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  • Building Visualization Tools for Mathematical Structure - Spring 2021 Seminar Series
    March 18, 2021
    
    
  • Prestige Lecture 2021 - "Logical Neural Networks: Toward Unifying Statistical and Symbolic AI"
    January 25, 2021
    
    
  • P4-free Partition and Cover Numbers - Fall 2020 Online Series
    November 18, 2020
    
    
  • Distance Encoding: Design Provably More Powerful Neural Networks for Graph Representation Learning
    October 28, 2020
    
    
  • The Power of Pivoting for Exact Clique Counting - Fall 2020 Online Seminar Series
    October 14, 2020
     
  • CSoI Seminar: Information Flow and Representation in Neural Circuits
    Sep 30, 2020

• • Cybernetic Modeling of the Eicosanoid Pathway in the Macrophage Cells - Science of Information Spring 2020 Online Seminar Series
    May 20, 2020

• • Data Science Methods for Cross-National Exploration of Secondary Math Teacher Preparation - Science of Information Spring 2020 Online Seminar Series
    May 6, 2020

• • Using big data to address forest responses to climate change - Science of Information Spring 2020 Online Seminar Series
    Apr 22, 2020

• • Feature Selection for Supervised Binary Classification - Science of Information Spring 2020 Online Seminar Series
    Apr 8, 2020

• • Science of Information Spring 2020 Seminar Series - Join Us Online
    Apr 7, 2020

• • Data Science and Digital Agriculture Seminar Series
    Feb 22, 2019

• • From Communication to Information Processing: An information Theoretic Perspective
    Jan 23, 2019

• • Sebastian Wild - Succinct Data Structures For Range Minimum Problems
    Oct 24, 2018

• • Safiya Noble - Algorithms of Oppression
    Oct 3, 2018

• • Negar Kiyavash - Network Inference: from Passive to Active Learning
    Aug 8, 2018

• • Yanina Shkel - Conversation Dynamics of Language Code Switching
    May 17, 2018

• • Remco van der Hofstad - The Structure of Complex Networks: Scale-Free and Small-World Random Graphs
    Apr 23, 2018 | Video

• • Irena Fischer-Hwang - Denoising of Aligned Genomic Data
    Mar 15, 2018

• • Visual Trumpery: How to fight against fake data and visualizations - from the left and from the right
    Feb 16, 2018

• • Lida Ahmadi - Asymptotic Results on the Average Subword Complexity
    Feb 15, 2018

• • Lina Aboulmouna - Empowering our youth: STEM outreach initiatives for computer science integration into K-12 classrooms
    Jan 25, 2018

• • Amos Golan - Data Confessions with Minimal Torture: The Info-Metrics Way
    Dec 14, 2017

• • Pablo Robles - Hierarchical Generative Models for Sparse Network Sampling
    Nov 16, 2017

• • Erin Carson - High performance Krylov subspace method variants and their behavior in finite precision
    Nov 15, 2017

• • Anil Damle - Robust and efficient multi-way spectral clustering
    Nov 8, 2017

• • Austin Benson - Higher-order clustering coefficients
    Oct 4, 2017

• • Manuel Gomez Rodriguez - On information reliability, source trustworthiness and fake news
    Sep 27, 2017

• • Pablo Robles - PhD Thesis Presentation
    Sep 22, 2017

• • Gulriz Kurban - Ligand-based Pharmacophore Mapping for Human CC-Chemokine Receptor 4 (CCR4) Allosteric Antagonists
    Sep 21, 2017

• • Joseph Tien - Disease spread on networks: integrating structure and dynamics through a generalized inverse
    Sep 20, 2017

• • Michael Saunders - Some snapshots of numerical linear algebra and optimization
    Sep 13, 2017

• • Abram Magner - Symmetry, Temporal Information, and Succinct Representation of Random Graph Structures
    Sep 6, 2017

• • Nicolas Garcia Trillos - Variational problems on geometric graphs and their continuum limits
    Aug 30, 2017

• • Joyce Whang - Scalable Data-driven PageRank and Non-exhaustive, Overlapping Co-clustering
    Aug 23, 2017

• • Michelle Effros - On Capacity and the Value of Communication
    Aug 21, 2017

• • Marek Zaionc - Asymptotic Densities in Logic and Computability
    Jun 14, 2017

• • Adam Wierman - Platforms & Networked Markets: Transparency & Market Power
    Apr 28, 2017

• • Prediction of Cannabis Use Disorder Severity from Genetic and Behavioral Data
    Mar 16, 2017

• • Christine Kuang - Topic-Sentiment Model with Document-Level Covariates
    Feb 16, 2017

