Statistics/Operations Research/Math Finance Seminar
The Claremont Colleges present a seminar series focusing on Statistics, Operations Research and Mathematical Finance on random Thursdays from 4:15-5:15 in Davidson Lecture Hall at Claremont McKenna College. Refreshments at 4pm. For more information or to suggest speakers, please contact Mark Huber at mhuber@cmc.edu.
Spring 2012 Statistics/OR/Math Finance Seminar
Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Feb/16/2012 | Constructing Network Variables | Austen Head |
| Feb/23/2012 | Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop | Serge Belongie (UC San Diego) |
| Mar/01/2012 | Maternal-Fetal Genotype Incompatibility as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia | Christina Palmer |
| Mar/08/2012 | Analysis of racial profiling by police | Greg Ridgeway (Rand Corporation) |
| Mar/29/2012 | Risk averse capacity control in revenue management | Christiane Barz (UCLA) |
| Apr/12/2012 | Optimal Investment under Model Uncertainty | Scott Robertson (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Apr/19/2012 | Probabilistic Numerical Methods for Fully Nonlinear Parabolic PDEs | Jianfeng Zhang (USC) |
Fall 2011 Statistics/OR/Math Finance Seminar
| Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Oct/20/2011 | Derivative Time Scale Perturbations | Knut Solna, University of California Irvine |
| Nov/03/2011 | Modeling Dependence in a Network of Brain Signals | Hernando Ombao (Department of Biostatistics, Brown University) |
| Nov/03/2011 | Modeling Dependence in a Network of Brain Signals | Hernando Ombao (Brown) |
Spring 2011 Statistics/OR/Math Finance Seminar
| Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Jan/27/2011 | What is the probability of selecting the best t of k populations when k is extremely large? | Jason Wilson, Biola University |
| Feb/24/2011 | Time-Series Classification for Astronomical Surveys | Joseph Richards, UC Berkely |
| Mar/10/2011 | Optimal Toll Design: A Lower Bound Framework for the Traveling Salesman Problem | Alejandro Toriello, USC |
| Mar/24/2011 | A Persistent Random Walk and Options Pricing | Harish Bhat, UC Merced |
| Apr/07/2011 | The effect of payment timing on inventory decisions in a newsvendor experiment | Jordan Tong, Duke |
| Apr/21/2011 | Integer knapsacks and the Frobenius problem | Lenny Fukshansky, CMC |
Fall 2010 Statistics/OR/Math Finance Seminar
| Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Sep/23/2010 | Seminar canceled | Jaksa Cvitatic, CalTech |
| Oct/07/2010 | seminar canceled | Mark Hansen, UCLA |
| Oct/21/2010 | Exploiting Myopic Learning | Mohamed Mostagir, CalTech |
| Nov/04/2010 | Multilevel Methods for Image Deblurring | Malena Espanol, CalTech |
| Nov/18/2010 | Error analysis of meshfree approximation methods based on optimization | Agustin Bompadre, CalTech |
| Dec/02/2010 | Financial Markets Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents | Jaksa Cvitatic, CalTech |
Spring 2010 Statistics/OR/Math Finance Seminar
| Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Feb/11/2010 | Some Multiple Player Gambler’s Ruin Problems | Sheldon Ross, USC |
| Feb/25/2010 | Tonality Algorithms: Determining Keys, Spellings, Boundaries, and Expectation | Elaine Chew, USC |
| Mar/04/2010 | This event has been cancelled | Rene Carmona, Princeton University - Cancelled |
| Mar/11/2010 | Nonparametric Tests for Ranked Data | Anna Bargagliotti, University of Memphis |
| Apr/01/2010 | Sequence Grammars for Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search | Agustin Bompadre, Caltech |
| Apr/15/2010 | Dynamic Pricing of Network Goods with Bounded Rationality | Ami Radunskaya (Pomona) |
| Apr/22/2010 | Market Making and Volatility Trading Strategies | Samuel Kadziela, Chicago Trading Company |
Fall 2009 Statistics/OR/Math Finance Seminar
Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| Dec/03/2009 | TBA | Carol Meyers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Nov/19/2009 | TBA | Herbie Lee |
| Nov/19/2009 | Semiparametric Modeling and Adaptive Sampling Using Treed Gaussian Processes | Herbie Lee Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Nov/05/2009 | Calculating target Cataract Surgical Rates for Africa | Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College |
| Nov/05/2009 | Calculating target Cataract Surgical Rates for Africa | Talithia Williams, HMC |
| Oct/22/2009 | Complex Techno-Social Networks for Epidemic Forecasting | Bruno Goncalves |
| Oct/08/2009 | Algorithm for the Pricing of Path-Dependent American Options Using Malliavin Calculus, with applications to stochastic control | Henry Schellhorn, CGU |
| Sep/17/2009 | Cell Lines, Microarrays, Drugs and Disease: Trying to Predict Response to Chemotherapy | Keith Baggerly, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center |
Spring 2009 Statistics/OR/Math Finance Seminar
| Date: | Title: | Speakers: |
|---|---|---|
| May/07/2009 | Robust Revenue Management | Guillaume Roels (UCLA Anderson School of Management) |
| Apr/23/2009 | Networks in the real world | Ashish Bhan (University of California - Irvine) |
| Apr/09/2009 | Calibration of Stock Betas from Skews of Implied Volatilities | Jean-Pierre Fouque (UCSB) |
| Mar/26/2009 | Outliers when Clustering Microarray Data | Jo Hardin (Pomona) |