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

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Seminar Series

The Department of Statistics Seminar Series is open to the public during the academic year and takes place on select Thursdays from 4-5 p.m. in 6011 Donald Bren Hall (unless noted). For additional information, please contact Seminar Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Stieler at lstieler@uci.edu or (949) 824-3806.

Past Statistics Seminar Series:
2021-22 • 2020-21 • 2019-20 • 2018-19 • 2017-18 • 2016-17 • 2015-16 • 2014-15 •
2013-14 • 2012-13 • 2011-12 • 2010-11


Winter 2023

January 26
TBA

February 2
Edray Herber Goins
Professor of Math and Statistics, Pomona College
Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME): Reflections on a Research Learning Community

February 9
Peyman Kassani
Senior Research Scientist, CHOC Research Institute
Error-controlled Variable Selections in Imaging and Genomics Studies

February 16
TBA

February 23
TBA

March 2
Ronghui (Lily) Xu
Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, UCSD
Doubly Robust Estimation for Time-to-event Outcomes

March 9
Stephen Mandt
Associate Professor, Computer Science, UC Irvine

March 16
Baolin Wu
Professor of Biostatistics, UC Irvine
Statistical Modeling and Inference in GWAS Summary Data-based Mendelian Randomization Analysis


Fall 2022

September 22
Dan Gillen
Department Chair

September 29
Jane-Ling Wang
UC Davis
Testing Homogeneity for Independent Functional Data: The Trouble with Sparse Functional Data

October 6
Yifei Sun
Columbia
Dynamic Risk Prediction Triggered by Intermediate Events Using Survival Tree Ensembles

October 13
Cory Zigler
UT Austin
Weather2vec: Representation Learning for Causal Inference with Non-Local Confounding in Air Pollution and Climate Studies

October 20
Naisyin Wang
Michigan
Goodness of Fit Tests for Differentially-Private Frequency Tables

October 27
Xiaotong Shen
Minnesota
Data Perturbation
Distinguished Speaker

November 3
Peng Ding
Berkeley
Covariate Adjustment in Multi-armed, Possibly Factorial Experiments

November 10
Zhengling Qi
George Washington U
Reinforcement Learning under Unmeasured Confounding

November 17
Stefan Wager
Stanford
Learning from a Biased Sample

December 1 – Seminar Cancelled
Edray Herber Goins
Pomona College
Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience (PRiME): Reflections on a Research Learning Community

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