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AMCS/PICS Colloquium

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 12:00pm

AMCS grad students and Elchanon Mossel

Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

Towne 337

See abstract for the schedule.

AMCS Student Reseach Day 2014-15 First Annual AMCS Student Research Day
Friday, December 5 in Towne 337

12:00 Pizza
12:30 -1:40: Welcome to Student Research Day and Student Presentations
1:40 - 2:00: Coffee Break
2:00 - 3:10: Student presentations
3:10 - 3:30: Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30: Keynote talk by Elchanan Mossel
4:30 Reception and posters


Student Lectures
Yinglong Guo Models for Viscoelastic Fluids that Capture Effects of Microstructural Evolution
Howard Levinson Solution of the Nonlinear Inverse Scattering Problem by T-matrix Completion
Iris Yoon Sperner´s Lemma via Sheaf Cohomology
Yichao Lu Fast Algorithms for Large Scale Canonical Correlation Analysis
Anru Zhang Recovery of High-dimensional Low-rank Matrices
Kwon Lee Inference in Distributional Treatment Effects in Instrumental Variable Models
Yuanpei Cao Sparse Covariance Matrix Estimation for Compositional Data via Composition-adjusted Thresh-holding
Shi Gu Energy Landscapes of the Brain Networks
Zhuo Wang Encoding Natural Stimulus with Optimal Neural Population
Ke Zeng Identifying Brain Imaging Abnormalities Using Sparse Modelling
Muzhi Yang Learning Induced Autonomy of Sensory Motor Systems
Jing Xu School Choice Problem
Keynote Address
Elchanan Mossel
It´s Complicated: Statistics and Probability, Relationship Status and Anecdotes
Posters
Valentin Kunin
Mechanical and Acoustic Properties of Fractal-cut Materials


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