Tuesday, November 25, 2014 (2:45 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Packing and Covering on the Sphere
Speaker: Michael Swearingin (Graduate Student, Case Western Reserve University MAMS Department)
Abstract: We will survey the classical results on packing and covering on the Euclidean sphere in Rn. We will focus on establishing the almost optimal (asymptotic) upper...
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Friday, November 14, 2014 (3:00-3:50 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Dimension-Reduced Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Processes
Speaker: Jenný Brynjarsdóttir (Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: The field of spatial and spatio-temporal statistics is increasingly faced with the challenge of very large datasets. The classical approach to spatial and spatio-temporal modeling is very computationally demanding when datasets are...