Title: Power of Monte Carlo
Methods: Tree-Search, Convergence and Stability
Abstract:
Monte Carlo methods, aka simulation-based methods, is a powerful
paradigm for online…
Moderator: Carmen I. MoraruAaron Adalja: Food Waste MarketsRenata Ivanek: Modeling of Food WasteMartin Wiedmann: A Modeling Approach to Predicting Food Shelf Life to Reduce Food Waste
Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014 at 4:15 PM [.ics]
253 Rhodes Hall
Natesh Pillai
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Category: ORIE Colloquium Seminars
Friday, March 7, 2014 at 3:30pm
Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 655
CAM Colloquium: Howard C. Elman (Maryland) - Reduced Basis Collocation Methods for Partial Differential Equations with Random…
Tuesday, April 17 at 4:15pm
Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall, 253
We analyze the efficiency of particular Markov chain methods used in Bayesian statistics, giving some of the first meaningful bounds on the…
Standard approaches to solving stochastic dynamic programs suffer from the curse of dimensionality. Taking advantage of structural properties such as convexity can help reduce the effect of dimension…