Seminars 2013-14

FALL 2013

Organizer:Duncan Temple Lang

Thur Oct 3
Speaker: Patrice Koehl, Computer Science, UC Davis
Title: "What Big Data can tell you - and why it matters"
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Thur Oct 10 *Location: Multi-Purpose Room, Student Community Center
Speaker: Steve Scott, Google
Title: "Bayes and Big Data"
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Thur Oct 17
Speaker: John Owens, Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC Davis
Title: "What's new with the GPU? Programmable parallel processing for future computing"
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Thur, Nov 7
Speaker: Dean Eckles, Facebook
Title: "Peer effects and global treatments: Design and analysis of experiments in networks"
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Thur, Nov 21
Speaker: James Flegal, UC Riverside
Title: "Relative fixed-width stopping rules for Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations"
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Tue, Nov 26
Speaker: Dimitri Politis, UC Riverside
Title: "Modelfree prediction intervals for regression and autoregression"
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Tue Dec 3
Speaker: Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn
Title: "Response Prediction for Computational Advertising Applications"
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WINTER 2014

Organizer: Ethan Anderes

Tuesday, January 7th 2014:
Arash Amini, University of Michigan
Title: "Pseudo-likelihood methods for community detection in large sparse networks"
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Thursday, January 9th 2014:
Po-Ling Loh, UC Berkeley
Title: "Nonconvex methods for high-dimensional regression with noisy and missing data"
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Monday, January 13th 2014:
Yaniv Plan, University of Michigan
Title: "Low-dimensionality in mathematical signal processing"
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Thursday, January 16th 2014:
Quentin Berthet, Princeton U
Title: "Statistical and computational tradeoffs in high-dimensional learning"
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Tuesday, January 21st 2014:
Susan Wei, UNC Chapel Hill
Title: "Latent supervised learning"
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Tuesday, January 28th 2014:
Yunzhang Zhu, U Minnesota
Title: "Estimation over multiple undirected graphs"
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Thursday, January 30th 2014:
Lutz Dümbgen, U Bern, Switzerland
Title: "New Algorithms for M-Estimation of Multivariate Location and Scatter "
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Tuesday, February 4th 2014:
Yanyuan Ma, Texas A&M U
Title: "A Semiparametric View to Dimension Reduction: Estimation, Inference and Efficiency "
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Thursday, February 20th 2014:
Fushing Hsieh, UC Davis
Title: "Before Statistics on networks"
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Thursday, February 27th 2014:
John Miles White, Facebook
Title: "Julia and statistical computing"
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Thursday, March 6th 2014:
Domenico Marinucci, U Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Title: "The geometry of needlets excursion sets".
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Thursday, March 13th 2014:
Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia U
Title: "Nonparametric convex regression"
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SPRING 2014

Organizer: Alex Aue

Thursday, April 3rd 2014:
Debashis Paul, UC Davis
Title: "Limiting spectral distribution of normalized sample autocovariance matrices of linear time series when $p,n \to \infty$ such that $p/n \to 0$."
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Wednesday, April 9th 2014, LOCATION: 53A OLSON:
Stefan Gries (UC Santa Barbara) **Joint Stats-Linguistics Seminar**
Title : "On the need for (improving) quantitative corpus methods”
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Thursday, April 10th 2014:
Stefan Gries (UC Santa Barbara) **Joint Stats-Linguistics Seminar**
Title : "Quantitative methods in corpus linguistics: examples and requests for feedback”
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Thursday, April 17th:
Wei Biao Wu (Univ. Chicago)
Title: "An $L^2$ Test Theory for Nonstationary Time Series"
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Tuesday April 22nd: Weng Kee Wong (UCLA)
Joint Stat/Biostat seminar Title: "Using Animal Instincts to Find Efficient Experimental Designs"
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Thursday, April 24th: Michael Stein (Univ. Chicago)
Title : "Quantitative methods in corpus linguistics: examples and requests for feedback”
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Thursday, May 1st: Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley) **Joint Berkeley-Davis Colloquium**
Title : "On the Statistical-Computational Interface”
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TUESDAY, May 6th 2014:
Iain Johnstone (Stanford University) **Joint Stats-Biostats Seminar**
Title : "Random matrices in statistics: testing in spiked models”
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Thursday, May 8th: Laurent El Ghaoui (UC Berkeley) **Joint Math-Stats Symposium**
Title : "Robust Sketching for Large-Scale Optimization”
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Friday, May 16th @ 3:10pm: Prakasa Rao (Univ. Hyderabad, India)
Title: "Statistical inference for fractional diffusion processes"
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Thursday, May 22nd: Ana Kupresanin (Lawrence Livermore)
Title: "A statistical perspective on the validation and uncertainty quantification of computational models"
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SUMMER 2014

Thursday, July 18th: Mark Berman (CSIRO Digital Productivity and Services)
Title : "Some Statistical Problems in Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging
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