  Speaker: Raghu Machiraju
  Title: Examples of Dimensionality Reduction from Biological Applications
  


• October 27th, 2010
  Speaker: Tayler Blake
  Title: The Independent Components of Natural Scenes are Edge Filters
  [Slides]


• November 3rd, 2010
  Speaker: Dunke Zhou
  Title: Statistical Analysis of AIRS Level 3 Quantization Data
  


• November 10th, 2010
  Speaker: Nathan Cruze
  Title: Modeling Local Nonlinear Correlations using Subspace Principal Curves by Reddy and Aziz
  


• November 17th, 2010
  No meeting
  


• November 24th, 2010
  No meeting (Thanksgiving week)
  


• December 1st, 2010
  Speaker: Zhiyu Liang
  Title: Nonlinear Component Analysis as a Kernel Eigenvalue Problem by Scholkopf et al.