Data Mining & Statistical Learning Study Group

Schedule for Autumn 2005

• Our organizational meeting will be on Sep. 22nd from 9:30-11:00AM. The place is Room DL263 (Dreese Lab).
• The time and place of our regular meeting in Autumn 2005 are 9:30-11:00AM every thursday in Rm212, Cockins Hall (starting from Sep. 29th to Dec. 1st).
• September 29: Abstract of Tao Shi's talk is here. The slides is here.
• October 6: Mikhail Belkin. The paper relevant to his talk can be downloaded here. A brief description of his talk is here.
• October 13: Keith Marsolo. Two reference papers can be downloaded here and here.
• October 20: Bin Li. Two reference papers (ISOMAP and LLE in Science, 2000) can be downloaded at here (ISOMAP) and here (LLE). Nice presentations (by Lawrence Saul) of that topic can be found here.
• October 27: Zhenhuan Cui. The reference paper (data squashing) can be downloaded here.
• November 3: Dianne Bautista. The reference paper (Hessian LLE by Donoho and Grimes) can be downloaded here.
• November 10: Namhee Kim. The reference paper (Robust Manifold Unfolding with Kernel Regularization by Lu, Lin and Wahba) can be downloaded here.
• November 17: Tao Shi. The abstract is here. The slides is here.
• December 1: Mikhail Belkin. The abstract is here.