Algorithms Seminar

Time: Fridays, 10am - 11am. Location: D344.
Past semesters: Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003.
January 19 Persistent Intersection Homology (abstract) Paul Bendich
January 26 Persistence stability for Lipschitz functions (abstract) Yuriy Mileyko

February 2 A space-optimal data stream algorithm for coresets in the plane (abstract) Hai Yu
February 9 Analysis of the WRAP Reconstruction Algorithm (abstract) Bardia Sadri
February 16 Geometric aspects of learning from labeled and unlabeled data (abstract) Mikhail Belkin
February 23 at 9:30am
in North 225
The total mean curvature of a convex polytope inside the unit ball is at most 4 \pi (abstract) Herbert Edelsbrunner

March 2 Fast Bayesian Shape Matching and Some Algorithmic Problems in Statistics (abstract) Scott Schmidler
March 23 at 2:30pm Convergence rate of parallel tempering for multimodal distributions (abstract) Dawn B. Woodard

April 13 Quadratic and Cubic B-Splines by Generalizing Higher-Order Voronoi Diagrams (abstract) Yuanxin (Leo) Liu
April 20 Motion Tracking on Manifolds (abstract) Jorge G. Silva
April 27 In vivo Small Animal Imaging with Micro-CT and MR Microscopy (abstract) Cristian Badea

May 4 Inferring Local Homology from Sampled Stratified Spaces (abstract) Dmitriy Morozov
May 25 Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing (abstract) Miguel S. Lobo