Colloquium Talk Katherine Brumberg, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Monday November 6, 2023 at 4PM Rocky 312 Title: Optimal Stratification to Address Selection Bias in Observational Studies Abstract: Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for determining a treatment effect. … Continue reading
Curious about pursuing graduate studies in applied math, pure math, or statistics but not sure what that entails or requires? Join us on Thursday, November 9th at 4pm in Rocky 200 for an information session on the what, why, and how … Continue reading
Colloquium Talk Hung Tong, The University of Alabama Friday November 10, 2023 at 4PM Rocky 312 Title: Robust and Flexible Model-Based Clustering for Incomplete Data Abstract: Model-based clustering is an important class of cluster analysis that aims to produce smaller … Continue reading
Data Science & Society (DSS) Colloquium Talk Rob Williams, Data Scientist Remote Sensing at Bayer Crop Science Friday November 10, 2023 at 5PM New England 206 Title: Data Science for Plants For the full DSS Colloquium Series Schedule, visit: https://pages.vassar.edu/dss/colloquium-series-schedule/
Colloquium Talk Shaoyang Ning, Williams College Monday November 13, 2023 at 4PM Rocky 312 Title: Using Google search data for localized flu tracking Abstract: Big data from the Internet has great potential to track social and economic events at multiple … Continue reading
Title: The Mathematics of Tilings Abstract: Imagine we are hired to tile an infinitely large bathroom floor. What tile shapes could we use? We will use math to explore and refine this question to make sure that our client is … Continue reading
LAVA Talk on Software Development with Carl Gutowski (VC '85), SS&C | Innovest Systems. Friday, December 1, 2023 at 3PM in Rocky 312. About Carl: Come hear about Carl's path from Vassar to SS&C | Innovest Systems, where he is … Continue reading
Colloquium Talk Robin Belton, Smith College Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 1PM Rocky 312 Title: Adaptive Algorithms in Geometric and Topological Visualization Abstract: Geometry and Topology have been increasingly used to visualize and summarize the "shape" of data. Mapper is … Continue reading
Data Science & Society (DSS) Colloquium Talk with Brenden Lake, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science at New York University, on Wednesday February 7 at 5PM in Rocky 300. Title: Addressing two classic debates in cognitive science with deep … Continue reading
Join us on Thursday February 8 at 5PM in Rocky 300 for the first of two Asprey Lecturers delivered by Professor Laura DeMarco. Harvard University. Title: From the solar system to the Mandelbrot set Abstract: The field of dynamical systems has … Continue reading