Monday, November 6, 2017 (3:45 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Introduction to concentration inequalities, VII
Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: We'll continue talking about methods for proving concentration inequalities, starting with Talagrand's convex distance inequality and moving on to analytic methods.
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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...