Selected Presentations

Relations Between Adjacency and Modularity Graph Partitioning: Principal Component Analysis vs. Modularity Component Analysis (pdf)

• Twelfth SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra
• Atlanta, GA, October 27, 2015
• Hansi Jiang,* Meyer

Ranking Sports Teams in New Ways --- A TV presentation.

Produced and distributed by Inside Science TV at the American Institute of Physics. Released on November 19, 2012.

Who's #1 Radio Interview on WRLR 98.3 LP-FM

Featured guest with Amy Langville on Tech Talk, WRLR 98.3 LP-FM radio hosted by Michael Kastler. Broadcast live on April 21, 2012.

• Download the mp3 file and then listen with any mp3 player
• Download the "Who's #1" segment with host Michael Kastler of Tech Talk from WRLR FM

Dynamical Data Clustering (pdf)

• Analytics 2011
• Orlando, Fl, October 24, 2011

Web Search and Beyond (pdf)

• Institute of Advanced Analytics
• Raleigh, NC, April 14, 2010

Clustering Presidential Election Data Over Time (pdf)

• Math Assoc. of America Southeast Section Meeting
• Elon University, Elon, NC, March 26, 2010
• Chuck Wessell,^* Meyer

A Comparison of Methods for Creating Similarity Matrices (pdf)

• 34th SIAM SEAS Conference
• Raleigh, NC, March 20-21, 2010.
• Chuck Wessell,^* Meyer

Data Mining: How Companies Use Linear Algebra (pdf)

• Math Assoc. of America Southeast Section Meeting
• Elon University, Elon, NC, March 26, 2010
• Ralph Abbey,^* Meyer

Preprocessing Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization In Conjunction With K-means (pdf)

• 34th SIAM SEAS Conference
• Raleigh, NC, March 20-21, 2010.
• Ralph Abbey,^* Meyer

Rush vs Pass: Modeling the NFL (pdf)

• Joint AMS MAA Mathematics Meeting,
• San Francisco, CA, January 13-16, 2010, Poster,
• Holodnak,^* May, Moeller, Abbey, Meyer

A Comparison of Consensus Clustering Methods (pdf)

• Southeastern Clustering and Ranking Workshop
• Charleston, SC, August 13-15, 2009.
• Wessell,^* Meyer

Dimension Reduction and Iterative Consensus Clustering (pdf)

• Southeastern Clustering and Ranking Workshop
• Charleston, SC, August 13-15, 2009.
• Race,^* Meyer

Feature Extraction From Textual Datasets (pdf)

• Southeastern Clustering and Ranking Workshop
• Charleston, SC, August 13-15, 2009.
• Moran,^* Herwaldt, Salter, Race, Abbey, Meyer

Offense-Defense Approach to Ranking With Applications to Team Sports (pdf)

• Southeastern Clustering and Ranking Workshop
• Charleston, SC, August 13-15, 2009.
• Govan,^* Langville, Meyer

Opinion Mining Textual Datasets (pdf)

• SAS Institute
• Cary, NC, December 15, 2008.
• Moran,^* Herwaldt, Salter, Race, Abbey, Meyer

Beating the Spread: Predicting Game Outcomes With A New Ranking Model (pdf)

• M2008 Data Mining Conference
• Las Vegas, Nevada, October 27,28, 2008.
• Govan,^* Meyer, Langville, Albright

Extracting Topics From Product Reviews (pdf)

• Notre Dame College of Science Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium
• Notre Dame, October 9, 2008.
• Herwaldt^*, Moran, Salter, Race, Abbey, Meyer

Generalizing Google's PageRank to Rank National Football League Teams

• The Paper
• The Talk
• Govan,^* Meyer, Albright
• SAS Global Forum, San Antonio Texas, March 16, 2008
  Award for best contributed paper in Data Mining and Predictive Modeling

Ranking National Football League Teams Using Google's PageRank (pdf)

• INFORMS Annual Meeting 2007
• Joint Session DM/ICS/CPMS: Real World Applications of Text Mining
• Seattle Washington, November 4, 2007
• Govan,^* Meyer, Albright

Google's PageRank and Beyond (pdf black background presentation)

• 2007 Mathematics Department Alumni Award
• Colorado State University
• Fort Collins Colorado, November 2, 2007

