Math Sciences Seminar
MATH 498 Winter Quarter 2016

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January 7
Marina Meila Organizational meeting
January 14
Research talks by Rob Gens (CSE) and Jason Xu (Statistics): Jason's slides
Food brought to you by Jay Dan Howard, Ian Bruce, Jerry Cheng
January 21
Research talk by Jacob Schreiber on analysis of nanopore data using large scale Hidden Markov Models
How to write a statement of purpose slides
Food brought to you by Kaitlyn Jakubek, Parto Shareghi, Liao He
January 28
Planning for grad school slides by Kirk Li and Marina Meila TB posted
Food brought to you by Siyu Sun, Xiuyi Li and Zezhou Jing
February 4
Avi Levy (Mathematics) on discrete inverse problems, Phil Snyder on Machine Learning
Food brought to you by
February 11
Tim Hesterberg and Erica Hiler, Google
Food brought to you by
February 18
No class at the scheduled time.
February 25
Kirk Li, Microsoft (slides)
Food brought to you by Omar Khan, Hyun Yi and Qiaoer Lu
March 3
Impressions and comments on your Statements of Purpose
James McQueen on Manifold Learning and Non-linear dimension reduction
The python software James described and the accompanying paper
Food brought to you by Ian McDermott, William Van, and Christopher Nickell
March 10
Matt Junge (Mathematics) on The Mathematics of Mind Control
"A magic trick will be performed, an unsolved problem divulged, and the nature of probability research revealed"
Food brought to you by Zezhou Jing and Cole Chamberlin
March 17
EXAM WEEK!