Sally Corbett, director of BiCities!, discusses their experience volunteering on the program as well as their work with the Bisexual Organizing Project (BOP).
Contributor:
Corbett, Sally (Guest)
Created:
2019-04-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2019 production of Sister Act. Run dates: April 18-28, 2019. Venue: Marshall Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theatre. Director: William Payne. Cast list--Deloris Van Cartier: Tolu Ekisola; Tina: Daysha Ramsey; Michelle: Mia Martinez; Mother Superior: Cally Stanich; Sister Mary Robert: Mi...
Creator:
Groehler, Brett
Created:
2019-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
I was late. I only decided to find a job in industry in the 4th year of my graduate study even though I never had a job outside of academia. The one question that I kept asking was: how do you get a job? It was scary because I did't know what to do. But I ended up getting a job. And today, I think I'm doing fine. If you are about to start on...
Creator:
Lee, Chang (Lowe's)
Created:
2019-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This is the story about the narrator's parents, who found love after coming from different backgrounds. The mother was a Moroccan Jew who had fled to Israel , and the father was a Polish Jew who had fled to the United States and met his wife on a trip to Israel. They moved to the United States and started a family, raising their children with el...
Creator:
Fine, Adam
Created:
2019-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Recommendation systems are used everywhere nowadays. This talk will discuss how differently recommendation systems are researched and applied in academia and industry, and challenges one might face or criteria one might care about when building recommendation systems. In real life, the job of a recommendation algorithm is not to be very predicti...
Created:
2019-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This is the story of an unintentional immigration. James Fleming was an Irish sailor on a boat taking immigrants to New Orleans. In 1863, Confederate troops seized his ship, stranding him in the United States without money and leaving his relatives thinking he had died. He was able to move to Arkansas and make a living in his new, unintentional ...
Creator:
Reinhold, Clara
Created:
2019-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Jose-Angel Lombera left Mexico at a young age to escape his impoverished conditions and seek new opportunities. The border crossing was harrowing and traumatic, and once in the States, he had to overcome a learning disability to learn English and adjust to the culture. He eventually became the head of a construction business and started a family.
Creator:
Lombera, Alejandra
Created:
2019-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is a survey of the Thomases family, tracing the family tree back to the early 1900s when Zachary's ancestors came to the United States from Poland to escape anti-Semitic persecution.
Creator:
Thomases, Zachary
Created:
2019-03-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
David Lenzi moved to the United States from Canada as young man for better educational opportunities in the scientific communities. He embraces the US's diversity and believes that distinctions shouldn't be made between immigrants and "natives" (except for Native Americans).
Creator:
Lenzi, Marco
Created:
2019-03-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Lien Chung grew up affluent in Vietnam, but was forced to leave by the rise of the Vietcong and the ensuing war. Her escape was a harrowing and traumatic journey involving starvation and pirate attacks. She was eventually relocated to the United States and adjusted to the new culture with difficulty.
Creator:
Chung, Kalvin
Created:
2019-03-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Care coordinator Ejay Jack and plastic surgeon Dr. Nicholas Kim discuss the myriad of health services they provide to non-cisgender patients at the University of Minnesota Health Comprehensive Gender Care initiative.
Contributor:
Jack, Ejay (Guest); Kim, Dr. Nicholas (Guest)
Created:
2019-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2019 production of Time's Up. Run dates: March 7-24, 2019. Venue: Marshall Performing Arts Center Dudley Experimental Theatre. Director: Jenna Soleo-Shanks. Cast list--Paphnutius: Patrick Timmons; Thais: Sarah Dickson; Ensemble: Camryn Buelow, Bret Burggraff, Christopher Hoffman, Jenessa ...
Creator:
Groehler, Brett
Created:
2019-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Fartun Mohamed grew up in Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War, during which her mother was killed. She was able to move to the United States when she married her husband, a US citizen. Once in the States, she worked to provide money for herself and her family still in Somalia, raise her children, and study to get a high school diploma, allowin...
