Unless otherwise specified, all seminars will be held in DH 1070.
January 27
Dr. Jianqing Fan, Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor in Finance
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
"Communication-Efficient Accurate Statistical Estimation"
February 3
Dr. Bin Yu, Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics, University of California-Berkeley
"Veridical Data Science"
February 10
Dr. Justin Silver, Manager of Data Science & AI Specialist and Dr. Yan Xu, Senior Data Scientist
PROS Holdings, Inc.
"Forecasting Applications in Industry: When Theory Meets Reality"
February 17
Dr. Fabrizio Ruggeri, Research Director
Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology of the Italian National Research Council
"New Classes of Priors based on Stochastic Orders: Theory and Applications in Reliability"
February 24
Dr. Anuj Srivastava, Professor and Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Statistics, Florida State University
"Functional and Shape Data Analysis"
March 2
Dr. Peter Bickel
Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School
Department of Statistics, University of California-Berkeley
"Some basic issues in network models and fitting"
March 30 - CANCELLED
Dr. Tanya Garcia, Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University - College Station
"Dynamic landmark prediction for mixture data"
April 6 - CANCELLED
Dr. Antonio Linero, Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Texas - Austin
"On Theory and Practice for Bayesian Tree Ensembles"
April 13 - McMurtry Auditorium - CANCELLED
Dr. Mark Glickman, Senior Lecturer
Department of Statistics and Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Harvard University
"Data Tripper: Authorship Attribution Analysis of Lennon-McCartney Songs"
April 20 - CANCELLED
Dr. Richard Hahn, Associate Professor of Statistics
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
| Date | Speaker/Event | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| August 26, Monday |
First Day of Classes |
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| September 2, Monday |
Labor Day - No Classes |
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| September 9, Monday |
Dr. Don H. Johnson Title: Signal Processing and Technical Examinations of Paintings |
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Rice University |
| September 16, Monday |
Dr. Christine B. Peterson Title: Flexible and informative clustering of microbiome data |
Department of Biostatistics, Divison of Basic Science Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| September 23, Monday |
Dr. Jeffrey Scargle Title: Adventures in Astronomical Time Series Analysis |
Planetary System Branch, Astrobiology and Space Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, California |
| September 30, Monday |
No Seminar |
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| October 1, Tuesday |
Thompson Lecture Series: Simulation: A plot twist |
Columbia University |
| October 7, Monday |
Dr. Quan Zhou Title: The distribution of Yule's nonsense correlation |
Texas A&M University |
| October 14, Monday |
Midterm Recess, No Seminar |
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| October 21, Monday |
Dr. Heping Zhang Title: Back to the Basics: Residuals and Diagnostics for Generalized Linear Models |
Yale University School of Public Health |
| October 28, Monday |
No Seminar |
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| October 29, Tuesday |
Dr. Eric Laber Title: Sample size considerations for precision medicine |
North Carolina State University |
| November 4, Monday |
Dr. Catherine Calder Title: The Geometry of Continuous Latent Space Models for Network Data |
Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas - Austin |
| November 11, Monday |
No Seminar iBright Conference at MD Anderson, Nov. 11-13
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| November 18, Monday |
Dr. Marek Kimmel Title: Statistical inference for the evolutionary history of cancer genomes |
Department of Statistics |
| November 25, Monday |
Thanksgiving Week, No Seminar |
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| December 2, Monday |
Dr. Surya Tokdar Title: The Joint Quantile Regression under Spatial Dependency |
Department of Statistical Science |
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December 6 |
Last Day of Classes |
