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DIVISION OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS Contact Matt Harrison for questions, speaker recommendations, to meet with a speaker, or to volunteer. To receive email reminders about talks, click here. |
Upcoming TalksMay 8, 2013 12-1pm, 182 George St, Room 110 Scale-invariance and metrics on spaces of plane curves Matt Feiszli The study of metrics and distances on spaces of curves and surfaces is an active area of research with applications in vision and imaging. We will present metrics on spaces of plane curves using techniques from harmonic, complex, and geometric analysis. Their behavior can be best understood through notion of scale, and we will discuss geometric ways to understand their multiscale behavior. We will discuss their application to problems in shape deformation and shape matching, and demonstrate scale-invariant approaches to curve matching on standard test datasets. [pizza will be provided] |
Spring 2013 ScheduleWednesdays, 12-1pm, 182 George St, Room 110 [lunch is provided]January 30, 2013 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Composite likelihood Nancy Reid (Toronto) February 20, 2013 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Nonstationary modeling through dimension expansion Luke Bornn (Harvard) February 27, 2013 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Bayesian model sampling in reinforcement learning Michael Littman (Brown) March 20, 2013 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Sparse superposition codes: Communication by regression Andrew Barron (Yale) April 3, 2013 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Learning to behave by reading Regina Barzilay (MIT) April 10, 2013 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Encoding binary neural codes in networks of threshold-linear neurons Carina Curto (Nebraska-Lincoln) April 17, 2013 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Towards a general theory of human learning and reasoning Charles Kemp (Carnegie Mellon) May 8, 2013 Scale-invariance and metrics on spaces of plane curves Matt Feiszli |
Fall 2012 ScheduleWednesdays, 12-1pm, 182 George St, Room 110 [lunch is provided]October 3, 2012 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Recovering large networks via optimizing non-likelihood functions Rossi Luo (Brown) October 24, 2012 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Active learning under margin assumptions Sivan Sabato (Microsoft Research) November 7, 2012 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Natural image statistics and image restoration Yair Weiss (Hebrew University) November 14, 2012 ABSTRACT WEBSITE Linking signaling pathways and dynamic regulatory networks Anthony Gitter (Microsoft Research) |
2011-2012 ScheduleDivision of Applied Mathematics / Center for Vision Research Seminar Lessons from photographing and identifying the world's plant species Peter Belhumeur (Columbia) May 9, 2012 ABSTRACT Computational challenges in molecular medicine Donald Geman (Johns Hopkins) April 25, 2012 ABSTRACT Hallucinating scene detail and recognizing scene attributes James Hays (Brown) April 18, 2012 ABSTRACT LP relaxations for global models in natural language processing Sebastian Riedel (UMass) March 28, 2012 ABSTRACT What is the neural foundation of the vision process? Christoph von der Malsburg (Frankfurt IAS) March 21, 2012 ABSTRACT The tree of life and the evolution of genome function Casey Dunn (Brown) February 8, 2012 ABSTRACT Exploiting sparse structure by spectral connectivity analysis Ann Lee (Carnegie Mellon) February 1, 2012 ABSTRACT Statistical analysis of populations with interacting and interfering units Edo Airoldi (Harvard) November 30, 2011 ABSTRACT Exploring the role of ventral premotor cortex in reach-to-grasp movements: neural trajectories through spike train similarity space Carlos Vargas-Irwin (Brown) November 2, 2011 ABSTRACT Perceptual Fragments: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Use of Shape in Object Recognition Benjamin Kimia (Brown) October 19, 2011 ABSTRACT Statistical challenges in neural data analysis Liam Paninski (Columbia) October 12, 2011 ABSTRACT Spectral Methods for Learning Graphical Models Sham Kakade (UPenn & MRNE) October 5, 2011 ABSTRACT Dynamic regulation of decision threshold by frontal cortex and basal ganglia Michael Frank (Brown) September 14, 2011 ABSTRACT Non-parametric Priors for Segmentation of Medical Images Polina Golland (MIT) |
