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Mathmatical Modeling Infectious Disease III

Our third and final session will have two presentations “Prediction of hospital demand from the COVID-19 death curve: IHME Model” and “Molecular epidemiology of SARS-Cov-2: what…

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Privacy-Protecting Smart Contracts at Scale -- Noah Johnson

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ORIE Colloquium on 4/7/2015 - William Thomas: Why Post-World War II OR Theory Developed So Rapidly

The fifteen years following World War II saw the development of a wide range of theories of decision making and resource allocation. Notable fields arising from slim foundations included: sequential…

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ORIE Colloquium on 2/3/2015 - Shipra Agrawal: Optimization and Learning for Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty

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ORIE 9000 Colloquium - Rafael Frongillo: A Unified Theory of Elicitation via Convex Analysis

Elicitation is the study of mechanisms which incentivize the truthful reporting of private information from self-minded agents. In this talk I will present a general theory of elicitation grounded in…

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ORIE Colloquium on 1/29/2015 - Jason Lee: Selective Inference via the Condition on Selection Framework: Applications to Inference After Variable Selection

Selective Inference is the problem of testing hypotheses that are chosen or suggested by the data. Inference after variable selection in high-dimensional linear regression is a common example of…

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Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar - Douglas Dockery: Measuring the Health Benefits of Fine Particle Air Pollution Controls

Professor Dockery has studied the health effects of air pollution exposures in populations for over 35 years. Long-term follow-up studies have shown particulate air pollution is associated with…

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CAM Colloquium - Ioannis Papastathopoulos: High-dimensional inference for multivariate extremes

Natural hazards such as floods, heatwaves and windstorms can cause havoc for the people affected and typically result in huge financial losses. Drug-induced liver injury is a major public health and…

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ORIE Colloquium, 2014-05-02 - Philippe Rigollet: The Statistical Price to Pay for Computational Efficiency in Sparse PCA

Friday, 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 on 10/7/2014 - Bruce Turnbull: Interim Monitoring of Clinical Trials: Decision Theory, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Stopping

There are currently over 33,000 clinical trials being conducted worldwide according to the registry clinicaltrial.gov. These are very expensive, often costing tens or even hundreds of millions of…

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CAM Colloquium September 19, 2014 - Julianne Chung: Designing Optimal Spectral Filters and Low-Rank Matrices for Inverse Problems

Computing reliable solutions to inverse problems is important in many applications such as biomedical imaging, computer graphics, and security. Regularization by incorporating prior knowledge is…

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CAM Colloquium - Raazesh Sainudiin: A Correlated Site Percolation Model of a Viscoplastic Fluid

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ORIE Colloquium, 2013-02-20 - Sahand Negahban: Structured Estimation in High-Dimensions

ORIE/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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ORIE Colloquium on 2/17/2012 - Dawn Woodard: Efficiency of Markov Chain Methods in Bayesian Statistics

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…

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CAM Colloquium - November 09, 2012: Ricardo A. Daziano

Ricardo Daziano (Cornell) - Statistical Inference on Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness-to-Pay Friday, November 9, 2012 at 3:30pm Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253 Understanding individual…

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ORIE Colloquium on 10/18/2011 - Sheldon Jacobson: Balance Optimization Subset Selection - An Alternative Approach for Causal Inference with Observational Data

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