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Event Series STORFest Celebration

STORFest Celebration

Carolina Club 150 Stadium Dr., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

STOR Fest is the celebration of the department of Statistics and Operations Research turning 20 years! This coincides with the 75th anniversary of Statistics and 50th anniversary of Operations Research at Carolina. Return to campus to reconnect with your friends and join us … Read more

Event Series STORFest Celebration

STORFest Celebration

Carolina Club 150 Stadium Dr., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

STOR Fest is the celebration of the department of Statistics and Operations Research turning 20 years! This coincides with the 75th anniversary of Statistics and 50th anniversary of Operations Research at Carolina. Return to campus to reconnect with your friends and join us … Read more

Event Series STORFest Celebration

STORFest Celebration

Carolina Club 150 Stadium Dr., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

STOR Fest is the celebration of the department of Statistics and Operations Research turning 20 years! This coincides with the 75th anniversary of Statistics and 50th anniversary of Operations Research at Carolina. Return to campus to reconnect with your friends and join us … Read more

Lecture Series-Greg Terlov

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

   Introduction to Stein’s method Abstract: In this lecture series I will give a gentle introduction to Stein's method for proving distributional convergence. In 1972 Charles Stein combined Gaussian integration by parts with a certain “noise robustness” property of a sequence … Read more

Lecture Series-Greg Terlov

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

   Introduction to Stein’s method Abstract: In this lecture series I will give a gentle introduction to Stein's method for proving distributional convergence. In 1972 Charles Stein combined Gaussian integration by parts with a certain “noise robustness” property of a sequence … Read more

IDEAS Seminar- David Aldous (UC Berkeley)

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

Short Biography:David Aldous is Professor Emeritus in the Statistics Dept at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of "Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic" and (with Jim Fill) of a notorious unfinished online work "Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks … Read more

Lecture Series-Greg Terlov

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

   Introduction to Stein’s method Abstract: In this lecture series I will give a gentle introduction to Stein's method for proving distributional convergence. In 1972 Charles Stein combined Gaussian integration by parts with a certain “noise robustness” property of a sequence … Read more

Colloquium: Arka Ghosh (Iowa State University)

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

Existence of MLEs for the parameters of an adjusted linear preferential attachment model of random graphs with covariates In this talk, we consider a variation on the preferential attachment model (PAM) of random graphs with covariates. It is similar to … Read more

Lecture Series-Greg Terlov

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

   Introduction to Stein’s method Abstract: In this lecture series I will give a gentle introduction to Stein's method for proving distributional convergence. In 1972 Charles Stein combined Gaussian integration by parts with a certain “noise robustness” property of a sequence … Read more

Colloquium: Tibor Illés, Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary)

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

Sufficient linear complementarity problems: algorithms and computational results Linear complementarity problems (LCP) generalize some fundamental problems of mathematical optimization like linear programming (LP) problem, linearly constrained quadratic programming (LQP) problem and some other. It admits an enormous number of applications … Read more