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Research Achievement Awards
Congratulations to Daniel Panario and Vida Dujmovic, recipients of the 2012-13 Research Achievement Awards, presented on Tuesday, May 7th, at the Achievement Awards Celebration held at Baker’s.... more
PROBABILITY – STATISTICS DAY
Date: May 3, 2013, Location: 4351 HP (Macphail Room), Carleton University, 10:00 – Coffee; 10:30 - Manfred Denker (Penn State University) “Logarithmic Quantile Estimation”; 11:30 – Rafal Kulik (University of Ottawa) “Heavy tails and long memory: modeling and estimation”; 12:30-1:30 – Lunch 1:30 – Miklos Csorgo (Carleton University) “Bootstrapped pivots for the sample and population means ... more
Honours Project Talks
Monday, April 29th, Macphail Room (4351HP), 11.00am: Travis Hof-Macneil “Lattice based cryptography and NTRUSign signature scheme”, Supervisor: S. Alaca, Second reader: S. Wang, 2.00pm: Janani Narayanan “An introduction to Clifford algebra”, Supervisor: P Mezo, Second reader: B Stevens, 2.45pm: Michelle Kovesi “Determining When Irreducible Complex Representations of Finite Groups are Essentially Real”, Supervisor: P Mezo, ... more
Honours Project talk
Title: “On the APRCL primality”, Student: Daniel Spracklin, Supervisor: Dr. S. Alaca, 2nd Reader: Dr. S. Wang, Location: 4325HP (Algebra-Number Theory Room), Time : 1:00pm.... more
Joint Colloquium, Carleton University – University of Ottawa
SPEAKER: Don Dawson, Carleton University, TITLE: Some probabilistic objects motivated by evolutionary biology, DATE/TIME/PLACE: Friday, April 12, 2:30 – 3:30, HP 4351 (Macphail Room), Carleton University, TITLE: Some probabilistic objects motivated by evolutionary biology, ABSTRACT/CV The Colloquium talk will be followed by a reception (starting at 3:30). Everyone is welcome.... more
Probability and Statistics Seminar
TITLE: Bootstrapping t, u and v-statistics SPEAKER: Masoud Nasari DATE: Friday, April 5, 2013 TIME: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm ROOM: HP 4351 (Macphail Room) ABSTRACT: Application of the bootstrap to statistics of the form of sums of random variables yields randomly weighted versions of these statistics. Traditionally, the validity of bootstrap is investigated via ... more
Honours for Distinguished Research Professor Jon Rao
Dr. Jon Rao received an honorary doctorate degree (Laurea Honoris Causa) from the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Piacenza, Italy, in a special ceremony held on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, expressly for this occasion. This marks Jon’s second honorary doctorate degree, the first coming from the University of Waterloo in 2008. Congratulations Jon!... more
Combinatorics and Optimization Seminar
SPEAKER: David Wood (Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)); TITLE: Visibility Graphs: Many Conjectures and a Few Theorems; DATE: Friday, March 22, 2013, 1:00 pm, HP 4531; ABSTRACT: The visibility graph of a finite point set P has vertex set P, where two vertices v, w in P are adjacent if the line segment vw contains no other points ... more