Selecting the teams for the College Football Playoff for NCAA Division IA men’s football is a controversial process performed by the selection committee. We present a method for forecasting the four team playoff weeks before the selection committee makes this decision. Our method uses a modified logistic regression/Markov chain model …
Dueling bandits is a variant of the multi-armed bandit problem where instead of playing an arm and observing the reward at each instant, you duel two arms (pairwise comparison) and observe the winner among the two. Linear bandits is a special case of contextual bandits where the reward of an …
I will include the following points in my talk: – What is LiDar? – LiDar Types. – Special considerations for urban areas aerial scanning. – Applications of aerial scanning for urban areas.
I will give a high level talk about current research that studies how to prioritize cyber-security mitigations. I will talk about information technology supply chains, attack graphs, set cover variations, and budgeted maximization of submodular functions.
In a typical atmospheric contamination, “gas leaks” for instance, people are able to identify a deliberate pungent odor and the system responsible for the contamination contents have other various safe guards in place to protect environmental contamination. What happens when the contamination is deliberate and none of the safe guards …
Suppose G is a graph on N vertices, and H is a set of vertices on which someone has secretly “planted” a complete graph, or a graph whose edge-density is significantly greater than that of G. Can we efficiently and reliably find H, given G? This is called the “planted …
Understanding the way infections propagate through cells can allow us to know the severity of a disease and inform methods of treatment. The Human Rhinovirus (HRV) in particular is one virus which has been observed to spread in somewhat unusual ways which make it more difficult to characterize the rate …
A good code has both rate k/n and relative minimum distance d/n large. The fundamental question of coding theory is to describe the closure of the set of points (d/n,k/n). Goppa’s conjecture says that, except for isolated points, it’s the region below the curve y=1-H(x) for x
I will first explain to you the standard methodology for finding globally optimal solutions to nonconvex quadratic programs. I then will tell you a couple simple tricks, inspired by integer programming, that can speed up these algorithms by multiple orders of magnitude. If time allows, I can discuss a result …
Traffic stops are the most common contact that people will have with police. Most traffic stops are routine and end in either a warning or some form of citation for a traffic violation. However, a significant percentage of criminal charges arise out of what begins as a routine traffic stop. …