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...
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Friday, April 8, 2016 (12:30 p.m. in Rockefeller 309)
Title: Structured Recurrent Networks: Two Lessons from Random Matrix Theory
Speaker: Yonatan Aljadeff (Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago)
Abstract: Recently we developed a dynamic mean field approach for partially structured and partially random neural networks. These networks undergo a phase transition from a single fixed...