Name: Why Only Us: The Evolution of Language
Start: 2016-03-15T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2016-03-15T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 32-155

News & Events

February 2016
February 5, 2016 @ 11:00 am

Large Average Submatrices of a Gaussian Random Matrix: Landscapes and Local Optima

32-123 , United States

The Stochastics and Statistics Seminar is a weekly meeting organized by the Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). It consists of a series of one-hour presentations by worldwide leaders making cutting edge contributions to methodological and theoretical advances in data science. These fields include probability, statistics, optimization, and applied mathematics. The seminar also regularly features…
February 12, 2016 @ 11:00 am

Principal Components Analysis in Light of the Spiked Model

32-123 , United States

The Stochastics and Statistics Seminar is a weekly meeting organized by the Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). It consists of a series of one-hour presentations by worldwide leaders making cutting edge contributions to methodological and theoretical advances in data science. These fields include probability, statistics, optimization, and applied mathematics. The seminar also regularly features…
February 16, 2016 @ 4:00 pm

How to Predict When Estimation is Hard: Algorithms for Learning on Graphs

32-G449 , United States

The LIDS Seminar Series features distinguished speakers in the information and decision sciences who provide an overview of a research area, as well as exciting recent progress in that area. Intended for a broad audience, seminar topics span the areas of communications, computation, control, learning, networks, probability and statistics, optimization, and signal processing.
February 19, 2016 @ 11:00 am

Incremental Methods for Additive Convex Cost Optimization

32-123 , United States

The Stochastics and Statistics Seminar is a weekly meeting organized by the Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). It consists of a series of one-hour presentations by worldwide leaders making cutting edge contributions to methodological and theoretical advances in data science. These fields include probability, statistics, optimization, and applied mathematics. The seminar also regularly features…
February 26, 2016 @ 11:00 am

On Shape Constrained Estimation

32-123 , United States

The Stochastics and Statistics Seminar is a weekly meeting organized by the Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). It consists of a series of one-hour presentations by worldwide leaders making cutting edge contributions to methodological and theoretical advances in data science. These fields include probability, statistics, optimization, and applied mathematics. The seminar also regularly features…
March 2016
March 1, 2016 @ 4:00 pm

On Programs that Learn to Write Programs

32-155 , United States

The LIDS Seminar Series features distinguished speakers in the information and decision sciences who provide an overview of a research area, as well as exciting recent progress in that area. Intended for a broad audience, seminar topics span the areas of communications, computation, control, learning, networks, probability and statistics, optimization, and signal processing.
March 4, 2016 @ 11:00 am

On Complex Supervised Learning Problems, and On Ranking and Choice Models

32-123 , United States

The Stochastics and Statistics Seminar is a weekly meeting organized by the Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC). It consists of a series of one-hour presentations by worldwide leaders making cutting edge contributions to methodological and theoretical advances in data science. These fields include probability, statistics, optimization, and applied mathematics. The seminar also regularly features…
March 8, 2016 @ 4:00 pm

Randomized Controlled Trials and Policy Making in Developing Countries

32-155 , United States

IDSS Distinguished Seminars is a monthly lecture series featuring prominent global leaders and academics sharing research in areas that include social networks, causal inference, data privacy, computational social science and other areas that are impacted by the emergence of big data.
March 9, 2016 @ 4:00 pm

Geeks and Greeks: The Making of an Epic Graphic Novel about MIT Hacks – Steve Altes (’84) and Andy Fish

10-250 , United States

An evening with Steve Altes and Andy Fish, creators of the MIT-themed humorous graphic novel, Geeks and Greeks, a story of student life at MIT, told through the prism of high-tech hacks.
March 15, 2016 @ 4:00 pm

Why Only Us: The Evolution of Language

32-155 , United States

The LIDS Seminar Series features distinguished speakers in the information and decision sciences who provide an overview of a research area, as well as exciting recent progress in that area. Intended for a broad audience, seminar topics span the areas of communications, computation, control, learning, networks, probability and statistics, optimization, and signal processing.