• • Big Data and Predictive Analytics: Data Scientists are Key
    Feb 2, 2017

• • Nick Alcine & Maalik Hornbuckle - Designing and Securing a Weather Station to Increase Crop Production in Cameroon
    Jan 19, 2017 | Video

• • Michael Honig - Dynamics of Macro-economic Credit Expansions and Contractions
    Nov 17, 2016

• • Maryam Hosseini - Lossy Compression of Memoryless Sources
    Sep 15, 2016

• • Michael Luby - A Mathematical Theory of Distributed Storage
    Aug 1, 2016 | Video

• • CSoI Intro to Data Analysis Undergraduate Workshop
    May 24, 2016

• • Teemu Roos, University of Helsinki - Directed acyclic graphs as a model for biological and cultural evolution
    May 17, 2016

• • Austin Benson - Spacey Random Walk : a Stochastic Process for Higher-order Data
    May 11, 2016

• • Mira Radeva - Ant Colonies and Robust Algorithms
    Apr 19, 2016

• • McKeith Pearson and Felix Sanchez-Francisco - Quantitative Analysis of Yeast Cell Morphology Defects Induced by Gene De-Regulation
    Mar 31, 2016

• • Startup: the good, the bad and the awesome
    Mar 24, 2016

• • Bin Yu to speak at The Alan Turing Institute
    Mar 16, 2016

• • Mainak Chowdhury - The Intersection of Science of Information and Clinical Care for Cancer and Rare Diseases
    Feb 22, 2016 | Video

• • Maurina L. Aranda - Building Capacity to Use Science for Sovereignty in Native Coastal Communities
    Jan 29, 2016

• • Jia Tao and Leqi Liu - Shared Genetic Architecture In Autoimmune Disease - A Preliminary Analysis
    Nov 18, 2015

• • Arden L. Bement Jr. Distinguished Lecture
    Nov 9, 2015 | Video

• • Rebecca Barter - Assessing The Fit of a 'Big Data' Model: The Clustered Residual Plot
    Oct 26, 2015

• • Idoia Ochoa - An Overview of Genomic Data Compression
    Sep 15, 2015

• • Thesis Defense - Kayal Madhivanan
    May 28, 2015

• • Kayal Madhivanan and Swetha Ramadesikan - Quantitative Analysis of Biological Data
    Apr 14, 2015 | Video

• • Jonathan Ponniah - A Clean Slate Approach to Secure Wireless Protocol Design
    Mar 10, 2015

• • Minji Kim - HyDRA: Gene Prioritization via Hybrid Distance-Score Rank Aggregation
    Feb 12, 2015

• • Frank DeVilbiss - Extracting Complex Trends in Gene Expression from Metabolite Data - A Cybernetic Approach
    Feb 11, 2015 | Video

• • Mohan Gopaladesikan - On the Occurrences of Motifs in Recursive Trees with Applications to Random Structures
    Nov 14, 2014

• • Corey Schimpf - Women and Minorities in the Computing Fields: Precollege and College Years
    Nov 11, 2014 | Video

• • Sexual Harassment and Barriers to Advancement: What Has Changed Since the 1990s?
    Oct 16, 2014

• • Marianne Catanho - Modeling of Gene Expression: Dynamic and Stochastic Views
    Oct 14, 2014

• • Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation Research (PFI:AIR)
    Sep 30, 2014

• • Wojtek Szpankowski to deliver Helsinki Distinguished Lecture on Future Information Technology
    Sep 8, 2014

• • Wojciech Szpankowski Structural Information talk
    Apr 29, 2014

• • Stephen Mussman & John Moore - Assortativity in Generative Graph Models
    Apr 22, 2014

• • David Wolpert - Information Geometry of Influence Diagrams and Noncooperative Games
    Apr 7, 2014

• • Todd Coleman - Advancing Wearable Health with Smart Skin Sensors & Cloud Analytics
    Mar 24, 2014

• • CSoI and the Department of Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College are co-sponsoring "The Web at 25: Lessons Learned, Forgotten, and Rediscovered"
    Feb 28, 2014

• • Arpita Sen - Physiological Functions of Glutamine (Q)-Rich Regions present in Yeast Endocytic Adaptors
    Nov 11, 2013

• • Xiao (Grace) Yang - Large Alphabet Compression and Predictive Distributions through Poissonization and Tilting
    Oct 7, 2013

• • Midwest Science of Information Student Research Meeting
    Oct 7, 2013

• • Christine Task - Defining Differential Privacy for Social Network Analysis
    Sep 10, 2013

