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BASS: Berkeley Algebraic Statistics Seminar
Semester: Fall, 2011
Organizers: Andrew Critch and Shaowei Lin
Time: Wednesdays, 2-3pm
Location: 939 Evans
Organizers: Andrew Critch and Shaowei Lin
Time: Wednesdays, 2-3pm
Location: 939 Evans
For the first half of the semester, the seminar will focus on two main sources:
- Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Pachter, Sturmfels (2005)
- Lectures on Algebraic Statistics [electronic version], Drton, Sturmfels, Sullivant (2008)
Other recommended reading:
- Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, 2nd Edition, Pearl (2009)
Date | Speaker | Title, linked to announcement |
---|---|---|
Aug 17 | Shaowei Lin,
UC Berkeley |
Sparse Coding and Why it Works, and organizational meeting |
Aug 31
[slides] |
Andrew Critch,
UC Berkeley |
What Causality Is (stats for mathematicians) |
Sep 7 | Damien Mondragon,
UC Berkeley |
Implicitization and tropical geometry (math for statisticians) |
Sep 14 | Jose Rodriguez,
UC Berkeley |
Markov bases for toric models |
Sep 21 | Ngoc Tran
UC Berkeley |
Combinatorial types of tropical eigenvectors with applications to ranking |
Sep 28 | Andrew Critch,
UC Berkeley |
How to find a hidden Markov process |
Oct 5 | [no seminar] | SIAM conference on applied algebraic geometry this week |
Oct 12 | Qingchun Ren,
UC Berkeley |
The neighbor-net algorithm and point configurations in P1 |
Oct 19 | Shaowei Lin,
UC Berkeley |
Bayesian Statistics and Singular Learning Theory |
Oct 26 [summary] |
Rudolf Kalman,
Swiss Federal IT |
A new direction of research in mathematical systems theory: Algebraic analysis, identication, and synthesis of passive electric networks |
Nov 2 | Piotr Zwiernik,
IPAM |
Why do we care about inequalities in (algebraic) statistics? |
Nov 9 | Luke Oeding,
UC Berkeley |
Tensors and Implicitization |
Nov 16 | Kelli Talaska,
UC Berkeley |
Trek Systems and Gaussian Graphical Models |
Nov 23 | [no seminar] | Thanksgiving |
Nov 30 | Bernd Sturmfels,
UC Berkeley |
Geometry of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine |
Dec 7 | Guido Montufar,
Max Planck, Leipzig |
Submodels of Deep Belief Networks |