DATE |
SPEAKER |
ORG/INSTITUTION |
HOST |
TITLE |
2013-01-09 | Warren B. Powell | Princeton University | Frank Alexander | IS&T Seminar: The Knowledge Gradient Policy for Optimal Learning |
2012-11-07 | Benjamin Sanderson | NCAR | Nathan Urban | IS&T Seminar: Model Interdependency in the CMIP5 Multi-Model Ensemble: A Framework for Integrated Projections |
2012-10-03 | Boris Khattatov | Fusion Numerics LLC | Misha Chertkov | IS&T Seminar: Assimilative Modeling of the Ionosphere: Implementation, Validation and Applications |
2012-09-26 | Klaus Mayer | Joint Research Centre Inst. for Transuranium Eleme | Lav Tandon | IS&T Seminar: Nuclear Forensic Science--Revealing Information Inherent to Nuclear Material for Nuclear Safeguards and Nuclear Security |
2012-09-19 | Thakshila Wimalajeewa | Syracuse University | Amy Galbraith | IS&T Seminar: Compressive Sensing Based Statistical Inference |
2012-09-12 | Peter Loxley | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Garrett Kenyon | IS&T Seminar: Learning Dictionary Statistics from Natural Images |
2012-08-29 | Larry MacCherone | Carnegie Mellon University | Steve Painter | ISTC Seminar: “Agile Software Development Methods” |
2012-08-22 | Frank Pabian | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: “Geospatial Tools for Nonproliferation Analysis” |
2012-08-15 | Lenka Zdeborova | CEA Saclay and CNRS, France | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: “Module Detection in Networks Via Belief Propagation” |
2012-08-13 | William Q. Meeker | Iowa State University | Scott Vander Wiel | ISTC Seminar: “Statistical Methods for Degradation Data with Dynamic Covariates and an Application to Outdoor Weathering Prediction” |
2012-08-08 | Andrew M. Fraser | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: “Maxentropic Markov Chains” |
2012-08-01 | Kevin Lin | University of Arizona | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: “Faster Dynamic Monte Carlo via Markov Couplings” |
2012-07-18 | Alan Schaum | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | James Theiler | ISTC Seminar: “Continuum Fusion: A New Approach to Decision Theory” |
2012-07-11 | Stanley R. Rotman | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | James Theiler | ISTC Seminar: “Evaluating Sub-Pixel Target Detection Algorithms in Hyper-Spectral Imagery” |
2012-06-13 | Dave Ackley | University of New Mexico | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: “A Machine for Robust-First Computing” |
2012-06-06 | George Cybenko | Dartmouth | Joshua Neil | ISTC Seminar: “Computational Behavioral Analysis” |
2012-05-30 | David Mascareñas | Los Alamos National Laboratory | James Theiler | ISTC Seminar: “Cyber-Physical Security for Forward-Deployed, Unattended, Measurement Systems and Mobile Robots” |
2012-05-23 | Lars Koesterke | Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) | Casey Meakin | ISTC Seminar: "The Future of High Performance Computing for Physicists/Astrophysicists" |
2012-05-09 | Pentti Kanerva | UC Berkeley, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuros | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Hyperdimensional Computing as a Model of the Brain's Computing" |
2012-05-02 | Gary Cottrell | University of California, San Diego | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Efficient Coding: From Retina Ganglion Cells to V2 Cells" |
2012-04-25 | Alexander Ihler | UC Irvine | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "Mixed Inference Algorithms for Estimation and Decisions in Graphical Models" |
2012-04-18 | Peter Chew | Galisteo Consulting Group | Kary Myers | ISTC Seminar: "Solving Big Data Problems: From Heuristics to Theory" |
2012-04-18 | Max Welling | UC Irvine | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "Improving Belief Propagation with Cycle Bases and Cluster Cumulants" |
2012-04-11 | Nigel Newton | University of Essex, United Kingdom | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "A Statistical Manifold Modelled on Hilbert Space, with Applications to Nonlinear Filtering" |
2012-03-22 | Daniel Dennett | Tufts University | David Wolpert | ISTC Seminar: "Practical vs.'Theoretical' Free Will" |
2012-03-21 | Kiri Wagstaff | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | James Theiler | ISTC Seminar: "Eyes Wide Open: Iterative Discovery in Large Data Sets without Premature Specialization" |
2012-03-14 | Frank Stein | IBM Watson | Steven Brumby | ISTC Seminar: "Watson: IBM's Latest Grand Challenge" |