Creator:
Mohamed, Fartun
Created:
2019-02-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2019 production of Love's Labor's Lost. Run dates: February 7-16, 2019. Venue: Marshall Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theatre. The photographer is uncertain but is likely either Brett Groehler or Drew Smith. Director: Kate Ufema. Cast list--Longaville (King's Courtier Friends): Jake Ne...
Creator:
Groehler, Brett; Smith, Drew
Created:
2019-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ahsan is a refugee from Afghanistan. He was separated from his family as they fled the Taliban and was the only one able to escape to Europe. He must now deal with a new culture while worrying about his family back home.
Creator:
Demmelmaier, Franziska
Created:
2019-01-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Every day Metro Transit implements transit service across the region, with the main purpose of providing about 250,000 trips to destinations. As a secondary consequence of the service, thanks to records of smart card tags and mobile phone apps, some detailed information about how people use the system is known. A holy grail for transportation pl...
Creator:
Lind, Eric (Metro Transit)
Created:
2019-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Every day Metro Transit implements transit service across the region, with the main purpose of providing about 250,000 trips to destinations. As a secondary consequence of the service, thanks to records of smart card tags and mobile phone apps, some detailed information about how people use the system is known. A holy grail for transportation pl...
Creator:
Lind, Eric (Metro Transit)
Created:
2019-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This is the story of Lorena Perez Huerta and Jesse Jesus Perez, who married in Mexico and crossed the border to live with Jesse's family in California at great risk. They worked to provide opportunities for their children and Lorena defeated cancer while pregnant with one of her sons.
Creator:
Perez, Roberto
Created:
2019-01-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ali Sands, author of "I Know Who You Are, But What Am I? A Partner's Perspective on Transgender Love", and her partner Rhys Preston talk about life and love during transitioning.
Contributor:
Preston, Rhys (Guest); Sands, Ali (Guest)
Created:
2019-01-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dr. Cesar Gonzales (Clinical Director) and Dr. Oscar Manrique (Surgical Co-Director) discuss their work at the Mayo Clinic's Transgender and Intersex Speciality Care Clinic.
Contributor:
Gonzales, Dr. Cesar (Guest); Manique, Dr. Oscar (Guest)
Created:
2019-01-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Candice Dea was brought the the United States by her parents from rural China when she was fifteen to give her political and economic opportunities she wouldn't have had in China. Following her love of children and helping people, Candice began a career as a preschool teacher and started a family of her own with her husband.
Creator:
Lee, Karyn
Created:
2018-12-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Lawrence is a student from China who came to the United States for education and moved to the Philippines to become a doctor. He compared the Philippines to the United States in terms of Costco and the American values the store represents.
Creator:
Yelda, Erin
Created:
2018-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Amir Hisham came to the United States from Malaysia to further his education. He dealt with language barriers and cultural differences, which he overcame with the help of friends and hard work.
Creator:
Takeshita, Dennis
Created:
2018-12-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This story is about Maria Andres, a DACA recipient whose mother brought her to the United States from Mexico when she was young. Life was difficult for Maria and her mother as they adjusted to the culture and strove to make a living. Today, Maria is worried about her precarious political position and works to maintain her Mexican culture.
Creator:
Catacoly, Jamila
Created:
2018-12-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ricardo Perez grew up in Tijuana, Mexico, pursuing and eventually achieving his dream of running a horse track to train horses and to marry and start a family. However, his horse track burned to the ground one day, forcing him and his wife to move in with his wife's family in California, where Ricardo started over his horse training career from ...
Creator:
Durgen, Madeline
Created:
2018-12-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Afsaneh Nozari and her family fled Iran after the Shah was overthrown. After enduring several hardships, she made it to the United States and began a new life there.