• • Madars Virza - Two Problems in Integrity Verification
    May 14, 2013

• • CS Theory/Math Seminar, Saugata Basu, Purdue University
    Apr 22, 2013

• • CS Theory/Math Seminar, Shiang-Jia Huang, Purdue University
    Apr 17, 2013

• • Farzaneh Farhangmehr - Information-theoretic Approaches for Biological Networks Reconstruction
    Apr 16, 2013

• • Shankar Subramaniam - Engineering: the sine qua non for Systems Biology and Medicine
    Apr 9, 2013

• • Nancy Lynch - Distributed Computing Theory for Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems
    Apr 8, 2013 | Video & Slides

• • Behrang Asadi - Network Reconstruction of Dynamic Biological Systems: Doubly Penalized LASSO
    Mar 12, 2013

• • Abram Magner - Asymptotic Asymmetry of Uniform Attachment Graphs
    Mar 5, 2013 | Video

• • Mohan Gopaladesikan - Building Random Trees from Blocks
    Feb 19, 2013

• • NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture: PR Kumar - The Challenges of Cyberphysical Systems
    Feb 6, 2013

• • Shang Shang - An Upper Bound on the Convergence Time for Quantized Consensus
    Jan 22, 2013

• • Tsachy Weissman - Fundamental Limits and Algorithms for Some Modern Data Processing Problems
    Dec 4, 2012

• • David Tse - Optimal Whole Genome Shotgun Assembly: From Simple Models to Complex Data
    Dec 4, 2012

• • Rui Ma - Neuroscience Tutorial for Information Theorists
    Dec 3, 2012

• • Grad Student/Post Doc Research Workshop
    Dec 3, 2012

• • CS Theory/Math Seminar, Madhur Tulsiani, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
    Nov 26, 2012

• • CS Theory/Math Seminar, Arnab Bhattacharyya, DIMACS
    Nov 19, 2012

• • Rotem Oshman - Data Aggregation in Wireless Networks
    Nov 13, 2012

• • CS Theory/Math Seminar, Karl Wimmer, Duquense University
    Nov 12, 2012

• • Emery Brown - A Look at the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia
    Nov 5, 2012

• • CS Theory/Math Seminar, Douglas Comer, Purdue University
    Oct 29, 2012

• • Tomasz Imielinski - Data Mining - Association Rules: Twenty Years and Beyond
    Oct 22, 2012 | Video

• • Srikanth Sastry - Asynchronous Failure Detectors
    Oct 9, 2012

• • Elena Grigoresce - List Decoding Barnes-Wall Lattices
    Oct 1, 2012

• • Ning Xie - Local Computation Algorithms
    Sep 24, 2012

• • Thomas Courtade: Lossy Compression for BigData: A First Step
    Sep 18, 2012 | Video

• • Thomas Courtade - Lossy Compression for BigData: A First Step
    Jul 26, 2012 | Video

• • Nima Soltani - Constrained directed information estimation for improved neural connectivity inference
    May 8, 2012

• • fMRI-enabled mind-reading event, with Jack Gallant & Nita Farahany
    Apr 26, 2012

• • 2012 Purdue CS Distinguished Alumnus Talk & Reception
    Apr 13, 2012

• • Leroy Hood - Systems Biology Approaches to Biology and Disease and the Emergence of Proactive P4 Medicine
    Apr 2, 2012

• • Joseph F. Traub - Algorithms and Complexity for Quantum Computing
    Apr 2, 2012

• • Jerzy Konorski - MAC-Layer Selfish Behavior and Bayesian Games in Wireless Local Networks
    Mar 28, 2012

• • Deven Desai - An Information Approach to Trademarks
    Mar 8, 2012

• • The Fine Art and Science of Polynomiography
    Feb 16, 2012

• • Shumiao Wang - Privacy Preserving Range Query over Encrypted Data
    Feb 14, 2012

• • Amos Golan - Info-Metrics: Theory and Examples
    Jan 30, 2012

• • Pulkit Grover - Communication and Control through an Information-scientific Lens
    Jan 24, 2012

• • Joachim M. Buhmann - Context Sensitive Information: Model Validation by Information Theory
    Jan 18, 2012 | Video

• • Martin Luther King Day Celebration
    Jan 15, 2012

• • Min Huang - Secret Sharing with Synthetic Steganography
    Nov 15, 2011

• • Yongwook Choi - Predicting the Functional Effects of Protein Sequence Variations
    Nov 14, 2011

