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ORIE Colloquium on 2/18/2015 - Mariana Olvera-Cravioto: Queues in the Cloud: Generalizing the single server queue to massively parallel networksMotivated by today’s cloud computing capabilities in large server farms, we present a queueing model where jobs are split into a number of pieces which are then randomly routed to…
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ORIE Colloquium, 2015-03-09 - Hamed Amini: Epidemics and Percolation in Complex NetworksIn this talk, we study two different diffusion models on the random graphs. In the first part, we consider first passage percolation. We analyze the impact of the edge weights on distances in…
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ORIE Colloquium, 2014-05-02 - Philippe Rigollet: The Statistical Price to Pay for Computational Efficiency in Sparse PCAFriday, May 2 2:20 p.m. – Presentation – 253 Rhodes Hall Philippe Rigollet The statistical price to pay for computational efficiency in sparse PCA Computational limitations of…
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ORIE Colloquium, 2013-02-20 - Sahand Negahban: Structured Estimation in High-DimensionsORIE/Statistics Colloquium: Sahand Negahban (MIT) - Structured Estimation in High-Dimensions Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 4:15pm Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253 Modern techniques in data…
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CAM Colloquium 2013-02-01, Mason Porter (edit)CAM Colloquium: Mason Porter (Oxford) - Cascades and Social Influence on Networks Friday, February 1, 2013 at 3:30pm Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 655 Cascades and Social Influence on NetworksI discuss…
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CAM Colloquium 2013-02-01, Mason PorterCAM Colloquium: Mason Porter (Oxford) - Cascades and Social Influence on Networks Friday, February 1, 2013 at 3:30pm Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 655 Cascades and Social Influence on NetworksI discuss…
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ORIE Colloquium on 2/17/2012 - Dawn Woodard: Efficiency of Markov Chain Methods in Bayesian StatisticsTuesday, 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…
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CAM Colloquium, 2013-11-22 - Gilbert Strang: Tridiagonal Matrices in Four ApplicationsTridiagonal matrices appear almost everywhere (like 2nd order differential operators).This talk grew out of four very different applications: 1. (positive definite) Completion to maximum…
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