SCHOOL OF AMERICAN RESEARCH ADVANCED SEMINAR

School of Psychology Seminar

Wed 28/09/2016 1-2pm LC UG06 Prof. Russell Foster, University of Oxford THE BODY CLOCK AND SLEEP: Science to Medicine All life on earth has evolved under a rhythmically changing cycle of light and darkness, and organisms from single-celled bacteria up to man possess an internal representation of time. These 24 hour cycles, termed circadian rhythms, persist in the absence of external cues, and p...

School of Psychology Seminar Series

School of Psychology Seminar Series

Imi Research Seminar

The effectiveness of virtual environments has often been linked to the sense of presence reported by users of those virtual environments. Presence studies look investigate the phenomenon of acting and feeling that we are in the world created by computer displays. We propose to study relations between virtual humans and sense of presence in immersive environments. We particularly consider how su...

NYU Stern School of Business Department of Information, Operations & Management Sciences STATISTICS RESEARCH SEMINAR

Much of the nonparametric regression theory is focused on the case of additive Gaussian noise. In such a setting many smoothing techniques including wavelet thresholding methods have been developed and shown to be highly adaptive. In this talk we consider robust nonparametric regression, where the noise distribution is unknown and possibly heavy-tailed, and generalized nonparametric regression ...