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
Winter 2022
January 20
Erick Matsen
Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Towards Bayesian Phylogenetics via Systematic Search and Gradient Ascent
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January 27
Siddhartha Chib
Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis
Moment-Based Semiparametric Bayesian Causal Inference
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February 3
Sha Cao
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Health Data Sciences, Indiana University
Statistical Models for Spatial Transcriptomics Data to Study Cell-cell interactions
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February 10
Jeremy Taylor
Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Abstract: Pending
February 17
Miaoyan Wang
Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nonparametric Tensor Completion via Sign Series
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February 24
Wenxin Zhou
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCSD
Robust Estimation and Inference for Joint Quantile and Expected Shortfall Regression
March 3
Ying Yuan
Bettyann Asche Murray Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Elastic Priors to Dynamically Borrow Information from Historical Data in Clinical Trials
March 10
Jairo Fúquene Patiño
Assistant Professor, Statistics, UC Davis
Bayesian Mixture Models, Non-local Prior Formulations and MCMC Algorithms
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
Dabao Zhang
Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Defining Coefficients of Determination Beyond Linear Regression
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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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