MSCS Graduate Statistics Seminar

Graduate Statistics Seminar - Fall 2013

Usually meets Wednesday at 3:00 pm in SEO 612.

Date	Speaker	Title
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 24 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Prof. Jing Wang UIC	Smoothing techniques in statistics: an introduction
September 25
October 1 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Mr. Ting Yuan UIC	A coordinate descent algorithm for sparse positive definite matrix estimation, Part 1
October 2
October 8 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Mr. Ting Yuan UIC	A coordinate descent algorithm for sparse positive definite matrix estimation, Part 2
October 9
October 15 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Mr. Hsin-Hsiung Huang UIC	Global Comparison of Multiple-segmented Viruses in 12-dimensional Genome Space, Part 1
October 16
October 22 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Mr. Hsin-Hsiung Huang UIC	Global Comparison of Multiple-segmented Viruses in 12-dimensional Genome Space, Part 2
October 23
October 29 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Ms. Zhifan Zhang UIC	Portfolio Choice with General Pricing Kernel: An Application of a Generalized Neyman-Pearson Lemma
October 30
November 5 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Mr. Yan Sun UIC	The Blinded Independent Central Review in Oncology Clinical Trials
November 6
November 12 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Ms. Ella Revzin UIC	Introduction to polynomial splines
November 13
November 19 (3:30 pm; SEO 1227)	Ms. Ella Revzin UIC	Bootstrap Confidence Bands for Regression Curves Using Polynomial Splines
November 20
November 27
December 4