2012-03-07 | Bette Korber | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Transforming Under Pressure: A Evolutionary Tale of Two Pathogens, HIV and M. tuberculosis" |
2012-03-01 | Armand Makowski | University of Maryland | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "Scaling Laws in Random Threshold Graphs" |
2012-02-29 | Armand Makowski | University of Maryland | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "On the Critical Transmission Range in One-dimensional Random Networks under Non-uniform Node Placement" |
2012-02-22 | James Theiler | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Clairvoyance and Confusion: Some Remarks on the Composite Hypothesis Testing Problem" |
2012-02-15 | Reid Porter | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Statistics, Semantics, Inference and Learning: How to Use the Force" |
2012-02-08 | Michalis Faloutsos | University of California, Riverside | Stephan Eidenbenz | ISTC Seminar: "Detecting Malware: Traffic Classification, Botnets, and Facebook Scams" |
2012-01-18 | David Wolpert | LANL | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "From Game Theory to Game Engineering" |
2012-01-11 | Uzi Vishkin | University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Comp | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "Current Mainstream Computing: If in a hole, should we keep digging?" |
2011-12-20 | Laura Smith | University of California, Los Angeles | Nick Hengartner | ISTC Student/Postdoc Seminar: "Modeling Street Gang Rivalries in Los Angeles" |
2011-11-30 | Valerio Mante and David Sussillo | Stanford University | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Integration and Gating of Sensory Information is Achieved by a Single Cortical Circuit with Orthogonal Mixed Representations" |
2011-10-12 | Joseph M. Hilbe | Arizona State University | Elizabeth Kelly & Kary Myers | ISTC Seminar: "Recent Advances in Astrostatistics: Guidelines for the Future" |
2011-08-31 | Tsvi Achler | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Student/Postdoc Seminar: "Computing, Learning, and Estimating, Under the Inverse" |
2011-08-24 | Stanley Rotman | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | James Theiler | ISTC Seminar: "Target Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery with Singular Covariance Matrices" |
2011-08-18 | Joel Tropp | Caltec | Nick Hengartner | ISTC Seminar: "Finding Structure with Randomness: Probabilistic Algorithms for Constructing Low-Rank Matrix Decompositions" |
2011-08-03 | Nick Heard and Melissa Turcotte | Imperial College London | Joshua Neil | ISTC Seminar: "Bayesian Anomaly Detection Methods for Social Networks" |
2011-08-03 | Niall M. Adams | Imperial College London | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Streaming Change Point Detection Methods" |
2011-07-27 | Zheping Ji | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Student/Postdoc Seminar: "Deep Generative Models of Primate Visual Cortex" |
2011-07-20 | Gary Horne and Steve Anderson | Naval Postgraduate School | Scott Doebling | ISTC Seminar: "Data Farming and the Exploration of Inter-agency and Inter-disciplinary "What If?" Questions and Solutions" |
2011-07-13 | Andrew Marshall | Purdue | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Student/Postdoc Seminar: "Human Response to Supersonic Aircraft Noise - the Development of a Startle Model" |
2011-06-29 | Gerard Medioni | USC | Alexei Skurikhin | ISTC Seminar: "Wide Area Airborne Surveillance: Opportunities and Challenges" |
2011-06-22 | Ilya Safro | Argonne National Laboratory | Alexander "Sasha" Gutfraind | ISTC Seminar: "Multiscale Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems on Networks" |
2011-05-24 | Frederica Darema | USAF | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "InfoSymbiotics - The power of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS)" |
2011-05-18 | Leonid Gurvits | LANL | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Hyperbolicity, (Strong) Log-Concavity, Complexity and All That Jazz" |
2011-05-04 | Ulisses M. Braga-Neto | Texas A&M | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Signal Processing Applications in Biomarker Discovery and Inference of Boolean Regulatory Networks" |
2011-04-13 | Max Versace | Boston University | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Brain-Inspired Computing" |
2011-04-13 | Greg Snider | Hewlett Packard Labs | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Building Brains with Memristive Memory" |