Creator:
Crawford, Catherine
Created:
2018-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Cassandra Yoo is the child of her Korean father and white, American mother and because of this, she has struggled to define her identity, never seeming to fit in with any one group. Her perception of her own race and ethnicity has changed throughout her academic career, influenced by her schoolmates, friends, family, and classes.
Creator:
Yoo, Cassandra
Created:
2018-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ngai Kay Rachel Wong describes her immigrant experience moving to Georgia from Hong Kong using the metaphor of Cantonese cuisine and the traditions which come with it.
Creator:
Wong, Ngai Kay Rachel
Created:
2018-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Nicole Williams traces her family history back generations to an ancestor who travelled from Germany with his family. The family settled down in Pennsylvania and rarely left.
Creator:
Williams, Nicole
Created:
2018-12-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
We consider a product rental network with a fixed number of rental units distributed across multiple locations. The units are accessed by customers without prior reservation and on an on-demand basis. Customers are provided with the flexibility to decide on how long to keep a unit and where to return it. Because of the randomness in demand and i...
Creator:
Li, Xiaobo (National University of Singapore)
Created:
2018-12-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This talk considers the optimal adaptive allocation of measurement effort for identifying the best among a finite set of options or designs. An experimenter sequentially chooses designs to measure and observes noisy signals of their quality with the goal of confidently identifying the best design after a small number of measurements. Just as the...
Creator:
Russo, Dan (Columbia University)
Created:
2018-12-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Modern online marketplaces feed themselves. They rely on historical data to optimize content and user-interactions, but further, the data generated from these interactions is fed back into the system and used to optimize future interactions. As this cycle continues, good performance requires algorithms capable of learning actively through sequen...
Creator:
Agrawal, Shipra (Columbia University)
Created:
2018-12-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Machine learning is increasingly used to inform consequential decisions. Yet, these predictive models have been found to exhibit unexpected defects when trained on real-world observational data, which are plagued with confounders and biases. Thus, it is critical to involve domain experts in an interactive process of developing predictive models;...
Creator:
Bastani, Hamsa (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)
Created:
2018-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We propose a minimax concave penalized multi-armed bandit algorithm under generalized linear model (G-MCP-Bandit) for a decision-maker facing high-dimensional data in an online learning and decision-making process. We demonstrate that the G-MCP-Bandit algorithm asymptotically achieves the optimal cumulative regret in the sample size dimension T,...
Creator:
Wei, Mike (University at Buffalo (SUNY))
Created:
2018-12-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
JD.com sets the standard for online shopping through its commitment to quality, authenticity, and its high standard delivery services. JD's nationwide fulfillment network provides standard same- and next-day delivery covering a population of more than 1 billion. This talk will discuss the latest development of the the key methodologies and algor...
Creator:
Yuan, Rong (JD.COM)
Created:
2018-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Eileen Zrubeck uses the rich documentation of her family history, especially the letters of John W. Watson, to better understand her own heritage and how that helped determine her place in American society today.
Creator:
Zrubek, Eileen
Created:
2018-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Leah Yoeman (Board Chair) and Shawna McNamara (Director) of the Bisexual Organizing Project discuss BOP, Bi Essentials, and the upcoming Bi-Lesque Minneapolis show: "Unicorns Unite!"
Contributor:
Yoemans, Leah (Guest); McNamara, Shawna (Guest)
Created:
2018-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Target is a unique retailer with a large and complex supply chain network supporting a diverse set of SKUs that it offers in store across the US and online. Making this network efficient entails solving multiple interconnected optimization problems using techniques in stochastic modeling and optimization, algorithm development and scaling, and a...
Creator:
Khodjasteh, Kaveh (Target Corporation)
Created:
2018-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This story is about Anja Cain, who grew up in West Berlin. Her parents were resistance fighters against the Berlin Wall, leading to their hardship and her mother's capture. Anja then met her husband through mutual friends and they moved to the United States with their children, even though this was sometimes a difficult adjustment for Anja.
