Fall 2012
| Fall 2012 | Organizer: Francisco Samaniego | |||
| Date | Series | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| Thur, Oct 11 | STA | Jan Hannig | Univ. North Carolina | “On Generalized Fiducial Inference” |
| Tue, Oct 16 | STA | Sanjay Chaudhuri | Natl Univ. Singapore | “A Conditional Empirical Likelihood Approach to Combine Sampling Design and Population Level Information” |
| Thur, Oct 18 | STA/ BST | Donald Edwards | Univ. South Carolina | "Statistics and Healthcare Fraud" |
| Thur, Oct 25 | STA | Colin Cameron | Dept Economics, UC Davis | "Robust Inference with Dyadic Data: with Applications to Country Pair International Trade" |
| Thur, Nov 8 | RTG | Pradeep Ravikumar | Univ. Texas | “Graphical models via generalized linear models” |
| Tue, Nov 13 | BST | Richard Olshen | Stanford Univ. | “Successive Normalization/Standardization of Rectangular Arrays” |
| Thur, Nov 15 | STA | Abhyuday Mandal | Univ. Georgia | “Multi-objective optimal experimental designs for event-related fMRIstudies” |
| Tue, Nov 27 | BST | Katherine Pollard | Gladstone Inst & UC San Francisco | “Quantifying taxonomic and functional diversity of metagenomes from next-generation sequencing data” |
| Thur, Nov 29 | RTG | Victor Patrangenaru | Florida State Univ. | “Data analysis on sample spaces with a manifold stratification” |
| Tue, Dec 4 | BST | Bruce Rannala | Genome Center, UC Davis | "Statistical analysis of pooled samples for whole-genome case-control associations: A study of lung cancer in Thailand using 660,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms" |
Winter 2013
| Winter 2013 | Organizer: Jiming Jiang | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| Tue, Jan 8 | Bonnie Kirkpatrick | U British Columbia (Canada) | Biological models with combinatorial spaces |
| Thur, Jan 10 | Lingzhou Xue | Princeton U | Regularized Learning of High-dimensional Sparse Graphical Models |
| Fri, Jan 11 (2:10) | Ping Li | Cornell U | BigData: probabilistic methods for efficient search and statistical learning in extremely high-dimensional data |
| Fri, Jan 11 (4:10), | James Long | UC Berkeley | Classification of Sparse, Irregularly Sampled Time Series and Heterogeneous Feature Noise |
| Mon, Jan 14 (10:30) | Noah Simon | Stanford U | A new approach to high-dimensional interaction testing |
| Mon, Jan 14 (1:30) | Hao Chen | Stanford U | Graph-based change-point detection |
| Wed, Jan 16 (2:10) | Jingyi Jessica Li | UC Berkeley | Statistical methods for analyzing high-throughput genomic data |
| Thur, Jan 17 | Kevin Murphy | Google Inc. | Probabilistic Models for Learning from Big, Complex Data |
| Tue, Jan 22 | Guy Lebanon | Georgia Tech | Stochastic m-Estimators and the tradeoff between statistical accuracy and computational complexity |
| Mon, Jan 28 (1:10) | Mladen Kolar | Carnegie Mellon U | Exploring dynamic complex systems using time-varying networks |
| Wed, Jan 30 (2:10) | Anirban Bhattacharya | Duke U | Bayesian shrinkage |
| Thur, Jan 31 (4:10) | Victor Panaretos | EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland) | Doubly spectral analysis of stationary functional sequences |
| Mon, Feb 4 (1:10) | John Aston | U Warwick (UK) | Some aspects of statistical neuroimaging |
| Tue, Feb 5 (4:10) | Michael Kane | Yale U | Subspace ensembles for acalable statistical analyses |
| Thur, Feb 7 (4:10) | Byeong Park | Seoul National U (Korea) | Model selection via Bayesian information criterion for quantile regression models |
| Feb 12 - Feb 26 | no seminar | ||
| Thur, Feb 28 (4:10) | John Neuhaus | UC San Francisco | Likelihood-based analysis of longitudinal data from outcome-dependent sampling designs |
| Tue, Mar 5 (4:10) | Sharif Aly | Vet Med, UC Davis | Intraclass correlation coefficient for the negative binomial mixed model |
| Thur, Mar 7 (4:10) | Xuming He | U Michigan | Bivariate quantile and statistical downscaling for climate projections |
| Tue, Mar 12 (4:10) | Eric Kolczyk | Boston U | Network-based statstica models and methods for identification of cellular mechanism of action |
| Mon Mar 18 (4:10) | Axel Munk | Georg August U / Max Planck Inst for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Germany) | Multiscale change point inference |
Spring 2013
| Spring 2013 : STA 290 | Organizer: Wolfgang Polonik | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| Thur, Apr 4 | Andrew Nobel | Univ North Carolina | Large Average Submatrices of a Gaussian Random Matrix: Landscapes and Local Optima |
| Tue Apr 9 (at UC Berkeley) | Jie Peng (BERKELEY - DAVIS JOINT COLLOQUIUM) | Statistics, UC Davis | High dimensional graphical model learning |
| Thur, Apr 11 | Siegfried Hörmann | Brussels | Dynamic functional principal components |
| Thur, Apr 18 | Jonathan Taylor | Stanford Univ | A significance test for adaptive linear modeling |
| Thur, May 2 | Harry Chang | Army Research Office's Program Director for Probability and Statistics | Optimal Stopping with Memory: Recent Results and Open Problems |
| Thur, May 9 | Pedro Delicado | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (Spain) | Data-based decision rules about the convexity of the support of a distribution |
| Tue, May 21 | Amit Singer Joint Math-Stats Colloquium | Princeton U | Three-dimensional structire determination of molecules without crystallization |
| Thur, May 23 | Jay Wang | Hewlett Packard | Boosted semiparametric multinomial logit model for leveraging aggregated sales data |
| Thur, May 30 | Jiming Jiang | Statistics, UC Davis | Consistency of MLE in GLMM: Answer to an Open Problem and Beyond |
| Tue, June 4 | Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa | Statistics, UC Davis Stanford U | Distributions of Demmel and Related Condition Numbers |
| Thur, June 6 | Laurent Jacob | UC Berkeley | Correcting gene expression data when neither the unwanted variation nor the factor of interest are observed |
Summer 2013
| Fall 2012 | Organizer: Francisco Samaniego | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| Fri, Sept 6 | Samuel Gerber | Duke Univ. | “Visualization and regression of high-dimensional scalar functions using the Morse-Smale complex” |
| Tue, Sep 17 | Giles Hooker | Cornell Univ. | "Optimal adaptive design of experiments for stochastic dynamic systems” |