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Using Nutrition to Reduce Heart Disease and Cancer

Heart disease and cancer are the two leading causes of death. While we haven’t learned how to live forever, nutritional science has taught us how and why improving our diet will reduce the…

From  Kenny Berkowitz 350 plays

ORIE Colloquium on 3/25/2014 - Rob Freund: A First-Order View of Some Boosting Methods: Computational Guarantees and Connections to Regularization

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 4:15pm Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253 ORIE Colloquium: Rob Freund (MIT) - A First-Order View of Some Boosting Methods: Computational Guarantees and Connections to…

From  E. Cornelius 29 plays

CAM Colloquium: Steven Strogatz (Cornell) - Writing about math for the New York Times-720

Friday, February 7, 2014 at 3:30pm Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 655 CAM Colloquium: Steven Strogatz (Cornell) - Writing about math for the New York Times From February to May 2010, I wrote a weekly…

From  E. Cornelius 13 plays

Ezra's Round Table on 2/12/2012 - Oguzhan Alagoz: A POMDP Approach to Personalize Mammography Screening Decisions

Friday, February 24 at 12:00pm Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall, 253 Breast cancer is the most common non-skin cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-death in US women. Although mammography is the…

From  E. Cornelius 18 plays