Creator:
Cain, Juliette
Created:
2018-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is the story of Ashley Montalvo's father and grandmother, who came to the mainland United States from Puerto Rico and, despite being citizens, faced discrimination and cultural barriers. Today, Ashley is aware of her heritage and partakes in a hybrid blend of cultures.
Creator:
Montalvo, Ashley
Created:
2018-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Azil Jahanbakhsh was born and grew up in Iran, but, after the tragic death of his older brother, moved with his family to Germany to have a fresh start. In Germany, he was discovered as a soccer star and moved to New York to play soccer, where he would settle down and start a family.
Creator:
Tiller, Jackson
Created:
2018-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is a family history, starting from a tragic family visit to Canada from Austria, and ending a few generations later in Atlanta, Georgia. Because of the different wars the family lived through, they were perceived differently in every community in which they lived.
Creator:
Prioleau, Isabel
Created:
2018-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is about Nicholas Kalanick, who fled Ukraine to escape the rise of Stalin and the atrocities he inflicted upon Ukraine. He brought his family to Pennsylvania and worked in a coal mine and in a manufacturing plant for the war effort.
Creator:
Kalanick, Jackson
Created:
2018-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Adam Chisholm was born around 1695 in Scotland. Due to being a rebel soldier in the Jacobite Rebellion, he was exiled to the American Colonies where he worked as an indentured servant for seven years before starting a family.
Creator:
Davidson, Isabelle
Created:
2018-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Cierra Skyers came to the United States from Canada in 2012 to pursue college soccer opportunities. She has formed many relationships in the US and is planning to stay and become an educator. She feels that it is important to clarify misconceptions about Canadians and to give a foreigner's perspective on American culture.
Creator:
Fultz, Alli
Created:
2018-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Evelyn Salguero came to the United States at the age of 16 and began working, settling in, and eventually starting a family. This story is about a return journey she made to Guatemala with her children, who had never seen the country before, and the meanings held by different aspects of Guatemalan culture.
Creator:
Parham, Louis
Created:
2018-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is the story of an Italian immigrant in the early 1900s starting a family and pursuing the American Dream. It involves hard work, family, Catholicism, and organized crime.
Creator:
Swider, Kara
Created:
2018-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Oliver O'Mahoney, an immigrant from Ireland, met his wife, Julia, while stationed in the Philippines during his time in the US military. He was then stationed in Newark, which is where Julia moved to to study nursing. They got married, became citizens, and raised a family together.
Creator:
Henderson, Genevieve
Created:
2018-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Madeleine Odutayo was born to two Nigerian immigrants in the United States. When she was young, her father was deported, forcing her mother to raise three children by herself while attending nursing school. Her father was only able to come back eleven years later.
Creator:
Odutayo, Madeleine
Created:
2018-11-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
A Langlands correspondence for a reductive group G over a local field F is a partial or complete classification of representations of the group G(F) in terms of Galois parameters for F with values in the Langlands dual group of G. The model for this correspondence is the parametrization of irreducible representations of GL(n,F) by n-dimensional ...
Creator:
Harris, Michael (Columbia University)
Created:
2018-11-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The theory of endoscopy has been created by Langlands based on insights gained from the study of points on Shimura varieties. It had a broad impact on local and automorphic representation theory. Being a phenomenon of arithmetic nature, endoscopy theory manifests itself in the study of the geometry of the Hitchin fibration which a priori has ent...
Creator:
Bao, Ngo (University of Chicago)
Created:
2018-11-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The local Langlands correspondence is a conjectural relationship between the representations of a (real or p-adic reductive) Lie groups and the representations of a local Galois group. Over the real numbers it was constructed by Langlands and refined by Shelstad. Over the p-adic numbers much progress has been made over the last two decades, but ...
Creator:
Kaletha, Tasho (University of Michigan)
Created:
2018-11-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Let omega be a rational n-form on C^n whose singular locus is a finite affine real hyperplane arrangement, and let b denote a base point in R^n outside the singular locus. Given a Paley-Wiener function f on C^n we define I_b(f) as the integral of f times omega over b+iR^n. By Cauchy’s theorem this linear functional I_b on the space PW(C^n) of ...
