Meeting of 1944 September 8

Farm & Home Science Vol. 5 No. 3, September 1944

Lecture 5 — September 8 , 2016

1 Overview In the last lecture we took a more in depth look at Chernoff Bounds and introduced subgaussian and subexponential variables. In this lecture we will continue talking about subgaussian variables and related random variables – subexponential and subgamma, and finally we will give a proof of famous Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma using property of subgaussian/subgamma variables. Definition ...

Borislav D. Bojanov: 18 November 1944-8 April 2009

Borislav Dechev Bojanov was born in Shemshevo, a little village just outside the beautiful central Bulgarian city of Veliko Tarnovo, of which he was so fond. Borislav took his first degree at Sofia University. He then went to Wroclaw, Poland, where he did a Master’s Thesis under the supervision of Professor Stefan Paszkowski. He returned to the Department of Mathematics of Sofia University in 1...

Harrison C. Spencer Jr. (September 22, 1944, to August 10, 2016)

Harrison C. Spencer, Jr., MD, MPH, DTM&H, CPH, died on Wednesday, August 10, 2016, in Washington, DC. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Christine M. Spencer, and two sons, Harrison (Trey) Spencer III, and Peter M. Spencer, daughter-in-law Katherine Spencer, and granddaughters Gigi and Maggie. He is also survived by two brothers and their wives, Fred and Jackie Spencer and Timothy and Ann ...

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