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Jun Zhang on Laplacian Eigenfunctions Learn Population Structure

Published: April 16, 2012, 8:51 a.m.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference: "Laplacian Eigenfunctions Learn Population Structure". This conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October of 2010, at the age of 43. Partha made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition. The underlying themes of learning from observations and a rigorous basis for algorithms and models permeated his work.