Data Mining & Statistical Learning Study Group

Schedule for Spring 2008

All meetings are on Fridays, 10:00AM - 11:30PM in Room 212 Cockins Hall except as otherwise noted.

• April 4, 10:00 -- 11:30, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Tao Shi
  Title: Data Spectroscopy: Eigenspace of Convolution Operators and Clustering
  


• April 11, 18, 10:00 -- 11:30, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Mandeep Gill
  Title: The Great'08 Challenge
  pdf
  


• April 25, 10:00 -- 11:30, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Prasenjit Kapat
  Title: Anomalies in the Foundations of Ridge Regression
  by D. Jensen and D. Ramirez
  International Statistical Review (2008), 76, pdf
  


• May 2, 10:00 -- 11:30, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Yonggang Yao
  Title: Adaptivity of SVM with L1 Penalty
  by B. Tarigan and S.A. van de Geer pdf


• May 16, 10:00 -- 11:30, 212 CH
  Title: Random projection trees and low dimensional manifolds
  by Sanjoy Dasgupta
  Discussion following the joint CSEE & Statistics Seminar
  



• May 28, 10:30 -- 11:30, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Lorenzo Rosasco
  Title: Elastic Net Regularization in Learning Theory
  


• May 30, 10:00 -- 11:30, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Jerry Friedman
  Title: Fast Sparse Regression and Classification
  Discussion following the Rustagi Lecture. pdf