Turku Applied Mathematics and Statistics Seminar

(Partner) Seminars in Jyväskylä

JYU Optimization group of Professor Kaisa Miettinen​ Seminar is a partner seminar of the Turku Applied Mathematics and Statistics Seminar:

http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/seminar.html

JYU organizes also a statistics seminar, JYU Department of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar:

https://www.jyu.fi/science/en/maths/current/seminars/statistics-seminar

Previous talks in the seminar

2024

• Una Radojicic (Technical University of Vienna), “Explainable outlier detection for multivariate functional data”, 25th October 2024.
• Mihail Zervos (London School of Economics), “Market Equilibrium under Proportional Transaction Costs in a Stochastic Factor Model”, 22nd October 2024. 
• James C. Costello (University of Colorado Denver), “A Pathway-Level Information ExtractoR (PLIER) framework to gain mechanistic insights into obesity in Down syndrome”, 27th September 2024. 
• Adil Bagirov (Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia), “Data-driven optimization: predict, then optimize”, 13th September 2024.
• Ville Rinne (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “On multiobjective proximal bundle method for fuzzy nonsmooth optimization”, 6th September 2024.
• Wiljami Sillanpää (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “Optimal Stopping of Linear Diffusions under a Random Horizon”, 19th April 2024.
• Oona Rainio (Turku PET Centre), “Tumor segmentation by convolutional neural networks for PET images”, 12th April 2024.
• Christer Carlsson (Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research), “Real options and challenges met with fuzzy real option valuation”, 15th March 2024.
• Prabhu Manyem (Nanchang Institute of Technology), “Maximum independent set (stable set) – Computational testing with a bin packing approach”, 1st March 2024.
• Rahim Kargar (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “Harmonic approximations of analytic functions by KKT”, 9th February 2024.

2023

• Katariina Perkonoja (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “Synthetic longitudinal patient data and systematic literature review as a research tool”, 10th November 2023.
• Jouni Helske (INVEST), “Causal inference for panel data with dynamic multivariate panel models”, 27th October 2023.
• Roope Rihtamo (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “Predicting Winner and Loser Stocks: A Classification Approach”, 29th September 2023.
• Najmeh Hoseini Monjezi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran), “Minimizing locally Lipschitz functions via bundle trust region algorithms”, 25th August 2023.
• Kari Auranen (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “Efficacy and effectiveness of case isolation and quarantine during a growing phase of the COVID-19 epidemic in Finland”, 21st April 2023.
• Ville Laitinen (Department of Computing), “Probabilistic Early Warning Signals”, 31 March 2023.
• Muhamad Fikri (Tampere University), “Towards real-time and adaptive task assignment for a long duration of multi-agent systems”, 16 March 2023.
• Ville Rinne (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “Generalized convexities and semismoothness of nonsmooth functions”, 27 January 2023.

2022

• Tommi Pesonen (4Pharma), “Introduction to dose escalation designs in clinical trials – From traditional to BOIN”, 9 December 2022.
• Visa Kuntze (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “Similarity-Based Recession Prediction in Different Interest Rate Environments”, 2 December 2022.
• Joel Brown (Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA), ”Game theory, cancer, and evolutionary therapies”, 1 December 2022.
• Marko Voutilainen (Turku School of Economics), “On modeling and estimation of stationary processes and stationary fields”, 18 November 2022
• Harto Saarinen (Department of Mathematics and Statistics), “Link prediction with continuous-time classical and quantum walks”, 28 October 2022
• Anssi Ahtikoski (Natural Resources Institute Finland), 7 October 2022
• Moein Khaligh (Department of Computing), “The impact of ecological memory on the dynamics of interacting communities”, 13 May 2022
• Markus Matilainen (Turku PET Centre and Åbo Akademi University), “A brief introduction to positron emission tomography analysis”, 22 April 2022
• Bischwesvar Pratap Singh, “Solving system of nonlinear equations with gradient-based optimization algorithms”, 8 April 2022
• Una Radojicic (Vienna University of Technology), “Order Determination for Matrix-valued Observations Using Data Augmentation”, 18 March 2022
• Joni Virta, “Subsphericity testing in high dimensions”, 25 February 2022

