Every two weeks we meet to solve exercises.
When: Wednesdays 11:30am-1:00pm.
Coordinators: Geert Mesters, Piotr Zwiernik.
Supplementary reading:
S. Boucheron, G. Lugosi, P. Massart, Concentration Inequalities, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Wednesday, 16 June, zoom meeting: Piotr Zwiernik, Chapter 9: Decomposability and restricted strong convexity. Part II.
29 June - 2 July: Mathematical Statistics and Learning
Wednesday, January 15, 2020: Geert Mesters, Chapter 2: Basic tail and concentration bounds.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020: problem session
Wednesday, January 29, 2020: Gábor Lugosi, Chapter 4: Uniform laws of large numbers
Wednesday, February 5, 2020: problem session
Wednesday, February 12, 2020: Gábor Lugosi, Chapter 4 continued: Uniform laws of large numbers
Wednesday, February 19, 2020: problem session
Wednesday, February 26, 2020: Gábor Lugosi, Chapter 5: Metric entropy and its uses
Wednesday, March 4, 2020: problem session
Wednesday, March 11, 2020: Piotr Zwiernik, Chapter 6: Random matrices and covariance estimation
COVID BREAK
Wednesday, 7 April, zoom meeting: Gábor Lugosi: Concentration inequalities I
Wednesday, 14 April, zoom meeting: Gábor Lugosi: Concentration inequalities II
Wednesday, 21 April, online: Piotr Zwiernik, Chapter 6: Random matrices and covariance estimation
Wednesday, 28 April, room 20.017: problem session
Wednesday, 5 May, online: Vladislav Morozov, Chapter 7: Sparse linear models in high dimensions
Thursday, 13 May, online: Vladislav Morozov, Chapter 7: Sparse linear models in high dimensions (part 2)
Wednesday, 19 May, room 20.017: problem session
Wednesday, 26 May, zoom meeting: Geert Mesters, Chapter 8: Principal component analysis in high dimensions
Wednesday, 2 June: session cancelled
Wednesday, 9 June, zoom meeting: Piotr Zwiernik, Chapter 9: Decomposability and restricted strong convexity. Part I.