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Fall 2011 Colloquium

Colloquium Chair Manuel Lladser
Location ECCR 245
Time 3:00 pm, Fridays
Refreshments Between 4:00 pm and 4:30 pm, outside the APPM Office (ECOT 225)



Date Speaker Affiliation Title
09/02/11 Janos Englander
Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Some challenging open problems for spatial branching models
09/09/11
Mike Mozer
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder Improving The Quality Of Human Judgments Via Decontamination
09/16/11 Robin Dowell-Deen
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Probabilistic Models of noncoding RNA
09/23/11
Heidibert Lopes
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Cholesky Stochastic Volatility
09/30/11
Aaron Clauset
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
Models of morphological diffusion and the macroevolution of whales
10/07/11
Itai Cohen
Department of Physics, Cornell University
Flight of the Fruit Fly
10/14/11
Holger Dullin
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia
Geometric Phase in Aerial Motion
10/21/11
Francois Meyer
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
A random walk on image patches
10/28/11
Edgar Knobloch
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Spatially localized states and homoclinic snaking
11/04/11
Martha Palmer
Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Verbs - the key to knowledge representation
11/11/11
James Brasseur
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Application of Lattice Boltzmann Biocomputation to Investigate Multiscale Transport, Mixing and Absorption in the Intestine
11/18/11
Javiera Barrera
School of Engineering, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
Muticommodity capacited network design under stochastic demand
11/25/11
Thanksgiving

12/02/11
Bernd Sturmfels
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley Joint Math & Applied Math Distinguished Lecture:
The Central Curve in Linear Programming
12/09/11
Last Day of Classes

Special Colloquium Series
12/12/11 Giles Hooker ECOT 226
noon - 1:00 PM
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University
Detecting Evolution in Experimental Ecology: Diagnostics for Missing State Variables
12/13/11 Harry Crane ECOT 831
noon - 1:00 PM
Departmen of Statistics, University of Chicago
Statistical modeling of partitions and trees by stochastic processes
12/14/11 Dimitrios Giannakis ECOT 226
noon - 1:00 PM
Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Nonlinear Laplacian spectral analysis for time series: Capturing intermittency and low-frequency variability
12/15/11 Aaron Smith ECOT 831
11:00 AM - noon
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
Non-Markovian Couplings and Gibbs Samplers
12/15/11 Hongxiao Zhu ECOT 226
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Bayesian graphical models for multivariate functional data
12/16/11 William Kleiber ECOT 832
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO
Computer Model Calibration with High and Low Resolution Model Output for Spatio-Temporal Data