MSCS Statistics and Data Science Seminar

Statistics and Data Science Seminar - Fall 2016

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

Date	Speaker	Title
August 24
August 31	Stat faculty and graduate students UIC	Organizational meeting
September 7	Andrey Sarantsev University of California, Santa Barbara	Competing Brownian particles
September 14	Bikas Sinha ISI	Coverage Probability and Exact Inference
September 21	Yan Chang Discover	Credit Risk Management of Non-secured Lending
September 28	Frederick Phoa Academia Sinica, Taiwan R.O.C.	Some Recent Developments on the Applications of Evolutionary Algorithm in the Statistical Optimization
October 5	George Karabatsos UIC	New Approaches to Fast Approximate Bayesian Nonparametric Inference
October 12	Tai Melcher University of Virginia	Small-time asymptotics of subRiemannian Hermite functions
October 19 (3:00 pm; SEO 636)	Dongxiao Zhu Wayne State University	Model-based approaches to learn partitions from data
October 19	Milan Stehlik Johannes Kepler University, Austria and University of Valparaiso, Chile	Recent advances in optimal design for correlated Processes
October 26	Lihui Zhao Northwestern University	Design and Analysis of Clinical Studies using Restricted Mean Survival Time
November 2	Mike Cranston UCI	Overlaps and Pathwise Localization in the Anderson Polymer Model
November 9	Sanjib Basu UIC	Bayesian Variable Selection in Complex Linear and Lifetime Models
November 16	Si Tang University of Chicago	Spatial SIR model and superprocesses
November 23
November 30 (4:00 pm; SEO 1227)	Ella Revzin Precima	Advanced Marketing Analytics: Data Science at Precima