Department of Statistics - Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

Department of Statistics - Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

Seminar Series 2018-2019

Unless noted otherwise, all seminars take place in Donald Bren Hall sixth floor conference room (DBH 6011) from 4 to 5 p.m.

For additional information, please contact Seminar Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Stieler at lstieler@uci.edu or (949) 824-3806.

Past Statistics Seminar Series:

2017-18 • 2016-17 • 2015-16 • 2014-15 •
2013-14 • 2012-13 • 2011-12 • 2010-11

Spring 2019

April 11
Vladimir Minin
UC Irvine
“Statistical Challenges and Opportunities in Stochastic Epidemic Modeling”
April 17 (Wednesday)
Subhashis Ghosal
NCSU
“Coverage of Credible Intervals for Monotone Regression”
April 25
Xin Tong
USC
“Neyman-Pearson Classification”
May 2
Lorin Crawford
Brown University
“A Statistical Pipeline for Feature Selection and Association Mapping with 3D Shapes”
May 9
Jack Kalbfleisch
University of Michigan
“Randomization, Rerandomization and Matching in Clinical Trials”
Obsidian Security Seminar
May 16
Stephan Mandt
UCI
“Neural Probabilistic Modeling and Variational Inference”
May 30
Tian Zheng
Columbia University
“Markov-Modulated Hawkes Processes for Sporadic and Bursty Event”
Obsidian Security Seminar
June 6
Julia Palacios
Stanford
“Tajima Coalescent”

Winter 2019

January 10
Geoff Schiebinger
MIT and Harvard (joint appts.)
January 17
Antonio Linero
Florida State University
Tuesday, January 22
Jianqing Fan
Princeton University
“Farming High-dimensional Significant and Important Variables”
* 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Distinguished Lecture
January 24
James Johndrow
Stanford University
January 31
Fei Gao
University of Washington
February 7
Xueying Tang
Columbia University
February 14
Andee Kaplan
Duke University
February 21
Yang Feng
Columbia University
March 7
Veronica Barrocal
University of Michigan

Fall 2018

September 27
Karen Messer
University of California San Diego
“Post-selection Inference with Missing Data and Multiple Imputation”
*Seminar will be held in DBH 2011
October 4
Ronghui Xu
University of California San Diego
“Prediction and Inference under Competing Risks in High Dimension – An EHR Demonstration Project for Prostate Cancer”
October 11
Xihong Lin
Harvard University
“Scalable Statistical Inference for Analysis of Massive Health Data: Challenges and Opportunities”
October 18
Rob Weiss
University of California Los Angeles
“Meta-Analysis and Hierarchical Models in Prior Construction”
October 25
Ying Nian Wu
University of California Los Angeles
“Cooperative Learning of Deep Energy-based Model and Latent Variable Model via MCMC Teaching”
November 1
Bin Nan
University of California, Irvine
“Conditional Modeling of Longitudinal Data with Terminal Event”
November 8
Tailen Hsing
University of Michigan
“Modeling and Inference of Local Stationarity”
November 15
Yehua Li
University of California Riverside
“Spatially Dependent Functional Data: Covariance Estimation, Principal Component Analysis, and Kriging”
*Seminar will be held in DBH 2011