The Department of Statistics Seminar Speaker Archives from 2010-2014.

2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010

Abstract Title, Link to Abstract, Speaker and Seminar Date

Massive Data, Monumental Challenges
Robert Brunner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 21, 2010

A self-normalized approach to statistical inference for time series
Xiaofeng Shao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 28, 2010

Dimension reduction by groups
Li Lexin, North Carolina State University
Feb 4, 2010

Some Statistical Issues in Computerized Adaptive Testing --A Close Look at Graduate Record Examination
Huahua Chang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Feb 11, 2010

Some Results on the Complementary Approach to Fractional Factorial Design
Michael Zhu, Purdue University
Feb 18, 2010

Robust Model-free Multiclass Probability Estimation
Yichao Wu, North Carolina State University
Feb 25, 2010

The Restricted Likelihood (REML) in Time Series Econometrics: Estimation and Likelihood based Inference in Autoregressive Models, Predictive Regressions, Dynamic Panel Data and Co-integrated Sytems
Rohit Deo, New York University
Mar 12, 2010

High Dimensional Inverse Covariance Matrix Estimation
Ming Yuan, Georgia Tech
Mar 18, 2010

Simultaneous confidence bands for nonparametric regression with functional data
David Degras, University of Chicago
Apr 8, 2010

Nonparametric model validations for hidden markov models with applications in financial econometrics
Zhibiao Zhao, Penn State University
Apr 15, 2010

Detection of copy number variations using high-throughput genetic data
Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania
Apr 22, 2010

Imaging the Earth's deep interior: a statistical perspective
Ping Ma, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Sep 2, 2010

A Bayesian Approach for Structured Sparsity with Application to Market Segmentation
Feng Liang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Sep 9, 2010

Interdisciplinary Neuroimaging and Its Statistical Data Analysis
Michelle Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Sep 16, 2010

Designs for Computer Experiments, Cross-validation and Stochastic Optimization
Zhiguang "Peter" Qian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sep 23, 2010 

Reduced rank models for spatially correlated functional data
Lan Zhou, Texas A&M University
Sep 30, 2010

Bayesian clinical trials in action
J. Jack Lee, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Oct 7, 2010

Collecting coupons: is there still life in an old problem?
Bob Smythe, Oregon State University
Oct 14, 2010

Mixtures, modes, clusters, and soft inference in high dimensions
Bruce Lindsay, Penn State
Oct 21, 2010

Bootstrap for U-statistics of dependent data
Martin Wendler, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
Oct 28, 2010

Estimation of the mean and the principal components of spatially distributed functional data
Piotr Kokoszka, Utah State university
Nov 4, 2010

Automation and Medical Community Infrastructure Support for 3D volume reconstruction from microscope imagery
Peter Bajcsy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nov 11, 2010

Geometry and topology in statistical Inference
Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
Nov 18, 2010

A unified approach to model selection and sparse recovery using regularized least squares
Jinchi Lv, University of Southern California
Dec 2, 2010

 

2011

Statistical and computational challenges for metagenomics data analysis
Hongmei Jiang, Northwestern University
Jan 20, 2011

Network based comparison of temporal gene expression patterns
Sheng Zhong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 27, 2011

From Fourier to Forensics
Michael Weissman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Feb 3, 2011

Functional Linear Model with Zero-value Coefficient Function at Sub-regions
Jianhui Zhou, University of Virginia
Feb 10, 2011

Estimation of Renyi and Shannon Differential Entropy and Information via Euclidean Graph Optimization
Sergey Kirshner, Purdue University
Feb 17, 2011 

Spectral analysis of network connectivity for children's narrative comprehension
Xiaodong Lin, Rutgers University
Feb 24, 2011

A Brief History of Spatial Analysis
Anil Bera, Dept. of Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mar 3, 2011

Model Influence and Selection for Continuous Social Behavior Variables
Liping Tong, Loyola University Chicago
Mar 10, 2011 

Kernel Estimation for Stationary Time Series with an Online Learning Approach
Yinxiao Huang Univ. of Chicago
Mar 15, 2011

Constrained Parameter and Statistical Learning Models for Gene/Biomarker Selection and Prediction
Ming Tan, Univ. of Maryland
Mar 17, 2011

High Dimensional Time Series Modeling
Song Song, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Mar 18, 2011

Asymptotics for Current Status Data Under Varying Observation Time Sparsity
Runlong Tang, Univ. of Michigan
Mar 29, 2011 

GEE Analysis of Clustered Binary Data with Diverging Number of Parameters
Lan Wang, University Minnesota
Apr 1, 2011

Optimal Weight Choice for Frequentist Model Average Estimators
Hua Liang, University of Rochester
Apr 7, 2011 

Genetics Studies of Multivariate Traits
Heping Zhang, Yale University
Apr 14, 2011

Generalized likelihood ratio test for nonstationary time series
Zhou Zhou, University of Toronto
Apr 21, 2011 

Problems in Conditional Sampling
Ian Dinwoodie, Portland State University
Apr 28, 2011

I don't know where I'm gonna go when the volcano blows
Jim Berger, Duke University
May 5, 2011

Using the criterion-predictor factor model to compute the probability of detecting prediction bias with ordinary least squares regression
Steven Culpepper, University of Colorado Denver
Jun 13, 2011

Contribution of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in statistics and cryptology: a long story short
Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute
Aug 25, 2011

Monte Carlo error estimation for MCMC and Adaptive MCMC
Yves Atchade, University of Michigan
Aug 30, 2011

Two-component Mixture Cure Rate Model with Spline Estimated Nonparametric Components
Pang Du, Virginia Tech
Sep 8, 2011