2021

• Giovanni Misitano (University of Jyväskylä), “DESDEO: the modular and open-source Python framework for interactive multiobjective optimization”, 13 December 2021
• Volha Karelkina, “Integer linear programming approach to RNA-folding problem”, 30 August 2021
• Alaleh Maskooki, “Moving Target Travelling Sale​sman Problem: an Application to Maritime Logistics”, 12 February 2021

2020

• Olli Tuhkanen, (Turku City Data), “Käytännön optimointiongelmat ja OptaPlanner”, 13 November 2020
• Jaakko Ahola (Finnish Meteorological Institute), “Mathematical modelling in studying climate change and cloud processes”, 5 March 2020
• Prof. Prabhu Manyem (Nanchang Institute of Technology, China), “An Optimization Model for Adaptive Rescheduling of Flights After Disruptions”, 6 February 2020
• Prof. Lakdere Benkherouf (Kuwait University), “Optimal policies for a deterministic continuous-time inventory model with several suppliers”, 10 January 2020

2019

• Prof. Markku Kallio (Aalto University), “Dynamic Lindahl Equilibrium under Uncertainty: A Model for Global Cooperation on Climate Change”, 17 October 2019
• Noora Kartiosuo, “Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance – can we infer causal pathways”, 23 May 2019
• Prof. Christopher Quince, “Statistical techniques in microbial metagenomics”, 03 May 2019
• Prof. Alberto Ceselli (University of Milan), TUCS Guest Lecture “Computational Integer Programming”, 13 March 2019
• Simopekka Vänskä, “Fast computation of multiple HPV type progression under cervical cancer screening”, 21 February 2019

2018

• Sona Taheri, “Nonsmooth DC programming approach for solving minimum sum-of-squares clustering problems”, 20 December 2018
• Ville Laitinen, “Non-parametric modelling of microbiome dynamics”, 13 December 2018
• Anni Halkola, “Modelling dynamics of cancer and killer T cells”, 29 November 2018
• Prof. Adil Bagirov, “Piecewise linear regression via nonsmooth DC optimization”, 4 October 2018
• Dr. Laurent Guyon, “Computational and molecular methodologies for life sciences research programme, 31st May (jointly with CompLifeSci)
• Alaleh Maskooki, “New neural network-based learning schemes for classification and regression”, 15 March 2018

2017

• Irene Man, “Predicting type replacement using patterns of co-occurrence in cross-sectional prevalence data”, 16 November 2017
• Eero Immonen, “Shape optimization by computational fluid dynamics:  Engineering and mathematical perspectives”, 19 October 2017
• Parisa Hariri, “Drug-target deconvolution in cancer cell-lines”, 5 October 2017
• Alena Prakonina, “Finite-difference schemes and iterative methods for solving three-dimensional elliptic differential problems with mixed derivatives “, 12 May 2017
• Daniel Laajala, “Ensemble-based Penalized Cox Regression for mCRPC survival prediction for the DREAM 9.5 Challenge”, 04 May 2017
• Tomi Haanpää, “Solving Optimization Problems in Sheet Metal Industry”, 27 April 2017
• Pentti Saikkonen, “A mixture autoregressive model based on Student’s t-distribution”, 20 April 2017
• Bishwesvar Pratap, “Nonsmooth optimization and equations: methods and application”, 06 April 2017
• Timo Laukkanen, “Synthesis and optimization of industrial and communal energy systems”, 31 March 2017
• Tapio Pahikkala, “On performing ROC Analysis with Leave-Pair-Out Cross-Validation”, 23 March 2017

