Data Mining and Statistical Learning

Winter 2009

All meetings are held on Thursdays, 10:00AM - 11:30am in Room 212 Cockins Hall.

• January 15th 2009
  Speaker: Mikhail Belkin
  "Point-cloud data: issues and directions"


• January 22nd 2009
  Speaker: Dunke Zhou
  "Representations of Knowledge in Complex Systems" by U. Grenander and M. Miller
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• January 29th 2009
  Speaker: Jared Schuetter
  "Statistical Shape Anlaysis: Clustering, Learning and Testing" by Anuj Srivastava et al.
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• February 12th 2009
  Speaker: John Draper
  "A Survey of the Statistical Theory of Shape" by David G. Kendall
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• February 19th 2009
  Speaker: Yusu Wang
  "Persistent Homology: an Introduction"
  


• February 26th 2009 and March 5th 2009
  Speaker: Venu Satuluri
  "A topological view of unsupervised learning from noisy data" by P. Niyogi, S. Smale and S. Weinberger
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• March 12th 2009
  Speaker: Hao Wu
  "A Statistical Approach to Persistent Homology" by Peter Bubenik and Peter Kim
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