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