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Dejan Slepcev
Carnegie Mellon University
MIT Statistics and Data Science Center host guest lecturers from around the world in this weekly seminar.
Find out more »Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Making Data-Driven Decisions
Developed by 10 MIT faculty members at IDSS, this seven-week course is specially designed for data scientists, business analysts, engineers and technical managers looking to learn strategies to harness data. Offered by MIT xPRO. Course begins Sept 10, 2018.
Find out more »LIDS Seminar Series – Mihaela van der Schaar
Mihaela van der Schaar (University of California, Los Angeles)
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LIDS Seminar Series Speaker: Mihaela van der Schaar Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles ____________________________________ The LIDS Seminar Series features distinguished speakers who provide an overview of a research area, as well as exciting recent progress in that area. Intended for a broad audience, seminar topics span the areas of communications, computation, control, learning, networks, probability and statistics, optimization, and signal processing.
Find out more »Science for Policy 2.0
Vladimír Šucha (Joint Research Centre)
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We live in an increasingly polarized present, looking to a complex and uncertain future while basing our legislative decisions on systems of the past. We need the processes and structures that underpin our political decision-making to be aligned with the complexities of the 21st century. Such changes cannot be undertaken by a technocratic elite, potentially disenfranchising citizens further from their governing institutions. Rather, political institutions must seek to improve transparency, openness, and accountability. The great divide between science and policy…
Find out more »Gregory Wornell
MIT
MIT Statistics and Data Science Center host guest lecturers from around the world in this weekly seminar.
Find out more »LIDS Seminar Series – Regret of Queueing Bandits
Sanjay Shakkotai (University of Texas, Austin)
32-155
LIDS Seminar Series Speaker: Sanjay Shakkotai Affiliation: University of Texas, Austin Abstract: We consider a variant of the multiarmed bandit (MAB) problem where jobs or tasks queue for service, and service rates of different servers (agents) may be unknown. Such (queueing+learning) problems are motivated by a vast range of service systems, including supply and demand in online platforms (e.g., Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Upwork, etc.), order flow in financial markets (e.g., limit order books), communication systems, and supply chains. We study…
Find out more »Boaz Nadler
Weizmann Institute
MIT Statistics and Data Science Center host guest lecturers from around the world in this weekly seminar.
Find out more »LIDS Seminar Series – Sewoong Oh
Sewoong Oh (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
32-155
LIDS Seminar Series Speaker: Sewoong Oh Affiliation: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ____________________________________ The LIDS Seminar Series features distinguished speakers who provide an overview of a research area, as well as exciting recent progress in that area. Intended for a broad audience, seminar topics span the areas of communications, computation, control, learning, networks, probability and statistics, optimization, and signal processing.
Find out more »IDSS Seminar – Brandon Stewart
Brandon Stewart (Princeton University)
Brandon Stewart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and is also affiliated with the Department of Politics and the Office of Population Research. He develops new quantitative statistical methods for applications across the social sciences. Methodologically his focus is in tools which facilitate automated text analysis and model complex heterogeneity in regression. Many recent applications of these methods have centered on using large corpora of text to better understand propaganda in contemporary China. His research has been…
Find out more »Jingbo Liu
MIT
E18-304
MIT Statistics and Data Science Center host guest lecturers from around the world in this weekly seminar.
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