BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:682ad0d350a93 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160512T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160512T160000 URL:/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro tt-distinguished-lecture-martin-wainwright SUMMARY:David Sprott Distinguished Lecture by Martin Wainwright\, Universit y of\nCalifornia\, Berkeley CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nSOME NEW PHENOMENA IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL STATISTICS A ND OPTIMIZATION\n\nStatistical models in which the ambient dimension is of the same order\nor larger than the sample size arise frequently in differ ent areas of\nscience and engineering.  Examples include sparse regressio n in\ngenomics\; graph selection in social network analysis\; and low-rank \nmatrix estimation in video segmentation.  Although high-dimensional\nmo dels of this type date back to seminal work of Kolmogorov and\n DTSTAMP:20250519T063355Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR