Science Learner's Lunch

Sept. 28, 2016

Event Description: Science Learner's Lunch is a workshop series designed to provide students with skills and information that complements the skills they learn in the classroom. These workshops take place every Wednesday, at 12:00 p.m., in Math 150, inside the Leonard H. Gemmill Library of Enigneering, Mathematics & Physics. Upcoming...

Webinar - Elizabeth Byerly

Sept. 27, 2016

Event Description: Elizabeth Byerly, Data Systems Architect, Summit Consulting Parallel and Cluster Computing with R Parallel programming is an essential tool for computationally intensive statistical methods. This webinar focuses on the basics of parallel programming in R and includes first principles of cluster computing. We will define parallelizable problems with...

Science Learner's Lunch

Sept. 21, 2016

Event Description: Science Learner's Lunch is a workshop series designed to provide students with skills and information that complements the skills they learn in the classroom. These workshops take place every Wednesday, at 12:00 p.m., in Math 150, inside the Leonard H. Gemmill Library of Enigneering, Mathematics & Physics. Upcoming...

APPM Instructor Search - Eric Thaler

April 28, 2016

Thursday, April 28, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Main Campus - Engineering Classroom Wing - 257: Newton Lab Eric Thaler, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Quasigeostrophic Theory – Applying Mathematics to Applied Meteorology Quasigeostrophic (QG) theory has been the cornerstone of dynamic meteorology for well over...

APPM Instructor Search - Danielle Lyles

April 26, 2016

Event Description: Danielle Lyles, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas - San Antonio The role of large environmental noise in masting: General model and example from pistachio trees Masting is synchronous, highly variable reproduction in a plant population, or synchronized boom–bust cycles of reproduction. These pulses of resources have cascading...

APPM Faculty Search - Eric Vance

April 21, 2016

Event Description: Eric Vance, Director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA) The Extraordinary Potential of Statistical Collaboration Laboratories Statistics, applied mathematics, and data science provide powerful methods, tools, and ways of thinking for solving problems and making decisions, but not everyone who could benefit from applying quantitative science...

APPM Instructor Search - Christian Lucero

April 14, 2016

Event Description: Christian Lucero, Department of Statistics, Indiana University The Role of Optimal Experimental Design In the Solution of Inverse Problems Inverse problems persist in nearly every scientific field. Many inverse problems of interest are ill-posed and require the use of regularization to obtain stable estimates of the model parameters...

APPM Special Seminar - Alex Gittens

March 2, 2016

Wednesday, March 02, 2016 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Main Campus - Engineering Classroom Wing - 257: Newton Lab Alex Gittens; International Computer Science Institute; University of California, Berkeley Why (some) nonlinear embeddings capture compositionality linearly Dimensionality reduction methods have been used to represent words with vectors in NLP applications...

Mathematical and Computational Principles Underlying Robust Perception and Memory

Jan. 22, 2016

Event Description: Joel Zylberberg , Department of Physiology and Biophysics , University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Mathematical and Computational Principles Underlying Robust Perception and Memory The nervous system is a surprisingly noisy place. For example, if one presents the exact same stimulus to an animal many times, and...

Special: Jarad Niemi

Dec. 7, 2015

Bayesian analysis for heterosis detection in RNAseq data Jarad Niemi Department of Statistics , Iowa State University Date and time: Monday, December 7, 2015 - 2:00pm Location: ECCR 257 Abstract: An important type of heterosis, known as hybrid vigor, refers to the enhancements in the phenotype of hybrid progeny relative...

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