DIMACS Mixer Series - October 18, 2010

Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ

Monday, October 18, 2010

10:00 - 10:45  Breakfast and Coffee
               Fielding Room, Howe Center Building

10:45 - 11:00  Welcome, opening remarks and introductions
               Eugene Fiorini, DIMACS Associate Director

11:00 - 11:40  Keynote: An Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Dynamics with Multiple Agents*
               Michael Littman, Computer Science, Rutgers University
	
11:45 - 12:10  Clustering time-course data
               Alexander Schliep, Computer Science, BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University

12:15 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  1:55  Shrinkage estimators for out-of-sample prediction with multivariate normal data
               Lee Dicker, Statistics, Rutgers University 

 2:00 -  2:25  Mathematical and Computational Modeling and Analysis for Hermaphrodite Population Dynamics	
               Amira Kebir, DIMACS postdoc

 2:30 -  3:00  Coffee Break

 3:00 -  3:25  Stochastic foraging strategies of C. Elegans
               Liliana Salvador, DIMACS Visitor, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia          

 3:30 -  3:55  Compression and Complexity of Algorithmic Problems
               Alexei Miasnikov, Mathematics, Stevens Institute of Technology 

 4:00 -  4:25  An Analytic Proof of Hell-Nesetril
               Gabor Kun, DIMACS postdoc 

 4:25 -  4:30  Closing Remarks

* Joint work with Michael Wunder and Monica Babes