FALL 2015:
Fall Seminar Instructor: Fushing Hsieh
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
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Thursday, Sept 24 |
James Sharpnack | Statistics, UC Davis | "Trend filtering on graphs" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Oct 1 | Tomoyuki Ichiba | UC Santa Barbara | "Walsh semimartingales and diffusions on metric graphs" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Oct 8 | Rob Hyndman | Monash Univ. | "Optimal forecast reconciliation for big time series data" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Oct 15 | Chris Fassnacht | Physics, UC Davis | "Measuring Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Oct 22 | Patrice Koehl | Computer Sci, UC Davis | "Measuring the geometric similarities of genus-zero surfaces" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Oct 29 | Martin Hilbert | Communication, UC Davis | "Big Data, Big Opportunities, Big Threats" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Nov 5 | Andy Sih | Environmental Sci & Policy, UC Davis | "Integrating behavioral syndromes (aka animal personalities) with social behavior and ecology" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Nov 12 | Susan Holmes | Stanford Univ. | "Analyzing data from perturbation experiments: the case of the human microbiome" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Nov 19 | Joan Bruna Estrach | UC Berkeley | "Signal Recovery from Scattering Convolutional Networks" - ABSTRACT |
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WINTER 2016:
Fall Seminar Instructor: Prof. Hans-Georg Mueller
Location: MSB 1147, Colloquium Room. Thursdays at 4:10pm (unless otherwise stated - please note that the first weeks of January have multiple seminars each week).
ALL SEMINARS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Students who wish to register for STA 290 credit (1 unit), please contact the instructor for instructions on minimum attendance for credit.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
|
Tuesday Jan 5 |
Weijie Su |
Stanford Univ. |
"Multiple Testing and Adaptive Estimation via the Sorted L-One Norm" - ABSTRACT |
| Wednesday Jan 6 |
Bhaswar Bhattacharya |
Stanford Univ. | “Power of Graph-Based Two-Sample Tests” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday, Jan 7 |
Chao Gao |
Yale Univ. | “Network analysis: community detection and graphon estimation” - ABSTRACT |
| Tuesday Jan 12 | Mariana Olvera-Cravioto |
Columbia Univ. |
"Efficient simulation for weighted branching trees" - ABSTRACT |
| Wednesday Jan 13 | Yun Yang | UC Berkeley | “Computationally efficient high-dimensional variable selection via Bayesian procedures” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Jan 14 | Yen-Chi Chen | Carnegie Mellon Univ. | "Statistical inference using geometric features" - ABSTRACT |
| Tuesday Jan 19 (4:10pm) | Can Le | Univ. Michigan | "Structure of sparse random networks" - ABSTRACT |
| Wednesday Jan 20 (10:30am) | Julia Palacios | Harvard Univ. / Brown Univ. | “Inference of Population Size Trajectories from Genomic Data” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Jan 21 | NO SEMINAR |
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| Thursday Jan 28 | NO SEMINAR |
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| Tuesday Feb 2 |
Sayan Mukherjee |
Duke Univ. |
"Inference and dynamics" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Feb 4 |
NO SEMINAR: Xiaodong Li's seminar has been moved to March 3 |
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| Thursday Feb 11 | Satish Iyengar |
Univ. Pittsburgh |
"Lower Tail Independence of Hitting Times of Two-Dimensional Diffusions" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Feb 18 | Francisco Beltran |
Lawrence Livermore Statistics Group |
"Measuring the effects of volcanic areosols on different climate variables" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Feb 25 | Aaditya Ramdas |
UC Berkeley |
"The p-Filter: multilayer FDR control for grouped hypotheses" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Mar 3 | Xiaodong Li |
Statistics, UC Davis |
“Convexified modularity maximization for degree-corrected stochastic block models” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Mar 10 | Jinchi Lv |
Univ. Southern California |
"Interaction Pursuit with Feature Screening and Selection" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Mar 17 | NO SEMINAR |
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SPRING 2016
Spring 2016 Seminar Instructor: Hao Chen
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
|
Thursday March 31 |
Gourab Mukherjee |
Univ. Southern California |
“Empirical Bayes Prediction for the Multivariate Newsvendor Loss Function” - ABSTRACT |
| MONDAY April 4, 10:00am |
Greg Rice |
University of Waterloo |
"Stationarity testing and break date estimation with functional time series" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 7 | Xiaoming Huo | Georgia Tech | "A Distributed Estimator based on a One-Step Approach"- ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 14 |
Bin Yu |
UC Berkeley | *UC BERKELEY / UC DAVIS JOINT SEMINAR* Title: "Unveiling the mysteries in spatial gene expression" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 21 | Bimal Sinha |
Univ. Maryland |
"An overview of data analysis under confidentiality protection - analysis of noise multiplied and synthetic data" - ABSTRACT |
| Tuesday April 26 |
NL Shasha Jumbe | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
“Precision Public Health: Precision Targeting of Prevention and Therapeutic Interventions in vulnerable populations” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 28 | Lek-Heng Lim | Univ. Chicago |
*JOINT MATH/STATS COLLOQUIUM* Title: "Cohomology and Data" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 5 |
Runze Li |
Penn State Univ. |
"Hypothesis testing on linear structures of high dimensional covariance matrix" - ABSTRACT |
| Tuesday May 10 | Tingting Zhang | Univ. Virginia | "Bayesian Inference of High-Dimensional, Cluster-Structured Ordinary Differential Equation Models with Applications to Brain Connectivity Studies" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 12 | Yajun Mei |
Georgia Tech. |
"Scalable SUM-shrinkage schemes for monitoring large-scale data streams" - ABSTRACT |
| Tuesday May 17 | Stanislav Volgushev | Cornell Univ. | "Distributed computing for quantile regression: a statistical analysis" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 19 | Yanming Di |
Oregon State Univ. |
“Identify stably expressed genes from multiple RNA-Seq data sets” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 26 | Han Liu |
Princeton Univ. |
“Nonparametric Graphical Model” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday June 2 |
Wen Zhou |
Colorado State Univ. |
“Some new statistical testing procedures under weak conditions on the dependence structure” - ABSTRACT |
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SUMMER 2016
No Seminars in Summer 2016