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Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Their Applications: An Overview and Recent Developments
Description The sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methodology recently emerged in the fields of statistics and engineering has shown a great promise in solving a large class of highly complex inference and...
Reduced Decompositions and Permutation Patterns
SpeakerBridget Tenner Massachusetts Institute of Technologyhttp://math.depaul.edu/bridget/ Description Billey, Jockusch, and Stanley characterized 321-avoiding permutations by a property of their...
The Majority Decision Function for Trees (Part 2 of 2)
Description Abstract: Kenneth May in 1952 proved a classical theorem characterizing simple majority rule for two alternatives. Surprising recent work has employed this type of axiomatic approach for...
Compatibility-Based Clustering of Phylogenetic Data Sets
SpeakerDavid Fernandez-BacaIowa State Universityhttp://www.cs.iastate.edu/~fernande/ Description The treatment of conflict within data sets is among the most debated questions in phylogenetics, and it...
String Graphs and their complexity (Part 2 of 2)
Speaker Marcus Schaefer DePaul University, µç³µÎÞÂë http://ovid.cs.depaul.edu Description A string graph is the intersection graph of a set of Jordan curves in the plane. Each curve is represented by a...
Spline Confidence Bands and Testing the Trend of Leaf Area Index of East Africa
Description Asymptotically exact and conservative confidence bands are obtained for the nonparametric regression function based on piecewise constant and piecewise linear spline estimation...
The Majority Decision Function for Trees (Part 1 of 2)
Description Abstract: Kenneth May in 1952 proved a classical theorem characterizing simple majority rule for two alternatives. Surprising recent work has employed this type of axiomatic approach for...
Hedging Variance Options on Continuous Semimartingales
SpeakerRoger LeeUniversity of µç³µÎÞÂëhttp://www.math.uchicago.edu/~rl/ Description Variance swaps, which pay the realized variance of [the returns on] an underlying price process, have become a...