2016

• Henri Pesonen, “What are you looking at?”, 8 December 2016
• Evgeny Gurevsky, “Some contributions to combinatorial problems of risk handling with  budget constraint and controllable data”, 31 October 2016
• Prof. Montaz Ali, “L-infinity norm solution of an underdetermined system”, 29 September 2016
• Maiju Pesonen, “Are they talking to each other or not? – A journey to genome-wide modelling of epistasis“, 15 September 2016
• Bogdan Iancu, Emilia Kozlowska “Inferring molecular interactions from phosphoproteomics data”, 02 June 2016
• Teemu Linkosaari, “Three-dimensional bin packing problem with a stability rejection criterion”, 12 May 2016
• Jing Tang, “Mathematical modelling for the rational selection of personalized cancer drug combinations”, 28 April 2016
• Bogdan Iancu, “Optimization of drug combinations”, 17 March 2016
• Tapio Pahikkala, “Fast Kronecker product kernel methods via sampled vec trick”, 03 March 2016
• Maria Jaakola, “Validating a hypothetical pathway structure by mechanistic modelling”, 25 February 2016
• Markus Matilainen, “Some independent component analysis tools for time series data”,  04 February 2016
• Joni Virta, “Independent component analysis for tensor-valued data”, 21 January 2016

2015

• Ilmari Ahonen, “On the high-throughput analysis of patient-derived high-content cancer microtissue cultures”, 10 December 2015
• Sean Robinson, “Segmentation of image data from 3D in vitro co-culture models with Markov random fields”, 26 November 2015
• Matti Heikkonen, “Portfolio risk estimation based on independent component analysis”, 12 November 2015
• Prof. Joe Wakano, “Evolutionary branching in deme-structured populations”, 3 November 2015
• Jaakko Ahola, “Konttilaivaston reittioptimoinnista” 23 October 2015M.Sc. Alaleh Maskooki, “Application of Mathematical Programming in Pattern Recognition”, 15 October 2015
• M.Sc. Petra Virjonen, (Finnish Occupational Health Institute) “Optimized reference spectrum for rating the airborne sound insulation in buildings for neighbour noise”, 8 October 2015
• M.Sc. Teemu Daniel Laajala, “Improving the Design and Analysis of Preclinical Experiments, 17 September 2015

2014

• Seppo Pulkkinen: “Improving Radar-based Rainfall Measurements by Modern Statistical Methods”, 10 October, 2014, time: 14:15.
• Ph.D. Akram Dehnokhalaji (Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran): “Characterizing a subset of the PPS maintaining the reference hyperplane of the radial projection point”, 11 September 2014.
• Prof. Tero Aittokallio: “From drug sensitivity to target networks: multi-target modelling of treatment response”, 10 May 2014.
• Fatemehsadat Seyednasrollah: “A Comprehensive Comparison of the state of the art methods in RNA-seq Analysis””, 11 April 2014.
• Prof. Hans Metz (Leiden University): “The interplay of infectivity that decreases with virulence and limited cross-immunity: (toy) models for respiratory disease evolution”, 10 February 2014.

For more information on seminars in 2014 see also http://napsu.karmitsa.fi/courses/seminar/

2013

• Ph.D. Kirill Kuzmin (Belarusian State University, Minsk) “Stability Analysis for Vector Discrete Optimization Problem” and M.Sc. Vladimir Korotkov (Belarusian State University, Minsk) “Markowitz’s Investment Problem under Multicriteria, Uncertainty and Risk”, 13 December 2013.
• Kaisa Joki: “Nonsmooth optimization: Bundle Methods” and Outi Wilppu: “Two-Slope Parameterized Achievement Scalarizing Functions for Multiobjective Optimization”, 01 November 2013.
• Prof. Adil Bagirov, “Nonsmooth Optimization Models in Data Mining” 29 August 2013.
• Ville-Pekka Eronen, “Extended cutting plane method for MINLP and its variations generalized to deal with nonsmooth functions“, 07 June 2013
• M.Sc. Anne Seppänen, “Evolution of density-dependent cooperation and the origin of multicellularity”, 25 April 2013
• Dr. Stefan Emet, “A million-pound problem formulation“, 22 March 2013
• Sami Hokuni, “Neural networks with application to the Finnish insurance company”, 15 March 2013
• M.Sc. Pekka Matomäki, “Optimal stopping near boundaries”, 08 March 2013
• M.Sc Outi Wilppu, “Multiple gradient descent algorithms“, 01 March 2013
• Dr. Napsu Karmitsa, “Nonsmooth Optimization in 30 minutes“, 15 February 2013
• M.Sc. Seppo Pulkkinen, “Optimization Algorithms for Scalable and Robust Dimensionality Reduction“, 8 February 2013
• M.Sc. Sergii Pidlisnyi (Dnepropetrovsk State University,Ukraine), “Mathematical modelling and definition of surface strengthening best temperature conditions“, 1 February 2013