• • Aurel A. Lazar - The Geometry of Time Encoding Machines
    Nov 7, 2011

• • Angik Sarkar - Information Processing with Spins and Magnets
    Nov 1, 2011

• • Luciano Floridi - The Philosophy of Information
    Oct 31, 2011

• • Gahyun Park - A Generalization of Multiple Choice Balls-into-Bins
    Oct 24, 2011

• • Timothy La Fond - Randomization Tests for Distinguishing Social Influence and Homophily Effects
    Oct 18, 2011

• • Shahin Mohammadi - Role of Synthetic Genetic Interactions in Understanding Functional Interactions Among Pathways
    Oct 4, 2011

• • Colloquium in Visual Culture: Expressive Data
    Sep 28, 2011

• • Yao Zhu - Learning the Building Blocks of Crystal Structures
    Sep 20, 2011

• • Dan Zhang - Document Clustering with Universum
    Sep 6, 2011

• • Arpita Sen - Information Theory and Cell Biology: A Necessary Synergism for Battling Cancer and Genetic Diseases
    Aug 23, 2011

• • Algorithms, Combinatorics, Information, and Beyond
    Aug 6, 2011

• • Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory 1
    May 27, 2011

• • Information and Cell Biology in Health and Disease
    May 26, 2011

• • Understanding How Information is Represented and Processed in Dynamic Interacting Networks of Neural Activity
    May 26, 2011

• • Temporal Guarantees in Wireless Networking
    May 25, 2011 | Video

• • Privacy Metrics: Meaningful Measurements of Information Disclosure May 24th, 2011
    May 24, 2011

• • The Most Popular Node
    May 24, 2011

• • Network Graphing Lab
    May 24, 2011

• • Shannon Legacy and Beyond
    May 24, 2011

• • Introduction to Modeling and Algorithms in Life Sciences
    May 24, 2011

• • Modeling Complex Social Networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Statistical Learning and Inference
    Apr 27, 2011

• • Ananth Grama - Algorithms for Sequence Analysis
    Apr 20, 2011 | Video

• • Algorithms for Sequence Analysis
    Apr 20, 2011 | Video

• • Text Analytics: Technological Challenges and Business Opportunities
    Apr 6, 2011

• • Quantum Information Theory
    Mar 30, 2011

• • Introduction to Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems
    Mar 23, 2011

• • Why Should We Avoid Rome?
    Mar 9, 2011

• • Optimal and almost optimal variable-to-fixed length codes: renewal theory and divide-and-conquer recurrences
    Feb 23, 2011

• • Modeling Human Cognition
    Feb 16, 2011

• • Processing Information Without Learning It
    Feb 9, 2011

• • Quantum Processes, Systems, and Information
    Feb 2, 2011

• • Privacy Metrics: Meaningful Measurements of Information Disclosure
    Jan 26, 2011

• • Tea at the STC - What is Information Theory
    Jan 19, 2011

• • Tea at the STC - Information Research Discussions Among Graduate Students
    Jan 12, 2011

• • Compression of Graphical Structures
    Nov 18, 2010 | Slides

• • A Machine Learning Approach for Information Retrieval Applications
    Nov 4, 2010

• • Challenges in the Biology Front or How the Theory of Information Can Save Lives
    Nov 1, 2010 | Video

• • An Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory
    Oct 28, 2010

• • Towards Understanding Mechanisms in Metabolic Phenomena Using Information Theory
    Oct 21, 2010

• • Revisiting Landuer's Principle
    Sep 30, 2010

• • Alon Orlitsky - Foreseeing the Unseen: Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets
    Apr 19, 2010 | Video

• • Brigitte Vallee - Information Theory: Models, Algorithms, Analysis
    Apr 12, 2010 | Video

• • Natasha Devroye - Fundamental Limits of Cognitive Networks
    Feb 22, 2010 | Video

• • PR Kumar - Temporal Guarantees over Wireless Networks
    Feb 2, 2009 | Video

• • Thomas Cover - The Natural Mathematics Arising in Information Theory and Investment
    Oct 20, 2008 | Video & Slides

• • Marcelo Weinberger - Information Theory in an Industrial Lab
    Nov 19, 2007 | Video

• • Madhu Sudan - Towards Universal Semantic Communication
    Apr 16, 2007 | Video & Slides

• • Andrew Barron - The Interplay of Information Theory, Probability and Statistics
    Feb 26, 2007 | Video & Slides

• • Nicholas Yannelis - Contracts Under Asymmetric Information
    Feb 12, 2007 | Video & Slides

• • Sergio Verdú - Information Theory Today
    Oct 2, 2006 | Video & Slides

• • Ben Schumacher - What is Information? Insights from Quantum Physics
    Sep 18, 2006 | Video