For the current seminar series (Fall 2019), please visit the main STA 290 Seminar page.
SPRING 2018:
Winter Seminar Instructor: Prof. Can Le
Location: MSB 1147, Colloquium Room. Held on Thursdays at 4:10pm (unless otherwise stated). The first seminar of Spring 2018 will be held on April 5th.
Students who wish to register for STA 290 credit (1 unit; 2 units with instructor's permission) may use CRN 80212. For the requirement for the obtaining 2 credits for STA 290 please contact Prof. Le.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
| Thursday April 5th | Nathaniel Stevens | UC San Francisco | "Detecting Change in Dynamic Networks" - ABSTRACT |
| Tuesday April 10th | Johannes Heiny | University of Aarhus, Denmark |
“The spectrum of high-dimensional sample correlation matrices” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 12th | Jingwen Zhang | Communications, UC Davis | “An online experimental approach to study networked social influence in offline health behaviors” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 19th | Valentin Patilea | ENSAI, France | “Conditional moment restriction models with incomplete data” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday April 26th | Yun Song | UC Berkeley |
BERKELEY-DAVIS JOINT COLLOQUIUM "Ribosomes, traffc jams, and phase transitions" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 3rd | Thomas Nichols | Oxford Big Data Inst (UK) |
Pre-Conference Keynote Lecture: "A Journey Into Neuroimaging Statistics" - ABSTRACT |
| Tuesday, May 8th (4:10pm, MSB 1147) | Rachel Ward | University of Texas, Austin |
2018 MATH/STATS COLLOQUIUM "Learning the LEarning Rate in Gradient Descent" - ABSTRACT (Links to Math Dept page) |
| Wednesday May 9th (2:10pm, MSB 1147) | David Schwab | Dept Biology and Physics, City University of New York | “Perspectives from physics on learning and inference” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 10th | Dmitri Krioukov | Northeastern University | "Exchangeability and projectivity in sparse random graphs" - ABSTRACT |
| Monday May 14th (4:10pm, MSB 1143) | Sanjay Chaudhuri | National University of Singapore | "Covariance based Moment Equations for Improved Variance Component Estimation" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 17th | Michal Kosinski | Stanford University | "Big Data Assessment: measuring psychological traits using digital footprints" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday May 24th | Raissa D'Souza | Computer Science, UC Davis | “Explosive Percolation on Complex Networks” - ABSTRACT |
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Thursday May 31st - CANCELLED |
Jure Leskovec | Stanford University | Seminar cancelled |
WINTER 2018:
Winter 2018 Seminar Instructor: Prof. Xiaodong Li
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
| Thursday Jan 11th | Shiqian Ma | Mathematics, UC Davis | "Nonconvex ADMM and its applications" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Jan 18th | Zhou Yu | Computer Science, UC Davis |
“Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems” - ABSTRACT LOCATION MSB 2112 |
| Thursday Jan 25th | Phyllis Wan | Columbia University |
"Modeling Social Networks using Linear Preferential Attachment" - ABSTRACT LOCATION MSB 2112 |
| Monday Jan 29th, 2:10pm | Min Xu | University of Pennsylvania | Optimal Rates for Community Estimation in the Weighted Stochastic Block Model - ABSTRACT |
| Wednesday Jan 31st, 1:10pm | Krishnakumar Balasubramanian | Statlab (ORFE), Princeton University | "Parametric and Nonparametric Models for Higher-order Interactions" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Feb 1st | Xinran Li | Harvard University | "Randomization Inference for Peer Effects" - ABSTRACT |
| Monday, Feb 5th, 2:10pm | Shizhe Chen | Columbia University | "Learning the Connectivity of Large Sets of Neurons" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Feb 8th | Fang Han | Statistics, Univ. Washington | "Three New Concentration Inequalities for Time Series Data" - ABSTRACT |
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Thursday Feb 15th |
Guangliang Chen | Mathematics/Statistics, San Jose State Univ. | "A Unified Scalable Spectral Clustering Framework Based on Efficient Sparse Matrix Operations" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Feb 22nd | Tengyu Ma | Facebook, Computer Sci/Statistics, Stanford Univ. | "Algorithmic Regularization in Over-parameterized Matrix Recovery and Neural Networks with Quadratic Activations" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Mar 1st | Kyunghee Han | Post-doctoral Scholar, Statistics, UC Davis | "Errors-in-variables problem in nonparametric additive models" - ABSTRACT |
| Monday Mar 5th, 2:10pm | Monika Bhattacharjee | Informatics Institute, University of Florida | "Change point estimation in dynamic stochastic block model" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Mar 8th | Zhenhua Lin | Post-doctoral Scholar,Statistics, UC Davis | "Mixture inner product spaces and their application to functional data analysis" - ABSTRACT |
FALL 2017:
Fall 2017 Seminar Instructor: Prof. Bala Rajaratnam
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title / Abstract |
| Thursday Oct 5th | Jane-Ling Wang | Statistics, UC Davis | “A Bridge between High-dimensional and Functional Data: Application to Functional Cox model” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Oct 12th | José E. Chacón | Universidad de Extremadura, Spain |
“Mixture model modal clustering” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Oct 19th | Luke Bornn | Sacramento Kings & Simon Fraser University | “From Pixels to Points: Using Tracking Data to Measure Performance in Professional Sports” - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Oct 26th | Miles Lopes | Statistics, UC Davis | "Two New Bootstrap Methods for High-Dimensional and Large-Scale Data" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Nov 2nd | Fushing Hsieh | Statistics, UC Davis | "Graphic displays of MLB pitching mechanics and its life-history evolution" - ABSTRACT |
| Thursday Nov 9th | Hans Müller | Statistics, UC Davis | "Fréchet Regression" - ABSTRACT |
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Monday Nov 13th 11:00am |
Aaditya Ramdas | Statistics & EECS, UC Berkeley | "Interactive algorithms for multiple hypothesis testing" - ABSTRACT |
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Tuesday Nov 14th 3:00pm |
Eric Fox | US EPA Western Ecology Division | "Comparing Spatial Regression to Random Forsts for Large Environmental Data Sets" - ABSTRACT |
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Wednesday Nov 15th 11:00am |
Brenda Betancourt | Duke University | "Microclustering Models for Record Linkage Tasks" - ABSTRACT |
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Thursday Nov 16th 4:00pm |
Ying Zhu | Dept of Economics, Social Science Data Analytics Initiative, Michigan State University | "High Dimensional Inference: Semiparametrics, Counterfactuals, and Heterogeneity" - ABSTRACT |
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Friday Nov 17th 10:30am |
Guillaume Basse | Statistics, Harvard University | "Model-assisted design of experiments in the presence of network correlated outcomes" - ABSTRACT |
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Monday Nov 20th 10:30am |
Linbo Wang | Biostatistics, Harvard University | "Causal Inference with Unmeasured Confounding: an Instrumental Variable Approach" - ABSTRACT |