Editorial covering DDW 2017 (6–9 May 2017)

Editorial, Issue: September 2017

DDW 2017: Activities and Interests of the AGA Council

elcome to the May issue of CMGH. With Digestive WDisease Week® (DDW) just around the corner, we have compiled the following section highlights and meeting guides prepared by the AGACouncil Sections listed below.We hope that this feature helps support the basic and translational research communities within the AGA, as well as assisting our readers in taking advantage of the vast array of offerin...

OncoLog - May-June 2017

6 R of remarkable response rates and long-lasting remissions are beginning to emerge from clinical trials of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in patients with B cell malignancies. However, the promising therapy is out of reach for patients who lack sufficient T cells for CAR T cell generation or cannot afford to forgo treatment for the time it takes to generate CAR T cells. To sidestep t...

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Algorithms and Uncertainty Spring 2017 Lecture 9 — May 1 , 2017

As with offline optimization, there are numerous algorithms with convergence rates that depend on properties of the function to be optimized. We will now develop another online convex optimization algorithm that achieves better bounds in some cases, and unifies a number of disparate results in the field. Here are some key references: [Shalev-Shwartz 2007] [Abernethy, Hazan and Rakhlin, 2008] Th...