2010-2011 ScheduleMay 11, 2011 ABSTRACT Division of Applied Mathematics / Center for Vision Research Seminar Statistical structures of natural scenes and neural ensembles activities Tai Sing Lee (Carnegie Mellon) May 4, 2011 ABSTRACT Logistic Regression on Data Streams Kevin Kochanek (US Department of Defense) April 20, 2011 ABSTRACT Self-folding of polyhedra-- experiments and a little theory Govind Menon (Brown) April 6, 2011 ABSTRACT Division of Applied Mathematics / Center for Vision Research Seminar A High-Throughput Screening Approach to Biologically-Inspired Object Recognition David Cox (Rowland Institute at Harvard) March 16, 2011 ABSTRACT Solving Inference, Optimization, and Constraint Satisfaction Problems with the Divide & Concur and Belief Propagation Message-Passing Algorithms Jonathan Yedidia (MERL) March 9, 2011 ABSTRACT A history of applying principal component analyses to human population genetic data Sohini Ramachandran (Brown) February 16, 2011 ABSTRACT Patterns of Thought (in humanoid robots) Yiannis Aloimonos (University of Maryland) February 9, 2011 ABSTRACT Division of Applied Mathematics / Center for Vision Research Seminar Learning on Analytic Manifolds Fatih Porikli (MERL) November 17, 2010 ABSTRACT Point process adaptive filters and the analysis of ensemble neural spiking activity Uri Eden (Boston University) November 3, 2010 ABSTRACT Bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception Thomas Serre (Brown) October 20, 2010 ABSTRACT Discovering Influential Variables: A Partition Retention Approach Herman Chernoff (Harvard) October 6, 2010 ABSTRACT (CIT 241, Swig Boardroom) Learning Probabilistic Models with Deep Hierarchical Structures Ruslan Salakhutdinov (MIT) |
2009-2010 ScheduleMay 10, 2010 ABSTRACT Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor Processes Erik Sudderth (Brown) April 23, 2010 ABSTRACT A Generative Model Approach to Fraud Detection Brian Lucena (Guardian Analytics, Inc.) April 21, 2010 ABSTRACT Segmentation of Image Ensembles via Latent Atlases Tammy Riklin-Raviv (MIT) April 16, 2010 ABSTRACT Applied Mathematics / Center for Statistical Sciences Seminar Multi-Resolution Inference of Stochastic Models from Partially Observed Data Samuel Kou (Harvard) April 14, 2010 ABSTRACT Preserving knowledge through media transitions: ushering the heritage of India into the digital age Peter Scharf (Brown) April 9, 2010 ABSTRACT Analysis of Molecular Networks Mark Gerstein (Yale) April 7, 2010 ABSTRACT Geometry of the space of 2D shapes equipped with the Weil-Petersson metric Sergey Kushnarev (Brown) March 24, 2010 ABSTRACT Unsupervised Part of Speech Tagging: From graphical models to statistical models to "biological" models Michael Lamar (Brown) March 17, 2010 ABSTRACT Learning in Social Networks with Signals of Bounded Informativeness Ilan Lobel (Microsoft Research New England) March 12, 2010 ABSTRACT Graphs and polytopes: learning structures with linear programming relaxations Tommi Jaakkola (MIT) March 10, 2010 ABSTRACT Respondent-Driven Sampling for Networks: Degrees of Uncertainty with Uncertain Degrees Joe Blitzstein (Harvard) March 3, 2010 ABSTRACT Topic Models: Priors, Stop Words and Languages Hanna Wallach (UMass) February 17, 2010 ABSTRACT Message Passing Algorithms for Compressed Sensing Andrea Montanari (Stanford) February 12, 2010 ABSTRACT Applied Mathematics / Center for Vision Research Seminar Learning Hierarchies of Sparse Visual Features Yann LeCun (Courant) February 3, 2010 ABSTRACT An analysis of connectivity in neuronal population recordings Asohan Amarasingham (Rutgers) November 20, 2009 ABSTRACT Applied Mathematics / Center for Statistical Sciences Seminar Error controls for multiple hypothesis testing Zhiyi Chi (U Conn) November 18, 2009 ABSTRACT Spectral Filtering Approaches to Machine Learning Lorenzo Rosasco (MIT) November 11, 2009 ABSTRACT Generative Models for Image Analysis Lo-Bin Chang (Brown) November 6, 2009 ABSTRACT Applied Mathematics / Center for Vision Research Seminar Understanding Visual Scenes Antonio Torralba (MIT) November 2, 2009 ABSTRACT Center for Statistical Sciences / Applied Mathematics Seminar Application of Heteroskedastic Spatial Models to Computer Experiments Richard A. Davis (Columbia) October 28, 2009 ABSTRACT Statistical Analysis of Climate Ecosystem Dynamics Surajit Ray (Boston University) October 21, 2009 ABSTRACT Recent Advances on the Geometry of the Riemannian Manifold of Landmarks Mario Micheli (UCLA) October 14, 2009 ABSTRACT SIFT Flow: Dense Scene Alignment and Its Applications Ce Liu (Microsoft Research New England) October 7, 2009 ABSTRACT The probabilistic language of thought Noah Goodman (MIT) September 30, 2009 ABSTRACT Learning maximum-entropy models of salience via EM Micha Elsner (Brown) September 23, 2009 ABSTRACT Latent Socio-Spatial Process Model for Social Networks Crystal Linkletter (Brown) September 16, 2009 ABSTRACT Organizational meeting & Conditional inference for non-stationary data Matthew Harrison (Brown) |