Unsupervised Learning Working Group
Fall 2005

The group will focus mainly on Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Learning Methods.
Organizers: Werner Stuetzle , Rebecca Nugent and McLean Sloughter




Fall 2005 Schedule:
Friday, Padelford CSSS Conference Room, 3:30-5:00 pm.


Wednesday September 28, 2005
Brendan Murphy, Department of Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
"Parsimonious Gaussian Mixture Models"

Slides



Friday October 7, 2005
McLean Sloughter, Department of Statistics, UW
"COSA: The Breakthrough"

Friedman



Friday October 14, 2005
No meeting


Friday October 21, 2005
Albert Kim, Department of Statistics, UW
"Overview of Simulated Annealing"



Friday October 28, 2005
No meeting


Friday November 4, 2005
Susan Shortreed, Department of Statistics, UW
"Spectral Energy Minimization for Semi-Supervised Learning"

Li, Wu



Friday November 11, 2005
No meeting


Friday November 18, 2005
Werner Stuetzle, Department of Statistics, UW
"Introduction to Projection Pursuit"

Slides



Friday November 25, 2005
No meeting


Friday December 2, 2005
Marina Meila, Department of Statistics, UW
"The Stability of a Good Clustering"



Friday December 9, 2005
No meeting