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

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

Seminar Series

For the Spring 2020 Seminar Series, all talks will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursdays from April 9-May 7 and 4 p.m. on Tuesdays from May 12-June 2 live on Zoom.

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

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

Spring 2020

April 9
Annie Qu
UC Irvine
“Integrating Multi-source Block-wise Missing Data in Model Selection”
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April 16
Fabrizio Ruggeri
Italian National Research Council in Milano
“New Classes of Priors Based on Stochastic Orders: Theory and Applications in Reliability”
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April 23
Krishna Balasubramanian
UC Davis
“Normal Approximations for Stochastic Iterative Estimators (and Martingales)”
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April 30
Jessica Utts
UC Irvine
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May 7
Mengyang Gu
UC Santa Barbara
“Orthogonality Meets Marginalization: Fast and Flexible Gaussian Processes for Large Correlated Data”
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May 12
Mine Dogucu
UC Irvine
“Strategies and Tools for Fair and Efficient Grading”
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May 19
Aurore Delaigle
University of Melbourne
“Estimating a Covariance Function from Fragments of Functional Data”
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May 26
Wes Johnson
UC Irvine
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June 2
Xiwei Tang
University of Virginia
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Fall 2019

October 3
Veronica Berrocal
UCI
“Bayesian Spatio-temporal Disaggregation of Survey-based Estimates of Areal Proportions Accounting for Survey Design Effect”
October 10
Sonia Petrone
Bocconi University, Milan
“On a Quasi-Bayes Procedure for Recursive Learning in Mixture Models”
October 17
Shiwei Lan
Arizona State University
“Learning Temporal Evolution of Spatial Dependence”
October 31
Jeff Rouder
UCI
“Who Does That? Using Order-Restricted Inference to Understand Qualitative and Quantitative Individual Differences in Cognition”
November 7
Alan Gelfand
Duke University
“Bayesian Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns”
November 14
Surya Tokdar
Duke University
“Joint Quantile Regression under Spatial Dependency”
November 19
Marina Meila
University of Washington
“Unsupervised Validation for Unsupervised Learning ”
November 21
Peter Mueller
University of Texas, Austin
“Bayesian Categorical Matrix Factorization via Double Feature Allocation”
OBSIDIAN SECURITY LECTURE
December 5
Heping Zhang
Yale University
“Back to the Basics: Residuals and Diagnostics for Generalized Linear Models”