2012 - Autumn semester

December 27, 12:00 PM, Room #58
sc:ala cocktail party

December 20, 12:00 PM, Room #60
Damjan Krstajić (Belgrade): Fundamentals of Bayesian statistics: The Bayes factor

In modern statistics, there are two dominant (and fundamentally different) approaches: the frequency-based one, and the Bayesian one. Both of these have advantages and disadvantages, as well as their area of application. The Bayesian statistics has witnessed a rapid growth in the last few decades, mostly due to the development of computers' capabilities. In this lecture we will present the Bayesian critique of hypothesis testing procedures, and the application of the Bayes factor as an alternative.

December 13, 12:00 PM, Room #60
Igor Dolinka (Novi Sad): The finite basis problem for unary matrix semigroups

This will be a reprise of my talks given in September in St Andrews and in November in Manchester. The abstract in pdf form can be seen here.

December 6, 12:00 PM, Room #60
Vladimir Kostić (Novi Sad): Classes of matrices of block-DD type

November 29, 12:00 PM, Room #60
Miloš Stojaković (Novi Sad): Winning fast in positional games on graphs

For various standard positional games played on the edges of the complete graph for which it is clear who the winner is, we try to determine how fast can that player win.

November 22, 12:00 PM, Room #60
Ljiljana Cvetković (Novi Sad): Eventually *** matrices

A matrix is called eventually non-negative  if each entry of its kth power is nonnegative, for all sufficiently large integers k. Instead of non-negativity, some other well known matrix properties, like SDD, or M-, or H- could be also generalised in a similar fashion.

November 8, 12:00 PM, Room #60
Ksenija Doroslovački, Vladimir Kostić, Ljiljana Cvetković (Novi Sad): A report from China