2012

• Prof. Alex Kruger (University of Ballarat, Australia), “Stationarity and regularity of infinite collections of sets“, 28 June 2012
• M.Sc. Olga Karelkina, “Interactive method based on parameterized achievement scalarizing function for multicriteria median location problem“, 21 June 2012
• Dr. Yury Nikulin, “On Accuracy and Robustness in vector Boolean optimization“, 25 May 2012
• M.Sc. Essi Laajala, “Type 1 diabetes biomarkers in human whole blood transcriptome”, 20 April 2012
• M.Sc. Antti Nurkkala, “Method for Nonlinear Segmentation of Data Using Gaussian Mixture Models“, 23 March 2012
• M.Sc. Anne Seppänen, “Evolution of complex density-dependent dispersal strategies“, 02 March 2012
• M.Sc. Pekka Matomäki, “On solvability of a two-sided singular optimal control problem“, 03 February 2012
• M.Sc. Seppo Pulkkinen, “Mode-Finding of Gaussian Mixtures“, 13 January 2012

2011

• M.Sc. Daniel Laajala, “Analysis of tumour growth experiments using mixed-effect modelling”, 25 November 2011
• Dr. Yury Nikulin, “A parameterized achievement scalarizing function for multiobjective optimization and its application in interactive decision making“, 21 October 2011
• M.Sc. Zuhair Iftikhar, “Empirical study on comparison of two different approaches for the robust shortest path problem“, 13 May 2011
• M.Sc. Seppo Pulkkinen, “Integral transformation method for constrained global optimizationsovmat15042011.pdf“, 15 April 2011
• M.Sc. Olga Karelkina, “On comparison of different approaches to the stability radius calculation“, 25 March 2011
• M.Sc. Pekka Matomäki, “Optimal stopping in stochastics“, 28 January 2011
• M.Sc. Tuomas Nurmi, “Modeling evolution of specialization – metapopulation aspect“, 14 January 2011

2010

• M.Sc. Jozsef Mezei, “Fuzzy numbers in decision making and information systems“, 19 November 2010
• M.Sc. Jarmo Heinonen, “Ensihoitomallinnuksesta“, 22 October 2010
• Dr. Dmitry Podkopaev, “Influence of preference information on the stability of multiobjective combinatorial problems“, 8 October 2010.
• Dr. Kalle Parvinen, “Adaptive dynamics…“, 17 September 2010
• M.Sc. Anne Seppänen, “Evolution of dispersal in American pika metapopulations“, 21 May 2010
• M.Sc. Olga Karelkina, “On the stability of a lexicographic optimum of the multicriteria combinatorial centre and median location problem“, 17 May 2010
• M.Sc. Roman Simecek, “Sizing Optimization of a Beam on an Elastic Unilateral Subsoil“, 07 May 2010
• M.Sc. Seppo Pulkkinen, “Recent Developments in Model-based Derivative-free Optimization“, 23 April 2010
• M.Sc. Rolf Linden, “About mechanistic underpinnings of genetic interactions“, 19 March 2010
• Dr. Napsu Karmitsa, “Kuinka pitää hyvä tai erittäin hyvä esitelmä?“, 12 March 2010