Seminars
The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of the Whiting School of Engineering on the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University hosts a weekly colloquium on Thursdays at 4:00 PM on the third floor of Whitehead Hall, Room 304. (Refreshments begin at 3:30 PM in Room 301.)
Some additional seminars are scheduled on Fridays and occasionally on other days. Student seminars are usually scheduled on Tuesdays at 4:00 PM in Whitehead Hall, Room 304.
Roughly half the seminars feature talks by faculty in the department; others are given by distinguished visitors.
Seminars are held in 304 Whitehead Hall unless otherwise noted. Here are directions to the Homewood Campus and to Whitehead Hall. You can subscribe to email announcements of our seminars.
The seminars Web page is maintained by Professor Jim Fill: jimfill@jhu.edu. (last update: April 30, 2008)
Seminars Schedule for Spring 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Ning Cai, Columbia University
JUMP DIFFUSION PROCESSES IN FINANCIAL MODELING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Yingying Li, The University of Chicago
ARE VOLATILITY ESTIMATORS ROBUST WITH RESPECT TO MODELING ASSUMPTIONS?
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Stephan R. Sain, University of Colorado Denver
MODELS AND MODELS: STATISTICAL APPROACHES TO COMBINING REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL OUTPUT
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
(4:00 PM in 304 Whitehead Hall)
Tim Siu-Tang Leung, Princeton University
UTILITY-BASED VALUATION OF EMPLOYEE STOCK OPTIONS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
*CANCELED*: Thursday, February 14, 2008
Michael Ludkovski, University of Michigan
OPTIMAL STOPPING AND OPTIMAL SWITCHING FOR HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
(4:00 PM in 304 Whitehead Hall)
Vladislav Kargin, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
LATTICE OPTION PRICING BY MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INTERPOLATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Andrew B. Vizcarra, Purdue University
PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION UNDER STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
*CANCELED*: Tuesday, February 26, 2008
(4:00 PM in 304 Whitehead Hall)
Deniz Sezer, York University
INFORMATION REDUCTION VIA LEVEL CROSSINGS IN A CREDIT RISK MODEL
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Lowell Abrams, The George Washington University
PERIODICITY AND OTHER STRUCTURE IN A FAMILY OF NIM-LIKE ARRAYS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, March 4, 2008, student seminar
Xue (Mary) Lin, The Johns Hopkins University
RXA: ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION MICROARRAYS BASED ON EXPRESSION ORDERINGS
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Robert P. W. Duin, Delft University, The Netherlands
TRAINING CLASSIFIERS FOR NON-EUCLIDEAN DATA
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, March 11, 2008, student seminar
Joshua Vogelstein, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
MODEL-BASED OPTIMAL INFERENCE USING A SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO
EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHM GIVEN NOISY AND INTERMITTENT
FLUORESCENCE IMAGING OF NEURAL ACTIVITY
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Donald Geman, The Johns Hopkins University
STATIONARY FEATURES AND CAT DETECTION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, March 27, 2008
no seminar
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Stéphanie Allassonnière, The Johns Hopkins University
REPRESENTATION AND STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF DEFORMABLE TEMPLATE MODELS
FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION AND COMPUTATIONAL ANATOMY
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Laurent Younes, The Johns Hopkins University
METAMORPHOSIS: A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR METRIC REGISTRATION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, student seminar
Elizabeth (Libby) Beer, The Johns Hopkins University
TORUS GRAPH INFERENCE FOR DETECTION OF LOCALIZED ACTIVITY
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Beryl Castello, The Johns Hopkins University
A MAXIMIN LOCATION PROBLEM HEURISTIC
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
4:00 PM in 111 Mergenthaler Hall
preceded by a reception at 3:00 PM in the Sherwood Room, Levering Union
SIMCA Colloquium
Lawrence Craig Evans, University of California, Berkeley
A NONLINEAR PDE MODEL FOR LAKES AND RIVERS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Thursday, April 24, 2008
213 Hodson Hall
preceded by light refreshments at 3:30 PM in 301 Whitehead Hall
The 2008 Acheson J. Duncan Lecture
Yali Amit, The University of Chicago
STATISTICAL MODELS IN COMPUTER VISION
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Friday, April 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM
followed by a luncheon reception in 301 Whitehead Hall
Yali Amit, The University of Chicago
ESTIMATION OF DEFORMABLE OBJECT MODELS
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 12:00 noon, student seminar
Valentina Staneva, The Johns Hopkins University
EXACT RECONSTRUCTION OF SPARSE SIGNALS FROM VERY FEW MEASUREMENTS
( read the abstract: postscript /pdf )
Thursday, May 1, 2008
213 Hodson Hall
followed by a small reception in 301 Whitehead Hall
The Third John C. and Susan S. G. Wierman Lecture
Barry Nussbaum, United States Environmental Protection Agency
GREENHOUSE, WHITE HOUSE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS:
THE USE OF STATISTICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING
( read the abstract: postscript / pdf )