Data Mining and Statistical Learning

Spring 2009

Unless specially notified, all meetings will be held on Thursdays, 9:00am - 10:15am in Room 212 Cockins Hall.

• April 2nd 2009
  Organization Meeting (discussion on possible topics for this quarter)


• April 8th 2009 (Wednesday 3:30pm, in Room 480 Dreese Labs)
  Speaker: Kai Mao (visitor of Mikhail Belkin)
  Title: Bayesian Mixture Modeling for Supervised Dimension Reduction


• April 16th 2009
  Speaker: Hao Wu
  "A Statistical Approach to Persistent Homology" by Peter Bubenik and Peter Kim
  Link


• April 23rd 2009 (Special notice on room and time change: we will meet in CH 240, 9:15 - 10:30)
  Group discussion with Prof. John Lafferty
  


• April 30th 2009
  Speaker: Jared Schuetter
  "Looking for Shapes in Two-Dimensional, Cluttered Point Clouds" by Anuj Srivastava and Ian H. Jermyn
  Link


• May 7th 2009
  Jared Schuetter will lead a follow-up discussion on "Looking for Shapes in Two-Dimensional, Cluttered Point Clouds" by Anuj Srivastava and Ian H. Jermyn.