MSCS Statistics and Data Science Seminar

Statistics and Data Science Seminar - Spring 2014

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

Date	Speaker	Title
January 15
January 22	Shuwen Lou University of Washington	Brownian Motion with Varying Dimension
January 29	Prof. Kunpeng Zhang UIC	A Probabilistic Graphical Model for Brand Reputation Assessment in Social Networks
February 5
February 12	Prof. Yazhen Wang University of Wisconsin-Madison	Quantum Computation and Statistics
February 19
February 26
March 5
March 12	Prof. Annie Qu UIUC	Personalized treatment for longitudinal data
March 19	Dr. Hongwen Guo ETS	Predicting Right Score Distributions from Data Collected under Formula Score Instructions
March 26	No seminar	Spring Break
April 2	Prof. Bikas Sinha Indian Institute of Statistics	Estimation of the Number of Non-identifiable Species
April 9	Paul Livermore Auer University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee	Statistical issues with drawing associations between rare genetic variants and common human diseases.
April 16	Prof. Ming-Hung (Jason) Kao Arizona State University	Recent developments in optimal experimental designs for functional MRI
April 23
April 30	Prof. Dacheng Xiu University of Chicago	Econometric analysis of multivariate realised QML: estimation of the covariation of equity prices under asynchronous trading