Colloquium-November 10, 2017

Friday, November 10, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Flexible Models for Gaussian Processes with Applications to Correlated Data Speaker: Sujit Ghosh (Professor, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University) Abstract: Analysis of longitudinal and spatial data are often based on Gaussian processes that are typically based on an assumed parametric class of...

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Colloquium-November 3, 2017

Friday, November 3, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Bayesian Filtering for Periodic, Time-Varying Parameter Estimation Speaker: Andrea Arnold (Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Abstract: Many applications in the life sciences involve unknown system parameters that must be estimated using little to no prior information. In addition, these...

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