Can I Get A Job? (pdf black background presentation)

• CSU Math Day, November 1, 2007
• Colorado State University
• Fort Collins Colorado, November 1, 2007

Data Clustering and Mining (pdf)

• Mid-Hudson Mathematics Conference
• Bard College, October 20, 2007
• Zhou^*, Abbey, Diepenbrock, Langville, Meyer, Race

New Ranking Methods With Applications To Sports (pdf poster)

• Southeastern Atlantic Applied Mathematical Sciences Workshop (Cha-Cha Days Goes to NIA)
• National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, October 19, 2007
• Govan,^* Meyer

Clustering with the SVD (pdf, 700KB, black background)

• 2007 International Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra in Internet and Large Scale Applications, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo
• Monopoli, Italy, September 11, 2007
• Langville,^* Basabe, Meyer

Google's Page Rank and Beyond

The 2007 LAA Lecture, U. Wisconsin, May 4, 2007

• The Black pdf files
• The White pdf files

Applying The Theory of Markov Chains to the Problem of Sports Ranking

• American Mathematical Society Southeastern Meeting
• Davidson University, March 10, 2007, Charlotte, NC
• Govan,^* Meyer

Applying Theory of Markov Chains to the Problem of Ranking

• The ACES Workshop
• Emory University, December 2-3, 2006, Atlanta, GA
• Govan,^* Meyer

The Science Of Search Engine Rankings

Broadcast 11/28/06 on AirTalk, a featured program on Southern California's premiere public radio station 89.3 KPCC-FM.

• Listen to the mp3 file
• Download streaming audio file from KPCC and listen to the broadcast with RealOne Player

Ranking Methods

• Southeastern Atlantic Mathematical Sciences Workshop
• Charleston, SC, September 29 - October 1, 2006 (Cha-Cha Days)
• Govan,^* Meyer

Updating Markov Chains

• The pdf presentation in black pages
• The pdf presentation in white pages

• A. A. Markov Anniversary Meeting Meeting
• Charleston, SC June 13, 2006
• Meyer,^* Langville

Ranking National League Football Teams Using Google's PageRank

• A. A. Markov Anniversary Meeting
• Charleston, SC June 13, 2006
• Govan,^* Meyer

How Search Engines Work (pdf)

• NC State PAMS Alumni and Friends Meeting
• North Carolina State University, September 23, 2005

Information Retrieval and Web Search pdf (black background), (white background)

• Scientific Horizon Seminar
• SAC Capital Managment, LLC, New York City, NY, July 14, 2005

Eigenvector Methods in Information Retrieval (pdf, 420KB, black background)

• SIAM Annual Meeting
• New Orleans, LA, August 12, 2005
• Langvill,^* Meyer

ALS Algorithms for the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization in Text Mining (pdf, 220KB, black background)

• SAS Symposium on Nonnegative Factorizations in Text Mining
• SAS Institute, Cary, NC, June 9, 2005
• Langville,^* Meyer

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization in Text Mining

• SAS Institute. Cary, NC, April 22, 2005
• Langville,^* Meyer

Text Mining using the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (pdf 396KB)

• 29th annual SIAM Southeast Atlantic Section Conference
• Charleston, SC, March 25, 2005
• Langville,^* Meyer

Updating The Stationary Distribution for an Irreducible Markov Chain (pdf 168KB)

• Information Retrieval Minisymposium, 29th annual SIAM Southeast Atlantic Section Conference
• Charleston, SC, March 25-26, 2005
• Chanchana^*, Meyer, Langville

PART 1 --- Short Course on Information Retrieval and Web Search (pdf, 388KB, black background)

• Annual MAA Southeastern Meeting
• Meredith College, March 11-12, 2005
• Langville,^* Meyer

Part 2 --- Short Course on Information Retrieval and Web Search (pdf, 2.3MB, black background)

• Annual MAA Southeastern Meeting
• Meredith College, March 11-12, 2005
• Meyer,^* Langville

Updating The Stationary Vector of an Irreducible Markov Chain With an Eye on Google's PageRank (pdf, 300KB, black background)

• SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering
• Orlando, Florida, February 12-15, 2005
• Langville,^* Meyer

Experiments with the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and the Reuters10 Dataset

