MSCS Statistics and Data Science Seminar

Statistics and Data Science Seminar - Fall 2014

Usually meets Wednesday at 4:00 pm in SEO 636.

Date	Speaker	Title
August 13 (11:00 am; SEO 612)	Abhyuday Mandal University of Georgia	Small area estimation with uncertain random effects
August 27	Statistics Faculty	Organizational Meeting
September 3	Keli Liu Stanford University	Stat Wars Episode VI: Return of the Fiducialist
September 10
September 17	Bikas Sinha Indian Statistical Institute	Estimating the size of a population comprising of individuals with indirect accessibility
September 24	Jennifer Pajda-Delao UIC	Brownian motion on manifolds
October 1	Ruoting Gong IIT	Small-time asymptotics and expansions of option prices under Lévy-based models
October 8	Stat Grad Students UIC	Mock Oral Exam
October 15	Mengyu Xu University of Chicago	L2 asymptotics for high-dimensional data
October 22	Wei Zheng IUPUI	Universally optimal designs for two interference models
October 29	V. Devanarayan AbbVie	Some important statistical considerations in biomarker discovery from high-dimensional data
November 5	Sonja Petrovic IIT	Random graphs and networks: estimation and modeling challenges
November 12	Xianggui Qu Oakland University	Optimal Plate Designs in High Throughput Screening Experiments
November 19	Raymond Mess / Nick Syring UIC	Double empirical Bayes for high-dimensional inference / On Bayesian inference without a model
November 26
December 3	Dr. Devon Lin Queens University	Computer Experiment with Qualitative and Quantitative Factors