Colloquium: Benjamin Berg (Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill)
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesOptimal Scheduling of Elastic and Inelastic Jobs A wide range of modern computer systems rely on parallelism to process jobs quickly. Unlike the jobs considered in most classical scheduling problems, parallelizable jobs can be completed more quickly when they are … Read more
STOR Colloquium: Xiao Shen, University of Utah
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesRandom growth models and the KPZ universality Many two-dimensional random growth models, including first- and last-passage percolation, are conjectured to fall within the KPZ universality class under mild assumptions on the underlying noise. In recent years, researchers have focused on … Read more
STOR Colloquium: Benjamin Seeger, University of Texas at Austin
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEquations on Wasserstein Space and Applications to Stochastic Mean Field Control and Games The study of controlled multi-agent systems has seen increased interest in recent years, due to their ubiquity in applications coming from macroeconomics, social behavior, and telecommunications. When … Read more
STOR Colloquium: Aaron Palmer, University of California, Los Angeles
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPhase Transitions in Stochastic Many-Player Games My research addresses stochastic games with many players, optimal control with partial information, and, recently, optimization with random matrices. This seminar focuses on a stochastic game where the players exhibit qualitatively distinct behaviors in … Read more
STOR Colloquium: Elizabeth Collins-Woodfin, McGill University
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSpherical Spin Glasses and Stochastic Gradient Descent This talk will focus on two strands of my recent research – spin glasses and stochastic gradient descent (SGD). While the contexts are different, both draw on tools from high-dimensional probability to study … Read more
STOR Colloquium: Youngtak Sohn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPhase Transitions of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems The framework of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) captures many fundamental problems in combinatorics and computer science, such as finding a proper coloring of a graph or solving Boolean satisfiability problems. To study the … Read more
Ph. D Defense Haixu Ma
Hanes 115 150 E Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesTuesday February 6, 2024 11:00 AM Location: 115 Hanes Hall Zoom Link for virtual attendance: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4570368947 Haixu Ma Flexible Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Decision Making (Under the direction of Yufeng Liu and Donglin Zeng) Abstract: Machine learning and … Read more
Colloquium – Peter Song University of Michigan
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesPeter Song, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan Title: Supervised Homogeneity Pursuit via Mixed Integer Optimization Abstract: Stratification is one statistical principle in data processing to mitigate the underlying population heterogeneity, which is typically handled by clustering when stratum labels are … Read more
Colloquium- Ray Bai University of South Carolina
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesTITLE: Generative Quantile Regression with Variability Penalty ABSTRACT: Quantile regression and conditional density estimation can reveal structure that is missed by mean regression, such as multimodality and skewness. In this talk, we introduce a deep learning generative model for joint quantile estimation … Read more
Colloquium- Sajad Modaresi University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesSajad Mordaresi Kenan-Flagler Business School University of Northing Carolina at Chapel Hill Exploration Optimization for Dynamic Assortment Personalization under Linear Preferences Abstract We study the dynamic assortment personalization problem of an online retailer that adaptively customizes assortments based on … Read more
RTG Lunch in Spring 2024
Carolina Union 3206AB 209 South Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesRTG Lunch in Spring 2024 Time: 12:30 – 1:45 pm, Mar 19, 2024 Location: Carolina Union Room 3206AB (209 South Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27599) Support: This luncheon is supported by RTG grant (NSF DMS-2134107) Event Link: https://networks-pods-rtg.unc.edu/event/rtg-women-luncheon-spring-2024/ RTG website: https://networks-pods-rtg.unc.edu/ Contact: Yao Li (yaoli@email.unc.edu) … Read more