Friday, November 18, 2016 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Stochastic topology and inference
Speaker: Sayan Mukherjee (Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University)
Hosted by Elizabeth Meckes
Abstract: I will first talk about a problem at the interface of probability and topology and then an approach to using topology for statistical inference for shapes.
I) Given...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Self-similarity in the eigenvalues of random unitary matrices
Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, MAMS Department, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: In a statistical study of the observed relationship between eigenvalues of large random unitary matrices and zeros of the Riemann zeta function, Coram...