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Boot Camp

Linear Algebra 8-9am (remote) Analysis 11-12pm (Hanes Hall 125)

Southeastern Probability Conference

Phillips 215

The Statistics and Operations research department is organizing the second installment of the Southeastern Probability Conference 2022 (the first  SEPC of 2022 was held at the end of May, 2022 at Duke). Here you can find general information about the … Read more

CWE Exams

107 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Papers 634 & 635

CWE Exams

107 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Papers 654 & 655

Boot Camp

Linear Algebra 8-9am (remote) Analysis 11-12pm (Hanes Hall 125)

Department Orientation

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Orientation for incoming graduate students.

CWE Exams

107 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Papers 664 & 665 closed book portion 9am-11am open book portion 1pm-5pm

Focused Research Group in Network Representation Learning

308 Gardner Hall

Representation learning, and in particular graph representation, is one of the most important cross-disciplinary machine learning techniques to have emerged in the last five years with significant impact in a host of domain applications including computer science (natural language processing, … Read more

Grad Student Seminar

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Discussions about different areas of research, advisors.

Graduate Student Seminar: Pavlos Zoubouloglou

Large Deviations for Small Noise Diffusions Over Long Time Abstract: We study two problems. First, we consider the large deviation behavior of empirical measures of certain diffusion processes as, simultaneously, the time horizon becomes large and noise becomes vanishingly small. … Read more

STOR Colloquium: Gabor Pataki, UNC Chapel Hill

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are some of the most popular and widespread optimization problems to emerge in  the last thirty years. A curious pathology of SDPs is  illustrated by a famous example of Khachiyan: feasible solutions of SDPs may need exponential space to … Read more

Grad Student Seminar: Michael Nisenzon

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Factoring Polynomials via the Splitting Circle Method  Abstract: Finding the roots of a polynomial is an ill-conditioned problem that requires numerical methods in the general case. Unfortunately, most existing numerical methods do not guarantee convergence when working in finite precision. … Read more

IDEAS Seminar: Greg Forest, UNC

125 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The modeling and computational hurdles in transitioning from engineered to biological polymeric systems