Unsupervised Learning Working Group
Winter 2005

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

Winter 2005 Schedule:

Tuesdays, Padelford C-301, 3:30-5:00pm

Tuesday January 11, 2005
Rebecca Nugent, Department of Statistics, UW
"MST. Interval Revisited"

Slides



Tuesday January 18, 2005
Alejandro Murua, Department of Statistics, UW
"Potts Models Revisited"

Slides



Tuesday January 25, 2005
Jeff Bilmes, Department of Electrical Engineering, UW
"Representation and Computation Aspects of Dynamic Graphical Models"



Tuesday February 1, 2005
Peter Hoff, Department of Statistics, UW
"Dirichlet Mixture Models for (subspace) clustering"

Preprint



Tuesday February 8, 2005
Yanming Di, Department of Statistics, UW
"Maximum Certainty Data Partitioning"

Roberts, Everson, Rezek



Tuesday February 15, 2005
Rebecca Nugent, Nema Dean Department of Statistics, UW
"Variable Selection: Model-Based, Nonparametric, and Sufficient Dimension Reduction"

Variable Selection in Sufficient Dimension Reduction: Li, Cook



Tuesday February 22, 2005
No meeting


Tuesday March 1, 2005
No meeting


Tuesday March 8, 2005
Ah-Young Youn, McLean Sloughter, Department of Statistics, UW
"Linear & Non-linear Approaches to Modeling Gene Expression Levels"

Middendorf, Kundaje, Wiggins, Freund, Leslie