2011-04-13 | Ennio Mingolla | Boston University | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "The Unexpected Units of Vision" |
2011-04-07 | Reid Priedhorsky | IBM | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Geographic Wikis and Beyond" |
2011-03-30 | Antonis Papachristodoulou | Oxford | Marian Anghel | ISTC Seminar: "Nonlinear Systems Analysis tools using Sum of Squares" |
2011-03-09 | Randy Bryant | Carnegie Mellon University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Data-Intensive Scalable Computing: Finding the Right Programming Models" |
2011-02-16 | Claire Monteleoni | Columbia | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Tracking Climate Models: Advances in Climate Informatics" |
2011-02-09 | Vince Clark | Mind Institute | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Acceleration of Learning to Identify Concealed Threats using Brain Stimulation Targeted with Neuroimaging" |
2011-01-26 | Hugh Chipman | Acadia University | Alexander "Sasha" Gutgraind | ISTC Seminar: "Discovery and Prediction in Email Networks via Statistical Modelling" |
2010-12-08 | Hod Lipson | Cornell University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data: From cognitive robotics to particle physics to computational biology" |
2010-12-01 | David Saad | Aston University | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "The Statistical Physics of Noisy Computation" |
2010-10-20 | Pablo A. Parrilo | MIT | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "Consistency of Preferences and Near-Potential Games" |
2010-10-13 | Dileep George | Numenta | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "How to build a brain without solving it" |
2010-10-06 | James Theiler | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Anomalous Change Detection" |
2010-09-29 | Greg Stephens | Princeton | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Do we click? Speaker-listener neural coupling underlies successful communication" |
2010-09-28 | Juyang Weng | Michigan State University | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "A 5-Chunk Brain-Mind Network Model" |
2010-09-22 | Pedro Domingos | Washington University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Markov Logic Networks: A Language for Statistical Relational Learning" |
2010-09-15 | Jacek Becla | Stanford University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Real Life Data Intensive Applications - Challenges and Solutions" |
2010-08-25 | Ari Rosenberg | Washington University in St. Louis | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "A Nonlinear Coding Scheme in the Early Visual System" |
2010-07-21 | Kirk Borne | George Mason University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Astroinformatics: Data-Oriented Astronomy Research and Education" |
2010-07-07 | Ankur Srivastava | Rice University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Acceleration of Surrogate Modeling with Machine Learning Techniques" |
2010-06-23 | Jonathan Yedidia | Mitsubishi | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "Probabilistic Inference Using Divide & Concur and Belief Propagation" |
2010-06-16 | Pirooz Vakili | Boston University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "DataBase Monte Carlo (DBMC) and Generic Control Variates for Efficient Parametric Estimation" |
2010-05-19 | Peter Doerschuk | Cornell University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Statistical Inference for Dynamical Structural Biology" |
2010-05-12 | David Marchette | Naval Surface Warfare Center | Josh Neil | ISTC Seminar: "Time Series of Attributed Graphs" |
2010-04-21 | Christian Reidys | Nankai University | Stephan Eidenbenz | ISTC Seminar: "Robustness and Plasticity in RNA" |
2010-04-14 | Edward Dougherty | Texas A&M | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Epistemology of Small-Sample Classification" |
2010-04-08 | Sanjay Shakkottai | UT Austin | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: "Scheduling for Small Delays in Multi-channel Wireless Networks" |
2010-03-31 | Eric Matzner-Lober | University Rennes 2, France | Nick Hengartner | ISTC Seminar: "Iterative Bias Reduction for Multivariate Smoothers" |
2010-03-24 | Yannis Paschalidis | Boston University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Statistical Anomaly Detection with Applications in Cybersecurity" |
2010-03-10 | Hans Ziock | LANL | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Information, A New Approach" |
