Eindhoven Stochastic Colloquium

MF 12 (4th floor MetaForum Building, TU/e

Botond Szabo (Leiden University) Bayesian nonparametric approach to log-concave density estimation   In the beginning of the talk I will give a (somewhat) lengthier introduction to Bayesian nonparametric methods. Then I will focus on estimating log-concave densities on R, which is a canonical problem in the area of shape-constrained nonparametric…

Eindhoven Stochastics Colloquium

MF 12 (4th floor MetaForum Building, TU/e

Stefan Klootwijk (University of Twente) On Random Shortest Path Metrics Simple heuristics often show a remarkable performance in practice for optimization problems. Worst-case analysis often falls short of explaining this performance. Because of this, "beyond worst-case analysis" of algorithms has recently gained a lot of attention, including probabilistic analysis of…