Monday, October 2, 2017 (3:45 p.m. in Yost 306)

Title: Introduction to concentration inequalities, IV

Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University)

Abstract: This week I’ll talk about some applications of concentration for nonlinear functions, beginning with the Johnson-Lindenstrauss dimension reduction lemma. As with previous weeks, the talk will be self-contained.