2010-03-03 | Clint Scovel | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Radial Kernels in Learning Theory" |
2010-02-24 | Henry Abarbanel | UCSD | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: “State and Parameter Estimation in Models of Nonlinear Systems" |
2010-02-10 | Chris Brislawn | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Group Lifting Structures for Wavelet Transforms and Multirate Filter Banks" |
2010-02-03 | Jinyi Qi | UC Davis | Konstantin Borozdin | ISTC Seminar: "Bayesian Image Reconstruction for Muon Tomography" |
2010-01-27 | Kunihiko Fukushima | Kansai University, Japan | Luis Bettencourt | ISTC Seminar: "Use of Blur in Neural Networks for Vision" |
2010-01-20 | Islam Hussein | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Search and Classification Decision-Making for Mobile Sensor Coverage of Large-Scale Domains" |
2010-01-13 | Alexandre Megretski | MIT | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Accounting for Robustness in Optimization-Based Identification of Nonlinear Models" |
2010-01-06 | Richard Hughes | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Quantum Key Distribution: Longer Ranges and Stronger Security with Superconducting Detectors and Decoy States" |
2009-12-16 | Damian Eads | LANL & University of California, UCSC | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Learning Task-specific Object Location Predictors with Boosting and Grammar-guided Feature Extraction" |
2009-12-02 | Yannis Kevrekidis | Princeton University | Turab Lookman | ISTC Seminar: "Coarse-graining Agent-based Computations: Equation-free and Variable-free Computations" |
2009-11-18 | Amy M. Guthormsen | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Using Neurophysiological Markers to Measure Conceptual Integration between Mathematical and Semantic Information" |
2009-11-04 | Andy Fraser | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Measurement Selection and Receiver Operating Characteristics" |
2009-10-21 | Anna Matsekh | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: "Numerical Aspects of Image Segmentation" |
2009-10-14 | Huriye Atamturktur | LANL and Clemson University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: "Predicative Maturity: A Quantitative Metric for Optimizing Complex Simulations via Systematic Experimental Validation" |
2009-10-07 | Steven P. Brumby | LANL | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: Large-scale Functional Models of Visual Cortex for Computer Vision and Remote Sensing |
2009-09-23 | James W. Kroger | New Mexico State University | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: Frontopolar Cortex and Complex Thought |
2009-08-05 | Alexander Szalay | Johns Hopkins University | Frank Alexander | ISTC Seminar: Science in an Exponential World |
2009-05-13 | Charless C. Fowlkes | University of California, Irvine | Alexei Skurikhin | ISTC Student Seminar: Direct Neural Imaging using Ultra-Low Field MRI |
2009-04-22 | Fred Roberts | Rutgers University | Nick Hengartner | ISTC Seminar: Dynamic Data Analysis for Homeland Security |
2009-04-15 | Melanie Mitchell | Portland State University | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: Using Analogy with Pictures |
2009-04-01 | Mikhail Belkin | Ohio State University | John Hogden | ISTC Seminar: Manifold and Semi-supervised Learning using Laplace Operations |
2009-03-11 | Don Johnson | Rice University | Ilya Nemenman & Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: Information Theory and Neural Information Processing |
2009-03-10 | Sridevi Sarma | MIT | | ISTC Seminar-Closed -Loop Simulation for Parkinson's Disease |
2009-03-10 | Munther Dahleh | MIT | | ISTC Seminar-Fundamental Limitations of Networked Decision Systems |
2009-03-04 | David Gamarnik | MIT | Misha Chertkov | ISTC Seminar: Statistical Physics and Algorithms for Graph Counting Problems |
2009-02-25 | Rex Jung | UNM, The Mind Research Network | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: The Creative Brain: From Neuromythology to Neuroscience |
2009-01-21 | Todd Leen | Oregon Health & Science University | Andy Fraser | ISTC Seminar: Stochastic Learning in Brains and Machines |
2008-10-29 | Les Atlas | Washington University | John Hogden | ISTC Seminar: Acoustic Scene Analysis, Complex Modulations and a New Form of Filtering |
2008-10-22 | Dan Hammerstrom | Portland State University | Garrett Kenyon | ISTC Seminar: Intelligent Computation with CMOL |