Tuesday, April 19, 2016 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Randomized isoperimetric inequalities
Speaker: Peter Pivovarov (Assistant Professor, University of Missouri)
Abstract: The focus of my talk will be stochastic forms of isoperimetric inequalities for convex sets. In particular, I will discuss the Brunn-Minkowski inequality and some of its recent extensions. I will...
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Friday, April 22, 2016 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Exact MCMC Using Approximations and Bernoulli Factories
Speaker: Radu Herbei (Associate Professor of Statistics, The Ohio State University)
Hosted by Jenný Brynjarsdóttir
Abstract: With the ever increasing complexity of models used in modern science, there is a need for new computing strategies. Classical MCMC algorithms...