SPRING 2017:
Spring 2017 Seminar Instructor: Prof. Jie Peng
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
| Thursday April 6th | Heping Zhang | Yale University | "Surrogate Residuals: a little thing to pick up" - ABSTRACT |
| Friday April 7th, 4:10pm | Ravi Kannan | Microsoft Research India |
**Joint Math/Stat Colloquium** Title: "Random Algorithms in Linear Algebra" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 13th | Jingchen Liu | Columbia University | " A fused latent and graphical model" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 20th LOCATION: UC BERKELEY | Ethan Anderes |
Statistics, UC Davis |
**Joint Berkeley/Davis Colloquium** Title: "Lensing and delensing the cosmic microwave background” ABSTRACT (note: this links to UC Berkeley Stats dept). This seminar will be held at UC Berkeley. |
| Thursday April 27th | Avi Feller | UC Berkeley | “Principal stratification in the Twilight Zone: Weakly separated components in finite mixture models” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 4th | Marc Coram | Google Inc | "Machine Learning Research Applications" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 11th | Alois Kneip | University of Bonn, Germany | "On the Optimal Reconstruction of Partially Observed Functional Data" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 18th | Hongtu Zhu | University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center | “Statistical Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies in Large-Scale Medical Studies” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 25th | Gerald Quon | Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis | “Statistical applications in human genomics” - ABSTRACT |
| Friday May 26th, 11:00am | Qiuyan Xu | Cignifi Inc | “Mobile Wallet Usage Study: analyzing and predicting mobile wallet adoption and activity with the help of call detail records” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday June 1st | Cho-Jui Hsieh | Statistics / Computer Science, UC Davis | "Learninf grom Comparison" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday June 8th | Matt Glasser | Washington University, St. Louis | “The Human Connectome Project’s Multi-modal Cortical Parcellation” - ABSTRACT |
ALL SEMINARS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
WINTER 2017:
Winter 2017 Seminar Instructor: Prof. Miles Lopes
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
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Mon, Jan 9th, 4:10pm |
Maria DeYoreo | Duke University | Title:
“Dynamic ordinal regression modeling for temporal relationships between fish maturity, length, and age” - ABSTRACT |
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Tue, Jan 10th, 4:10pm |
Murat Erdogdu | Stanford University | Title : “Design and Analysis of Optimization Algorithms via Statistical Tools” - ABSTRACT |
| Wed, Jan 11th, 11:00am | Yifei Sun | Johns Hopkins University | Title “Recurrent Marker Processes in the Presence of Competing Terminal Events” - ABSTRACT |
| Wed, Jan 11th, 4:10pm (MSB 2112) | Won Hwa Kim | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Title : “A Multi-resolution Framework for Statistical Analysis of Neuroimaging Data on Graphs” - ABSTRACT |
| Thur, Jan 12th, 4:10pm | Mauricio Sadinle | Duke University | Title “A Bayesian Partitioning Approach to Duplicate Detection and Record Linkage” - ABSTRACT |
| Fri, Jan 13th, 4:10pm | Tzu-Yu (Joyce) Liu | University of Pennsylvania | Title “Translation Dynamics Revealed by Statistical Learning for Ribosome Profiling Data” - ABSTRACT |
| Tue, Jan 17th, 4:10pm | Xiaoying Tian Harris | Stanford University |
Title “Prediction error after model search” - |
| Wed, Jan 18th, 4:10pm (MSB 2112) | Samuel Pimentel | University of Pennsylvania | Title "Constructed second control groups and attenuation of unmeasured biases" - ABSTRACT |
| Thur, Jan 26th, 4:10pm | Bala Rajaratnam | UC Davis | Title: “MCMC-Based Inference in the Era of Big Data: A Fundamental Analysis of the Convergence Complexity of High-Dimensional Chains” - ABSTRACT |
| Thur, Feb 9th, 4:10pm | Jim Pitman | UC Berkeley | Title: "Hidden symmetries, limit laws and Bessel processes in the extreme order statistics of random walks" - ABSTRACT |
| Thur, Feb 16th, 4:10pm | Art Owen | Stanford University | Title: Moment Based Estimation and Inference for Very Large Linear Mixed Effects Models - ABSTRACT |
| Thur, Feb 23rd, 4:10pm | Aditya Guntuboyina |
UC Berkeley | Title: Spatial Adaptivity in Trend Filtering - ABSTRACT |
| Mon, Feb 27, 4:10pm (MSB 1143) | Alex Belloni | Duke University |
*JOINT ECONOMETRICS/STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM* Title: "Uniformly Valid Post-Regularization Confidence Regions for Many Functional Parameters in Z-Estimation Framework" - ABSTRACT |
| Thur, Mar 2nd, 4:10pm | Denis Chetverikov | UCLA | "On Cross-Validated Lasso" - ABSTRACT |
| Thur, Mar 9th, 4:10pm | Shu Shen | UC Davis | “Testing Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Regression Discontinuity Designs” - ABSTRACT |
| Fri, Mar 10th, 3:10pm | Indranil Mukhopadhyay | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata | "Multi-loci association test in genetic association study using similarity between individuals" - ABSTRACT |
FALL 2016:
Fall Seminar Instructor: Prof. James Sharpnack
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
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Thursday Sep 22 |
Victor Solo |
Univ of New South Wales, Australia |
“System Identification for Multivariate Point Processes with Applications to Neural Coding, High Frequency Finance and Genomics” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Oct 6 |
Axel Munk |
Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany | "Nanostatistics – Statistics for Nanoscopy"- ABSTRACT |
| Friday, Oct 7 (11am) | Axel Munk | Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany | "Multiscale Blind Source Separation"- ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Oct 13 |
Rajarshi Guhaniyogi |
UC Santa Cruz |
"Scalable Bayesian regression framework for tensor valued objects" - ABSTRACT |
| Friday Oct 14 | Debasis Sengupta | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata / UC Santa Barbara | "Feature sensitive and automated curve registration with paleo-climatic application" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Oct 20 |
Hira Koul |
Michigan State Univ. |
"A Goodness-of-fit test for marginal distribution of linear random fields with long memory" - ABSTRACT |
| Friday Oct 21 | Daniel McDonald | Indiana Univ. Bloomington | "Approximation-regularization for the analysis of large data sets" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Oct 27 |
Luis Rademacher |
Dept. Math, UC Davis |
"Provably efficient high dimensional feature extraction" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Nov 3 |
Mladen Kolar |
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business |
“Inference in high-dimensional semi-parametric graphical models” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Nov 10 | Jennifer Sinnott | Ohio State Univ. | "Kernel Machine Regression Methods in Risk Prediction" - ABSTRACT |
| Tuesday Nov 15 | Shahin Tavakoli | Univ. of Cambridge, UK | "Spatial modeling of Object Data: Analysing dialectal sound changes across the UK" - ABSTRACT |
| Wednesday Nov 16 *MSB 2112 |
Sanjay Chaudhuri | National Univ. Singapore | "Hamiltonian Monte Carlo In Bayesian Empirical Likelihood Computation" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Nov 17 |
Shuheng Zhou |
Univ. Michigan |
"Computational and statistical convergence for graph estimation: Just Relax" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Dec 1 |
Johannes Lederer |
Univ. Washington |
"Graphical Models for Discrete and Continuous Data" - ABSTRACT |