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  • 4/29 Statistics Colloquium, Prof. Ming Yuan

    DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

    Statistics Colloquium

    University of Connecticut

    Storrs, Connecticut

     

    The Department of Statistics Cordially invites you to a Colloquium

     

    Professor Ming Yuan

    Department of Statistics

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

     

    Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding

     

    ABSTRACT

     

     

     

    Motivated by the problem of visualizing diversity of clinically extracted Vpu protein sequences in HIV-1 patients and a couple of other applications in structural biology, we investigate effective ways of recovering an Euclidean distance matrix from noisy observations.

     

     

     

     

    DATE:  Wednesday, April 29, 2015

    TIME:  4:00 p.m.

    PLACE: AUST 105

    Coffee at 3:30 in AUST 326

    For more information, contact: Tracy Burke at tracy.burke@uconn.edu