Chairpersons, Presenters and Participants

Judging academic pathology chairpersons.

In their article, “Chairpersons of Pathology in the United States: Benchmarks for Academic Publications and Professional Credentials,” Wick and Stoler1 focus on issues that are both provocative and controversial. Prompted by their concern for the falling rate of recruitment of US medical school graduates into pathology residency training programs, Wick and Stoler conducted an objective study to...

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Instructions for Poster Presenters

Monday Workshop Presenters : Title :

The nonsmooth composite minimization problem, whose objective function is the sum of an average of N smooth (possibly nonconvex) functions plus a proper closed convex function, is widely studied in large-scale machine learning, statistics and optimization. Unlike the numerous stochastic firstorder methods, the knowledge on stochastic second-order methods for this problem is very limited. In thi...

WEDNESDAY , JUNE 5 th , 2013 CHAIRPERSONS :