Group Meeting Page

We will list the papers to be read and who will be reading them here. If you have any questions about the page, please e-mail me.

**Meetings will be held at 212 Cory, at 5pm every Monday.**

Spring 2009

• February 23rd, 2009. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: Network-based consensus averaging with general noisy channels
  Authors: Rajagopal, Wainwright Presenter: Nima


• February 9th, 2009. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: Information Theoretic Bounds for Distributed Computation
  Authors: Ayaso, Shah, Dahleh Presenter: Nima


• February 2nd, 2009. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: A statistical framework for differential privacy
  Authors: Wasserman, Zhou
  Presenter: Amin



Spring 2008

• March 17th, 2008. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: Guaranteed Minimum-Rank Solutions of Linear Matrix Equations via Nuclear Norm Minimization
  Authors: Recht, Fazel, Parillo
  Presenter: Arash


• March 31st, 2008. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: A duality view of spectral methods for dimensionality reduction
  Authors: Xiao, Sun, Boyd
  Presenter: Sahand


• April 7th, 2008. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: A Tutorial on Spectral Clustering
  Authors: Ulrike von Luxburg
  Presenter: Alekh


• April 14th, 2008. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: Nonlinear Component Analysis as a Kernel Eigenvalue Problem
  Paper: On the Convergence of Eigenspaces in Kernel Principle Component Analysis
  Authors: Scholkopf, Smola, Muller
  Presenter: Prasad


• April 28th, 2008. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: Efficient Compressive Sensing with Determinstic Guarantees Using Expander Graphs
  Authors: Weiyu Xu and Babak Hassibi
  Presenter: Alex


• May 5th, 2008. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: Information-Theoretic Determination of Minimax Rates of Convergence
  (pay special attention to pages 1568-1572)
  Authors: Yang and Barron
  Presenter: Martin


• May 19th, 2008. 212 Cory Hall.
  Paper: A Simple Lemma on Greedy Approximation in Hilbert Space and Convergence Rates for Projection Pursuit Regression and Neural Network Training
  Authors: Jones
  Presenter: Prasad