Student Seminar@Stat MSU, Fall 2011

Schedule

Interesting Things Happening Around

• Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research (The approach to cancer research presented here sounds really exciting.)

• Winning the Netflix Prize: A Summary (Professor Zhong mentioned this in the student seminar on 31 Oct.)

• useR! 2011–Wolfgang Huber: Genomes and phenotypes

• Adam Loverro: Fractional calculus: History, definitions and applications for the engineer (Maybe helpful for Professor Mark's talk)

• Benford’s law, Zipf’s law, and the Pareto distribution-a post by Terence Tao(The “correct” way to view the CLT, I guess, is via either the Fourier transform or the heat equation.)