Martin Wainwright is an outstanding machine learning researcher and he gives a talk Thursday at 4pm room 1360. Don't miss it!

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Date: Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:32 AM
Subject: COLLOQUE DES SCIENCES MATHÉMATIQUES DU QUÉBEC (20/11/2014, Martin Wainwright)
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COLLOQUE DES SCIENCES MATHÉMATIQUES DU QUÉBEC
Montréal
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DATE :
Le jeudi 20 novembre 2014 / Thursday, November 20, 2014

HEURE / TIME :
16 h / 4:00 p.m.

CONFERENCIER(S) / SPEAKER(S) :
Martin Wainwright (University of California, Berkeley)

TITRE / TITLE :
High-dimensional phenomena in mathematical statistics and convex analysis

LIEU / PLACE :
CRM, UdeM, Pav. André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 1360

RESUME / ABSTRACT :
Statistical models in which the ambient dimension is of the same order or larger than the sample size arise frequently in different areas of science and engineering. Although high-dimensional models of this type date back to the work of Kolmogorov, they have been the subject of intensive study over the past decade, and have interesting connections to many branches of mathematics (including concentration of measure, random matrix theory, convex geometry, and information theory). In this talk, we provide a broad overview of the general area, including vignettes on phase transitions in high-dimensional graph recovery, and randomized approximations of convex programs.

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Un café sera servi à 15h30 / Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm
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http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Colloques/colloqueSMQ-Montreal.html