Abstract: Many statistical and computational tasks boil down to comparing probability measures expressed as density functions, clouds of data points, or generative models. In this setting, we often are unable to […]
Abstract: Conditional independence (CI) is an important tool instatistical modeling, as, for example, it gives a statistical interpretation to graphical models. In general, given a list of dependencies among random variables, […]
Abstract: In spatial population genetics, it is important to understand the probability of extinction in multi-species interactions such as growing bacterial colonies, cancer tumor evolution and human migration. This is because […]
Abstract: The recent success of neural networks enables a better interpretation of 3D point clouds, but processing a large-scale 3D scene remains a challenging problem. Most current approaches divide a large-scale […]
Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Jianfeng Lu, Duke UniversityTitle: Surface hopping algorithms for non-adiabatic quantum systems Abstract: Surface hopping algorithm is widely used in chemistry for mixed quantum-classical dynamics. In this talk, […]
Abstract: The statistical analysis of genomic data has incubated many innovations for computational method development. This talk will discuss some simple algorithms that may be useful in analyzing such data. Examples […]
Abstract: Entanglement is a type of correlation found in composite quantum systems, connected with various non-classical phenomena. Currently, entanglement plays a key role in quantum information applications such as quantum computing, […]
Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Fouad El Baidouri, Broad Institute Title: The phenotype of the last universal common ancestor and the evolution of complexity Abstract: A fundamental concept in evolutionary theory […]
Abstract: Introducing internal degrees of freedom in the description of crystalline insulators has led to a myriad of theoretical and experimental advances. Of particular interest are the effects of periodic […]
Abstract: The establishment of neural circuitry during early infancy is critical for developing visual, auditory, and motor functions. However, how cortical tissue develops postnatally is largely unknown. By combining T1 relaxation time from […]
CMSA Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Sumit Sinha, Harvard University Title: Statistical Mechanical theory for spatio-temporal evolution of Intra-tumor heterogeneity in cancers: Analysis of Multiregion sequencing data (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10595) Abstract: Variations in characteristics from one […]
Interdisciplinary Science Seminar Speaker: Yang P. Liu Title: Recent Advances on Maximum Flows and Minimum-Cost Flows Abstract: We survey recent advances on computing flows in graphs, culminating in an almost linear […]