Research Interaction Teams for Spring 2009

• Advanced Complexity Theory
  • Dr. William Gasarch
  • First meeting: February 11.
  • Wednesdays, 1-2
  • A. V. Williams Building 3258
  • Requirements: Participants (for credit) must attend all the lectures (can miss with Dr's note) and give at least one lecture.
  • Goals: There has been alot of work in concrete complexity theory. In this theory the models are simple (e.g., Communication Complexity, Decision Trees, Circuits, Branching Programs) hence lower bounds are quite possible (unlike P vs NP). We will read papers that obtain real upper and lower bounds on natural problems in these models (note- ``natural'' is subjective). The results we obtain are ends in themselves in that we will learn the complexity of several problems.
• Topics in Time Series Analysis
  • Ben Kedem,
  • Monday at 6:00 PM -7:00 PM, MATH 1311.
  • First meeting: September 15; Ben Kedem will speak.
• Applied PDE
  • Organizers:
    • Stuart Antman (ssa@math)
    • Sandra Cerrai (cerrai@math)
    • David Levermore (lvrmr@math)
    • Konstantina Trivisa (trivisa@math)
    • Athanasios Tzavaras (tzvaras@math)
  • POSSIBLE CHANGE: 4pm Wednesdays MATH 1308.
• Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab, UMIACS
  • Doug Oard
  • Louiqa Raschid (organizer)
  • Click here for the website.
• Frame Theoretic Methodology for Spectral Doman Dimension Reduction
  • J. J. Benedetto and W. Czaja
  • Thursdays 2-3:30, MTH 2213
• Multispectral Retinal Imaging and Mapping of Naturally Occurring Fluorophore and Chromophore Distributions
  • W. Czaja
  • Mondays 2-3pm, Math 1310.
• Semiparametric Statistics (with applications to survival analysis, functional data and sample surveys)
  • Director: Eric Slud
  • Intended audience: Math/Stat/AMSC grad students who have completed STAT 600-601 and 700-701 and are interested in pursuing theoretical research on statistical inference in models with parameter dimension which is either infinite or growing with sample size.
  • Meeting time: Fridays at 1pm, MTH2400.
  • First meeting Jan. 30; Eric Slud will speak.
• Student Dynamics Seminar
  • Meeting Time: 3:30-5:30 PM Tuesdays
  • Room: 1308 Math Building