Creator:
Opdam, Eric (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Created:
2018-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Electromagnetic duality (also known as S-duality), discovered by physicists in the 1980s, is a conjectural equivalence between 4d supersymmetric quantum gauge theories associated to two compact Lie groups that are Langlands dual to each other. Starting with the pioneering work by Kapustin and Witten, a great effort has been made in the past doze...
Creator:
Frenkel, Edward (University of California, Berkeley)
Created:
2018-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
I will describe some of the history of, progress in, and future prospects for the p-adic Langlands program. This is an aspect of the Langlands program that grew out of the successful proof of Langlands reciprocity in various important cases (in particular, the modularity of elliptic curves over Q) twenty or so years ago. It relates the deformati...
Creator:
Emerton, Matthew (University of Chicago)
Created:
2018-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This is a historical account and survey of Langlands theory of Eisenstein series and how it led to his definition of Frobenius-Hecke conjugacy classes, L-functions and L-groups through his computations of their constant terms, a subject that Langlands considers as the key to the suggestions in the letter to Andre Weil. We will also discuss the n...
Creator:
Shahidi, Freydoon (Purdue University)
Created:
2018-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
An overarching goal of the Langlands program is the principle of functoriality, first formulated in the famous 1967 letter from Langlands to Weil. It roughly states that if the L-groups of two (reductive) groups are related then so are their automorphic spectrum. It has many important consequences including the Ramanujan conjecture for GL(n) as ...
Creator:
Altug, Salim (Boston University)
Created:
2018-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The geometric Langlands correspondence for complex algebraic curves, the way it is currently understood, differs from the original Langlands correspondence for number fields in that it is formulated in terms of sheaves rather than functions (in the intermediate case of curves over finite fields, both formulations are possible). In a recent prepr...
Creator:
Frenkel, Edward (University of California, Berkeley)
Created:
2018-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The stable trace formula was conjectured by Langlands around 1970. He proposed that it be the central ingredient in what later became known as the Theory of Endoscopy, a classification of the internal structure of automorphic representations.The stable trace formula has now been established for general groups. We shall say something about it var...
Creator:
Arthur, James (University of Toronto)
Created:
2018-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We have recently developed a computational genomics method (PANOPLY- Precision cancer genomics report: single sample inventory) that uses an individual’s clinical, germline and tumor multi-omics data to identify potential drug targets and chemotherapy drugs; this enables the personalization of medicine for cancer. The PANOPLY is an open-source...
Creator:
Kalari, Krishna (Mayo Clinic)
Created:
2018-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
A dynamic treatment regime is a sequence of decision rules, each corresponding to a decision point, that determine that next treatment based on each individual’s own available characteristics and treatment history up to that point. We show that identifying the optimal dynamic treatment regime can be recast as a sequential optimization problem ...
Creator:
Zhang, Min (University of Michigan)
Created:
2018-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
In the recent literature on estimating heterogeneous treatment effects, each proposed method makes its own set of restrictive assumptions about the intervention’s effects and which subpopulations to explicitly estimate. Moreover, the majority of the literature provides no mechanism to identify which subpopulations are the most affected–beyon...
Creator:
McFowland, Edward (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2018-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
To achieve personalized medicine, an individualized treatment strategy assigning treatment based on an individual's characteristics that leads to the largest benefit can be considered. Recently, a machine learning approach, O-learning, has been proposed to estimate an optimal individualized treatment rule (ITR), but it is developed to make binar...
Creator:
Zeng, Donglin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Created:
2018-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Assessing disease risk with repeated biomarker measurements has important applications in the screening and early detection for many diseases. In obstetrics, interest is on assessing the risk of a poor pregnancy outcome (i.e., small for gestational age or preterm birth) from longitudinal imaging and biomarker data. We will begin by presenting si...
