4:00pm-5:00pm Eig 921 Meet [with] Ed, Raquel, Gregory, Pam, and Beth for Scholarships (undergraduate)
6:00pm Meet [with] Bill, Pete for Dinner
Wednesday
10:30am Eig 1013 [with] Sun, Pedja, Haixu about program.
Grading book reports remainder of day
Administer Final Exam I101 Version B - 12:51 PM
Geology 11:00pm-12:30pm meet [with] Claudia and Erika on Geoinformatics project and NSF grants due in January
Eigenmann 02:00pm-03:00pm Meet [with] Steve on sportsinformatics capstone--add him to our SQL database group
Myers 103 04:00pm-05:00pm attend Jim Drummond's talk on building proteins
06:00pm-07:00pm submit partial solutions [to] Nina - 1:52 PM
Lunch with Chandan (Last Guest for Colloquium Series this academic Year)
Help Jeff [with] Microsoft Imagine Cup
Friday meet with Chandan Reddy Colloquium speaker from Cornell Computer Engineering on
Time: 3pm
Place: LH102
Abstract: In this talk, he presented the concepts of stability regions and explain how they can be used for different problems that arise in statistical machine learning and pattern discovery. Specifically, he introduced the newly proposed Stability Region based Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and discuss its advantages and applications. In the context of model-based clustering, the widely used EM algorithm often gets stuck at a local maximum of the log-likelihood surface. To overcome this problem, a novel two phase algorithm that can systematically compute neighborhood local maxima on the log-likelihood surface is proposed. Their algorithm uses the newly developed TRUST-TECH (TRansformation Under STability reTained Equilibria CHaracterization) framework that can explore the dynamic and geometric characteristics of the stability regions of the nonlinear dynamical system corresponding to its nonlinear function. As a case study of the proposed framework, he discussed the application of our algorithm to the motif finding problem in bioinformatics (in a very general sense--my words). Their algorithm has been tested on both synthetic and real datasets and significant improvements in the performance compared to other approaches are demonstrated. This generic framework also provides the flexibility of using different local solvers and global methods that work well for some specific datasets. He also discussed some of his other works on scale-space theory in relation with boosting and mixture modeling.
Review on Sunday for I101. Here are some review notes students might find useful. They are not exhaustive, but should provide points of emphasis, especially in my sections. - 2:14 PM
Wednesday
8:00am Speak @ Cathy's class
12:00pm Survey @ Ironpit Gym for Chris' capstone.
2:30pm-3:45pm Evaluate Matt
4:00pm-6:00pm Meet Aaron for sportsinformatics capstone - 11:37 PM
Meet [with] Andy
1:00pm-2:00pm Meet [with] Thom, Bill, Justen, (lots of folks) about gene-expression data. Set a tentative date to meet in the flesh in Chicago in February.
2:00pm-3:30pm Meet [with] Justen discuss papers
Prepare for penultimate I101 and discuss [with] Dennis teaching schedule for next year.
Try to complete PODs paper--but it's looking grim. - 7:59 PM
Tuesday I101 Networking/Homework/Schedule for book report. The book is Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell. The report is four pages, 12pt font, double spaced. There must be a cover page and numbering. Hard copies only (save the trees). The report should contain
- Synopsis of Blink
- How the book relates to Informatics
- Critique of the book, e.g. writing style.
- Would you recommend the book to a friend?
Wednesday Class cancelled because I was ill
Complete NSF letter for Mike
Thursday I101 Networking
Friday 10:00am-11:00am Indigene, paper accepted, faculty (full) 12:00pm-2:00pm, colloquium at 3:00pm-4:00pm.
For L519, you are to find a an interesting disease gene, find several orthologues, align these proteins, use ABDG to find motifs. A page on this will suffice. Due Friday of finals week.
For I101, I have posted a homework that you can do to replace your lowest homework score or simply as a preparation for the final. - 7:54 PM
I101 Networking and Linear Models
Wednesday-Sunday Thanksgiving Break
Celebrated by hitting my neighbor's boyfriend's Audi and at a friend's home.
- 7:47 PM