BASS: Berkeley Algebraic Statistics Seminar
Semester: Fall, 2011
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:
Other recommended reading:
| 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, identi cation, 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 |