Creator:
Albert, Paul (National Cancer Institute)
Created:
2018-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
A key issue in precision medicine is to uncover and utilize interactions between treatments and one's genetic and environmental risk factors. Due to the polygenic nature, testing for the interaction between a treatment and one's genetic features like a set of SNPs involves testing on a high-dimensional parameter. For such a purpose, it is critic...
Creator:
Pan, Wei (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
To, effectively, combat the opioid epidemic and associated infectious diseases we must elucidate factors associated with therapeutic initiation, adherence and completion of therapy. However, the patient population compounds the problem of elucidation of these factors. Substance users are characterized by lack of medical care, generally limited f...
Creator:
Markatou, Marianthi (University at Buffalo (SUNY))
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Mediation analysis has been commonly used to study the effect of an exposure on an outcome through a mediator. In practice, we may face the problem to estimate and test a specific mediator of interest, termed “targeted" mediator, in the presence of high dimensional mediators. In this talk we present a de-biased Lasso estimate for the targeted ...
Creator:
Liu, Lei (Washington University School of Medicine)
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Identification of subgroups in a biomedical study with subjects sampled from a heterogeneous population has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Technically, subgroup group analysis may be formulated as a type of supervised clustering analysis with group labels being latent. The method of finite mixture model is the most widely used...
Creator:
Song, Peter (University of Michigan)
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Biomedical knowledge graphs represent relations among biomedical entities and have been intensively analyzed for drug repositioning, disease gene discovery and other important medical applications. While most existing studies focus on analyzing and predicting pairwise relations, we consider learning multi-relations among the entities across many...
Creator:
Kuang, Rui (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Over the past decade, there has been a remarkable improvement in our understanding of the role of genetic variation in complex human diseases. Discovery the genetic variants that have significant associations with various diseases, phenotypes and treatment responses is the key step towards the development of precision therapeutic interventions. ...
Creator:
Wei, Ying (Columbia University)
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Hypothesis testing to compare dynamic treatment regimes (DTR) from a sequential multiple assignment randomization trial (SMART) is generally based on inverse probability weighting or g-estimation. However, regression methods allowing for comparison of DTRs that flexibly adjust for baseline covariates using these methods are not as straight-forwa...
Creator:
Wahed, Abdus (University of Pittsburgh)
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Covariate-adjusted randomization procedure is frequently used in comparative studies (such as clinical trials for precision medicine) to increase the covariate balance across treatment groups. However, as the randomization inevitably uses the covariate information when forming balanced treatment groups, the validity of classical statistical meth...
Creator:
Hu, Feifang (George Washington University)
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Subash Gupta moved to England from Ludhiana, India. There he met his wife and both then moved to Canada to work in a factory. They slowly earned enough money to provide a good life for their three children.
Creator:
Agarwal, Jayden
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This talk will describe a new approach for optimizing dynamic treatment regimes that bridges the gap between Bayesian inference and Q-learning. The proposed approach fits a series of Bayesian regression models, one for each stage, in reverse sequential order. Each model regresses the remaining payoff assuming optimal actions are taken at subsequ...
Creator:
Murray, Thomas (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2018-11-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Implantable cardiac devices collect physiologic parameters and heart rhythm metrics continuously on heart failure patients. Remote monitoring services can combine this information with daily blood pressure, weights and symptoms into a risk prediction algorithm and tailor patient treatment. To determine the clinical benefits of using such a risk ...
Creator:
Bergemann, Tracy (Medtronic)
Created:
2018-11-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Subgroup analysis is frequently used to account for the treatment effect heterogeneity in clinical trials. When a treatment is seen marginally effective for the population of the original study, it is tempting to consider post hoc subgroup identification. When a highly promising subgroup is selected this way, serious questions have to be asked a...
Creator:
He, Xuming (University of Michigan)
Created:
2018-11-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
