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SUMMARY:Optimal Control and Filtering
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sameer Kamal\nSchool of Technology and Computer Scienc
 e\nTata Institute of Fundamental Research\nHomi Bhabha Road\n\nAbstract: \
 nConsider the problem: A committee interviews a stream of N candidates for
  selecting one. It has to accept or reject each candidate immediately afte
 r his/her interview. By rejecting the first half and accepting the first c
 andidate thereafter who is the best so far\, the committee can select the 
 best person with a probability 1/4. Playing around with different cut-off 
 times\, one can increase this probability to 1/e. We'll use Optimal Stoppi
 ng to show that 1/e is the best one can do (the material is borrowed from 
 S.R.S. Varadhan's notes for a first Probability course).\n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/41
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091031
LOCATION:A-212 (STCS Seminar Room)
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