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AMCS Student Research Day

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 12:00pm to 6:00pm

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AMCS students will present their research in talks and a poster session. 

12:00 Pizza 
12:30 - 1:40: Welcome to Student Research Day and Student Presentations
1:40 - 2:00: Coffee Break
2:00 - 3:10: Student presentations
3:10 - 3:30: Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30: Keynote talk by Elchanan Mossel
4:30 Reception and posters

Student Lectures
Yinglong Guo Models for Viscoelastic Fluids that Capture Effects of Microstructural Evolution
Howard Levinson Solution of the Nonlinear Inverse Scattering Problem by T-matrix Completion
Iris Yoon Sperner's Lemma via Sheaf Cohomology
Yichao Lu Fast Algorithms for Large Scale Canonical Correlation Analysis
Anru Zhang Recovery of High-dimensional Low-rank Matrices
Kwon Lee Inference in Distributional Treatment Effects in Instrumental Variable Models
Yuanpei Cao Sparse Covariance Matrix Estimation for Compositional Data via Composition-adjusted Thresh-holding
Shi Gu Energy Landscapes of the Brain Networks
Zhuo Wang Encoding Natural Stimulus with Optimal Neural Population
Ke Zeng Identifying Brain Imaging Abnormalities Using Sparse Modelling
Muzhi Yang Learning Induced Autonomy of Sensory Motor Systems
Jing Xu School Choice Problem
Keynote Address
Elchanan Mossel It's Complicated: Statistics and Probability Relationship Status and Anecdotes
Posters
Valentin Kunin Mechanical and Acoustic Properties of Fractal-cut Materials