The Department of Statistics Seminar Series takes place on select Thursday from 4-5 p.m. during the academic year. The public may join the seminars via Zoom at the links below. For additional information, please contact Seminar Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Stieler at lstieler@uci.edu or (949) 824-3806.
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Past Statistics Seminar Series:
2020-21 • 2019-20 • 2018-19 • 2017-18 • 2016-17 • 2015-16 • 2014-15 •
2013-14 • 2012-13 • 2011-12 • 2010-11
Fall 2021
September 30
Dan Gillen
Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine
State of the UCI Statistics Department
October 7
Elizabeth Read
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Irvine
Bridging Stochastic Mechanistic Modeling and Statistical Inference to Shed Light on Gene Regulation
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October 14
Sastry Pantula
Dean, College of Natural Sciences, CSU San Bernardino
Diversity and Belonging in Statistics Profession
Diversity and Inclusion Talk
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October 21
Peter Mueller
Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, UT Austin
Single Arm Trials with a Synthetic Control Arm Built from RWD
Distinguished Seminar
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October 28
Erick Matsen
Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Bayesian Phylogenetics via Systematic Search and Gradient Ascent
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November 4
Louis Ehwerhemuepha
Data Scientist, Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Applied Statistical and Machine Learning Challenges in Pediatric Research at CHOC Children’s Health
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November 18
Marina Vannucci
Noah Harding Professor of Statistics, Rice University
Bayesian Models for Microbiome Data with Variable Selection
Distinguished Seminar
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December 2
Karen McKinnon
Assistant Professor of Statistics, UCLA
The “Certain Uncertainty” of Internal Variability, with Implications for Western US Water resources
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December 9
Jing Zhang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Irvine
Effective Representation Learning to Dissect the Gene Regulatory Grammar
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