Statistical Learning and Data Mining

Fall 2015

Meetings will be held every other Thursday between 10:30 am - 11:30 am in CH212.
Presentation and discussion schedule will be posted as we go along.
Note: After the fall break (October 15-16), meetings will be in CH240.

• September 3, 2015
  
  Organizational Meeting (Faculty only)
  
  


• September 17, 2015
  
  Speaker: Zhifei Yan
  Title: Network Cross-Validation for Determining the Number of Communities in Network Data by Kehui Chen and Jing Lei (2014)
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• October 1, 2015
  
  Speaker: Liubo Li and Shanshan Tu
  Title: Adaptive piecewise polynomial estimation via trend filtering by Ryan J. Tibshirani (2014)
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• October 22, 2015 (CH240)
  
  Video Lecture: The unreasonable effectiveness of deep learning by Yann LeCun
  Reference: Deep learning by Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton (2015)
  


• November 5, 2015 (CH240)
  
  Speaker: Jieyi Jiang and Qian Qian
  Title: Controlling the False Discovery Rate via Knockoffs by Rina Foygel Barber and Emmanuel Candes (2014)
  


• November 19, 2015 (CH240)
  
  Speaker: Tim Book
  Title: Gaussian Graphical Models
  Reference: Graphs and Model Selection (Chapter 9) from Statistical Learning with Sparsity: The Lasso and Generalizations by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Wainwright


• December 3, 2015 (CH240)
  
  Speaker: Lo-Bin Chang
  Title: High-dimensional graphs and variable selection with the lasso by Meinshausen, N. and Bühlmann, P.