Analysis and Probability Seminar-October 9, 2017

Monday, October 9, 2017 (3:45 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Introduction to concentration inequalities, V Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: This week I'll talk about chaining bounds for stochastic processes, and applications in harmonic and functional analysis.

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Analysis and Probability Seminar-October 2, 2017

Monday, October 2, 2017 (3:45 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Introduction to concentration inequalities, IV Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: This week I'll talk about some applications of concentration for nonlinear functions, beginning with the Johnson-Lindenstrauss dimension reduction lemma. As with...

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