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SUMMARY:FDS Colloquium: Lior Pachter (Caltech)\, "Some open and solved prob
 lems in dimensionality reduction (for single-cell genomics data)"
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lior S. PachterBren Professor of Computational
  Biology and Computing Mathematical SciencesDivision of Biology and Biolog
 ical EngineeringCalifornia Institute of Technology\n\n\n\nWednesday\, Apri
 l 3\, 2024Lunch: 11:30 am (Kitchen)Talk: 12:00 pm (Seminar Room #1327)at t
 he Yale institute for Foundations of Data Science\, Kline Tower\, 13th Flo
 orWebcast (Starts at 12:00 pm): https://yale.zoom.us/s/3369431653\n\n\n\nT
 itle:  "Some open and solved problems in dimensionality reduction (for sin
 gle-cell genomics data)"\n\n\n\nAbstract: Dimensionality reduction is comm
 only applied as a first step prior to analysis of data in a variety of dis
 ciplines. In machine learning\, dimensionality reduction often is the anal
 ysis via embedding of data in a “latent space”. In the field of single
 -cell genomics\, dimensionality reduction is particularly popular\, specif
 ically dimensionality reduction to two dimensions. After discussing the mo
 tivation for dimensionality reduction in single-cell genomics\, I will pre
 sent several results\, along with open problems\, related to how and when 
 one should perform dimensionality reduction\, with a focus on insights gle
 aned from the genomics field.\n\n\n\nThe is joint work with Tara Chari.\n\
 n\n\nBio: Lior Pachter was born in Ramat Gan\, Israel\, and grew up in Pre
 toria\, South Africa where he attended Pretoria Boys High School. After re
 ceiving a B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech in 1994\, He left for MIT where
  he was awarded a PhD in applied mathematics in 1999. He then moved to the
  University of California at Berkeley where he was a postdoctoral research
 er (1999-2001)\, assistant professor (2001-2005)\, associate professor (20
 05-2009)\, and until 2018 the Raymond and Beverly Sackler professor of com
 putational biology and professor of mathematics and molecular and cellular
  biology with a joint appointment in computer science. Since January 2017 
 he has been the Bren professor of computational biology at Caltech.\n\n\n\
 nHis research interests span the mathematical and biological sciences\, an
 d he has authored over 100 research articles in the areas of algorithms\, 
 combinatorics\, comparative genomics\, algebraic statistics\, molecular bi
 ology and evolution. He has taught a wide range of courses in mathematics\
 , computational biology and genomics. He is a Fellow of the International 
 Society of Computational Biology and has been awarded a National Science F
 oundation CAREER award\, a Sloan Research Fellowship\, the Miller Professo
 rship\, and a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for the successful techn
 ology transfer of widely used sequence alignment software developed in his
  group.\n\n\n\nHe is married to Ingileif B. Hallgrímsdóttir and has thre
 e daughters.\n\n\n\nWebsite: https://pachterlab.github.io/index.html\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:FDS Events,Colloquium,Seminar Series
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