2020 Seminars

Spring 2020 Seminars

An Online Capstone Activity 
Date: Fri April, 24, 2020
Speaker: Beth Chance
Affiliation: Department of Statistics ​- California Polytechnic State University

Drug discovery in neglected parasites: advances and limitations 
Date: Fri March, 6, 2020
Speaker: Mostafa Zamanian
Affiliation: Department of Pathobiological Sciences – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Conditional Functional Graphical Models 
Date: Fri February, 14, 2020
Speaker: Kuang Yao Lee
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science - Temple University

Estimation and Inference Methods in Generalized Additive Models with Shape and Order Constraints 
Date: Fri January, 31, 2020
Speaker: Mary Meyer
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - Colorado State University

Fall 2020 Seminars

The shapes of an epidemic: using Functional Data Analysis to characterize COVID-19 in Italy
Date: Friday, November, 20, 2020
Speaker: Marzia Cremona
Affiliation: Department of Operations and Decision Systems – Université Laval

Differentially Private Inference Via Noisy Optimization 
Date: Friday, November, 13, 2020
Speaker: Marco Avella Medina
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – Columbia University

Robust Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic in US Counties 
Date: Friday, November, 6, 2020
Speaker: Mengyang Gu 
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Applied Probability – University of California Santa Barbara

Unlinked Monotone Regression 
Date: Friday, October, 30, 2020
Speaker: Charles Doss
Affiliation: School of Statistics – University of Minnesota

Communicating Science in the Modern Era of Distractions 
Date: Friday, October, 23, 2020
Speaker: Vince Tedjasaputra
Affiliation: AAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow – National Science Foundation

A Nearest-Neighbor Based Nonparametric Test for Viral Remodeling in Heterogeneous Single-Cell Data 
Date: Friday, October, 16, 2020
Speaker: Gourab Mukherhjee
Affiliation: Department of Data Sciences and Operations – University of Southern California

Joint Bayesian analysis of multiple response-types using the hierarchical generalized transformation model 
Date: Friday, October, 9, 2020
Speaker: Jonathan Bradley
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – Florida State University