Student Seminar Series
2018-19
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| Tue Jan 15, 1:00pm |
Haoran Li (PhD Candidate, Statistics, UC Davis) |
"High-Dimensional General Linear Hypothesis Tests via Spectral Shrinkage" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Jan 22, 1:00pm |
Lynna Chu (PhD Candidate, Biostatistics, UC Davis) |
" Asymptotically distribution-free change-point detection for multivariate and non-Euclidean data" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Jan 29, 1:00pm |
Lihua Lei (PhD Candidate, Statistics, UC Berkeley)
|
"Top-Down Hierarchical Clustering" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Feb 5, 1:00pm |
TBD
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TBD |
| Tue Feb 12, 1:00pm | TBD | TBD |
| Tue Feb 19, 1:00pm | TBD | TBD |
| Tue Feb 26, 1:00pm | TBD | TBD |
| Tue, Mar 5, 1:00pm | TBD | TBD |
| Tue, Mar 12, 1:00pm | TBD | TBD |
Refreshments will be served at each seminar. Seminars will be approximately 40 minutes long.
Organizers (Winter): Andrew Blandino
Organizers (Spring): TBD
PREVIOUS STUDENT SEMINARS:
2017-2018
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| Tue Oct 17, 4:00pm |
Hyeyeong Choe (Post-Doc, Environ Sci and Policy, UC Davis) |
"How statistics are used in ecological models and conservation planning" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Oct 31, 4:00pm |
Jilei Yang (PhD Student, Statistics, UC Davis) |
"Gaining interpretation for black-box predictive models" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Dec 5, 4:00pm |
Michelle Norris (Professor, Sacramento State University) |
TBD |
| Tue Jan 23, 2:00pm |
Cody Carroll (PhD Student, Statistics, UC Davis) |
"Warping for Multivariate Functional Data with Application to Longitudinal Growth Curves - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Feb 6, 2:00pm |
Franco Liang (PhD Student, Statistics, UC Davis) |
"Block-based Partitioning for Extreme Multi-label Classification" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Feb 13, 2:00pm |
Robert Bassett (PhD Student, Mathematics, UC Davis) |
Trendi-Splines: Density Estimation with Total Variation Penalized Maximum Likelihood Estimation - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Feb 27, 2:00pm |
Kirill Paramonov (PhD Student, Mathematics, UC Davis) |
Lift Estimator of Graphlet Count Statistic - ABSTRACT |
Refreshments will be served at each seminar. Seminars will be approximately 40 minutes long.
Organizers (Fall): Irene Kim, Ozan Sonmez and Clark Fitzgerald
Organizers (Winter): Andrew Blandino, Dmitriy Izyumin, and Benjamin Roycraft
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2016-2017
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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Wed Oct 5, 12:00pm |
Data Mining Team (PhD Candidates, Statistics, UC Davis) |
“Predicting Return Quantity for a Fashion Distributor via Gradient Boosting and Ensemble Learning” - ABSTRACT |
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Wed Oct 19, 12:00pm |
Rex Cheung (PhD Candidate, Statistics, UC Davis) |
“Detecting and Predicting Driving State with Driver Behavior Data” - ABSTRACT |
|
Wed Nov 2, 12:00pm |
Justin Wang (PhD Candidate, Statistics, UC Davis) |
"Techniques for nonlinear Dimension Reduction" - ABSTRACT |
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Wed Nov 16, 12:00pm |
Norm Matloff (Professor, Computer Science, UC Davis) |
"Statistical Issue in Recommender Systems" - ABSTRACT |
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Wed Nov 30, 12:00pm |
Ozan Sonmez (PhD Candidate, Statistics, UC Davis) |
“Detecting and dating structural breaks in functional data without dimension reduction” - ABSTRACT |
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Wed Feb 1, 12:00pm |
Mimi Tsuruga (Postdoc, Math, UC Davis) |
“What is Topological Data Analysis?” - ABSTRACT |
| Wed Feb 15, 12:00pm |
Julio Deride (PhD student, Math, UC Davis) |
“Statistical estimation problems under stochastic optimization perspective” - ABSTRACT |
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Wed Mar 1, 12:00pm |
Benjamin Roycraft (PhD student, Statistics, UC Davis) |
“A Statistical Approach using Bootstrap Estimation” - ABSTRACT |
| Wed Mar 15, 12:00pm | Hao Chen (Assistant Professor, Statistics, UC Davis) | “Change-point detection for locally dependent data” - ABSTRACT |
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| Wed April 12, 11:10am |
Miles Lopes (Assistant Professor, Statistics, UC Davis) |
“On the computation-accuracy tradeoff for majority-voting ensembles” - ABSTRACT |
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Wed April 19, 11:10am |
Matt Dowle (Data Scientist, Hacker at H20.ia, author of data.table in R) |
"Ask Me Anything" - ABSTRACT |
| Wed April 26, 11:10am |
Jonathan Helm (Post-Doc, Psychology, UC Davis) |
“Bayesian versus Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multitrait-Multimethod Confirmatory Factor Models” - ABSTRACT |
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Wed May 3, 11:10am |
Matthew Espe (Post-Doc, Data Science Initiative / Plant Sciences, UC Davis) |
“Bayesian modeling using Stan” - ABSTRACT |
| Wed May 10, 11:10am |
Clark Fitzgerald (PhD Student, Statistics, UC Davis) |
“Parallel Computing Through Code Analysis” - ABSTRACT |
| Wed May 17, 11:10am |
Sean Maceachern (Data Scientist, Monsanto) |
“Applied statistics and data science in Agriculture” - ABSTRACT |
| Wed May 24, 11:10am |
Irene Kim (PhD Student, Statistics, UC Davis) |
“Homology of simplicial complexes and convergence of Persistence Diagram as weighted point process” - ABSTRACT |