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SMAC talks are held each Friday during fall and spring semesters from 10:10 AM to 11:00 AM in 327 Thomas Building. Talks last 40 minutes, with time for clarification questions. The last 10 minutes are for open-ended discussion.
The general guidelines for each talk:
- 40 minutes for each talk + 10 minutes for discussion.
- The talk should be accessible to all grad students who have completed 1 year of the program.
- Informal style. For instance, chalk and blackboard talks are welcome.
- Interruptions during the talk are welcome but they should only be for clarifications; longer questions are to be left to the discussion period.
- Unpublished work may not be shared or discussed outside the group without the permission of the speaker/author.
- While a large proportion of the talks may be related to stochastic modeling and computing, a much broader list of topics have also been discussed in this series.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| August 31 | Michael Gechter | Smart Cities and External Validity in Developing Countries |
| Sept. 07 | Jim Lynch | What is the Shape of a Bundle? An Analysis of Rosen’s Fibrous Composites Experiments Using the Chain-of-Bundles Model |
| Sept. 14 |
Matteo Coronese Martina Calovi |
The devil is in the tail: evidence of increasing trends in natural disaster risk GFS downscaling using personal weather stations for heat wave vulnerability |
| Sept. 21 | Eunhye Song | Large-scale discrete simulation optimization using multi-resolution Gaussian Markov random fields |
| Sept. 28 | Saurabh Bansal | Concentration inequalities in data-driven optimization problems in Operations Research |
| Oct. 05 | Owais Gilani | Does accounting for human mobility affect air pollution exposure assignment in environmental health studies? |
| Oct. 12 | Bharath Sriperumbudur | Kernels and Gaussian Processes: Connections and Equivalences |
| Oct. 19 | Marco Avella | CANCELED |
| Oct. 26 | Mucyo Karemera | On the Finite Sample and Asymptotic Bias Correction Properties of Simulation-based Estimators |
| Nov. 02 | Tobia Boschi | Registering functional responses and functional predictors through canonical correlations. |
| Nov. 09 | Beomseok Seo | Compute Mean Partition and Assess Uncertainty for Clustering Analysis |
| Nov. 16 | Jaewoo Park | A function emulation approach for doubly-intractable distributions |
| Nov. 23 | Thanksgiving | |
| Nov. 30 | Karthik Bharath | Aspects of group invariance for functional data |