• SAS Institute. Cary, NC, February 9, 2005
• Langville,^* Meyer

Scalability and Robustness of the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Text Mining

• SAS Institute. Cary, NC, December 20, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

An Introduction to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines (pdf, 19.5MB, black background)

• Columbia University, Applied Mathematics Dept.
• New York, NY, November 23, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

Applying Nonnegative Matrix Factorization to Text Mining

• SAS Institute. Cary, NC, November 18, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

An Introduction to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines (pdf, 19.6MB (black background)

• Southeastern Atlantic Mathematics Sciences Workshop
• Charleston, SC, September 17-19, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

Updating The PageRank Vector, (pdf, 452 KB, black background), (same but white background)

• SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July 15, 2004
• Minisymposium on Markov Chains and PageRank
• Meyer,^* Langville

Introduction to Link Analysis Used by Google (pdf, 16.5 MB, black background)

• SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, July 15, 2004
• Minisymposium on Markov Chains and PageRank
• Langville,^* Meyer

Updating and Reordering for the PageRank Problem (pdf, 16.6MB black background)

• International Conference on The Mathematics of Web Search and Meta-Search
• Bertinoro, Italy, June 19-26, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

Updating PageRank with Iterative Aggregation (pdf, 1.7MB poster format)

• World Wide Web Conference
• New York, NY, May 19-21, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

An Introduction to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines (pdf, 19.5MB, black background)

• Mathematics& Computer Science Dept
• Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, MD. April 19, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

Solution Methods for the PageRank Problem (pdf, 1.2MB, black background)

• Mathematics Dept
• College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. February 27, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

Updating PageRank (pdf, 1.2MB, black background)

• Mathematics & Computer Science Dept
• Emory University, Atlanta, GA, January 30, 2004
• Langville,^* Meyer

Updating PageRank (pdf, 1.2MB, black background)

• Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics
• Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. November 17, 2003
• Langville,^* Meyer

Linked Data and a MFPT Alternative to LSI

• SAS Institute. Cary, NC. October 29, 2003
• Langville,^* Meyer

Mathematical Fuel For Search Engines, (pdf, 4.1 MB, black background), (same but white background)

• Keynote Plenary Address at the 28th annual SIAM Southeast Atlantic Section Conference
• East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN April 2-4, 2004
• Meyer,^* Langville

The Life and Work of A. A. Markov (pdf, 13.6MB)

• Keynote Plenary Address at the Fourth International Conference on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 5, 2003
• Langville,^* Meyer

Updating the Stationary Distribution of a Markov Chain (pdf, 360KB)

• Presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 4, 2003
• Langville,^* Meyer

Introduction to Markov Based Information Retrieval Systems (pdf, 12.9MB)

• Presented at the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra
• College of William and Mary, July 19, 2003
• Langville,^* Meyer

Updating Large Markov Chains (pdf, 13.7M, black background)

• Presented at The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
• Workshop on Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications, August 4-8, 2003
• Meyer,^* Langville

Mathematical Fuel for Search Engines (pdf, 880K)

• Presented at The Joint Operations Research, Numerical Analysis, and Mathematical Bridges Seminar
• Mathematics Department, North Carolina State University 4/15/2003
• Meyer,^* Langville

LSI vs Link Analysis: A Survey (pdf, 208K)

• Presented at The Boeing Company
• Bellevue, WA, 1/23/2003
• Meyer,^* Langville

In Search of a Matrix: Information Retrieval Systems (pdf, 208K)

• Presented at The 2001 Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society
• University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada, June 2, 2001
• Meyer,^* Langville

Uncoupling Techniques Involving Nonnegative Matrices (pdf, 332K)

• The Conference in Honor of Robert J. Plemmons
• Wake Forest University, January 8-9, 1999

Sensitivity Of Markov Chains (pdf, 68K)

• The 7th Conference of the International Linear Society
• Madison, Wisconsin, June 3-6, 1998

Aggregation Methods for Nearly Uncoupled Systems

• The International Linear Algebra Year, Eigenvalues and Beyond, at CERFACS in Toulouse, France, October 17-20, 1995.
• The Boeing Co, Bellevue, WA, September 28, 1995.
• Fifth Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society, Atlanta, GA, August 16-19, 1995.