Censoring and Penalization for Regression Quantiles
Stanislav Volgushev, Bochum University
Sep 15, 2011

Divide and Conquer: Some Strategies for Regional Adaptive MCMC
Radu Craiu, University of Toronto
Sep 22, 2011

Simultaneous supervised clustering and feature selection
Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota
Sep 29, 2011

Quickest Changepoint Detection: State-of-the-Art
Alexander Tartakovsky, University of Southern California
Oct 6, 2011

Optimal Sparse Segment Identification with Applications in Copy Number Variation Analysis
Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
Oct 13, 2011

Latent Space Model for Aggregated Relational Data
ian Zheng, Columbia University
Oct 20, 2011 

Variable-selection Ensembles
Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo
Oct 27, 2011

Confidence Distribution, the Frequentist Distribution Estimator of a Parameter
Minge Xie, Rutgers University
Oct 28, 2011

Tractatus Elastico-Plasticus: Mechanical Models in Nonparametric Regression
Ivan Mizera, University of Alberta
Nov 4, 2011

Pathway-based Ovarian Cancer Survival Analysis
Sijian Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nov 10, 2011

Randomized Algorithms for Matrices and Data
Michael Mahoney, Stanford University
Nov 17, 2011 

A Shared Parameter Model for the Estimation of Longitudinal Concomitant Intervention Effects
Colin Wu, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Dec 1, 2011

 

2012

Reasoning about Interference Between Units
Jake Bowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 26, 2012

Modeling Network Data
Patrick J. Wolfe, University College London/Harvard University
Feb 2, 2012

Bayesian Clustering with Regression
Peter Mueller, University of Texas Austin
Feb 16, 2012

Problems arising from solving quantum problems on classical computers
David Ceperley, Universitry of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mar 1, 2012

Simultaneous Inference of Covariances
Han Xiao, Rutgers University
Mar 8, 2012

Data Mining & Analytics at Caterpillar
Craig Brabec, Analytics Division Manager at Caterpillar
Apr 3, 2012

Biological Network Inference from Genomics Data
Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
Apr 5, 2012

On the Computation of Autocovariances for Generalized Gegenbauer Processes
Tucker McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau
Apr 12, 2012

A General Theory of Concave Regularization for High Dimensional Sparse Estimation Problems
Tong Zhang, Rutgers
Apr 19, 2012

High Dimensional Statistical Learning with Bayesian Variable Selection
Wenxin Jiang, Northwestern University
Apr 26, 2012

Statistical Models and Methods for Spatial Data with Strong Local Dependence
Michael Stein, University of Chicago
Sep 6, 2012

High Dimensional Empirical Likelihood for Generalized Estimating Equations with Dependent Data
Song-Xi Chen, Iowa State University
Sep 20, 2012

Budget-Optimal Task-Allocation for Reliable Crowdsourcing Systems
Sewoong Oh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sep 27, 2012

A Discussion of Graphical Inference
Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University
Oct 4, 2012 

Bayesian Models for Next-Generation Sequencing Data on Histone Modifications
Yuan Ji, NorthShore University HealthSystem
Oct 11, 2012

Statistical methods for RNA-seq data
Wei Sun, University of North Carolina
Oct 18, 2012

Stochastic dynamics on networks. Emergence of collective behaviors
Lee DeVille, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nov 1, 2012

Statistical downscaling for Bivariate Data in Climate Projections
Xuming He, University of Michigan
Nov 15, 2012

 

2013

Probabilistic Methods for Efficient Search and Statistical Learning in Extremely High-Dimensional Data
Ping Li, Cornell University
Jan 17, 2013

Decentralized Sequential Change Detection
Georgios Fellouris, University of Southern California
Feb 19, 2013

Gene regulation network inference with joint sparse Gaussian graphical models
Hyonho Chun, Purdue University
Feb 28, 2013

Longitudinal Functional Regression Models with Structured Penalties
Jaroslaw (Jarek) Harezlak, Indiana University
Mar 14, 2013

Universally Optimal Crossover Designs under Subject Dropout
Wei Zheng, IUPUI
Mar 28, 2013

Functional Boxplots for Visualization of Complex Curve/Image Data and Paradigms for a 21st Century University
Marc G. Genton, KAUST
Mar 29, 2013

Learning nonlinear gene regulatory networks from perturbed steady-states
Wing Wong, Stanford University
Apr 2, 2013

Decoupled Shrinkage and Selection in linear models
Richard Hahn, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Apr 4, 2013

General Directional Regression
Yuexiao Dong, Temple University
Apr 11, 2013

Inferring Functional Interaction and Transition Patterns via Dynamic Bayesian Variable Partition Model
Jing Zhang, Yale University
Apr 18, 2013

Optimal Estimation of the Intensity Function of a Spatial Point Process
Yongtao Guan, University of Miami
Apr 25, 2013 

Smoothing spline analysis of variance models for electroencephalography data analysis
Nathaniel Helwig
Jun 6, 2013

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert space approach to Functional Regression for general exponential families
Carlos Valencia
Jun 7, 2013 

Penalized Likelihood Principal Components and Orthonormally-Constrained Optimization
Trevor Park
Jun 18, 2013

Asymptotically minimax empirical Bayes estimation of a sparse
Ryan Martin, University of Illinois, Chicago
Sep 26, 2013

Empirical and Sequential Empirical Copula Processes under Serial Dependence and Weak Smoothness Conditions
Stanislav Volgushev, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Oct 3, 2013

Sparse Principal Component Analysis: Optimal Rates and Adaptive Estimation
Yihong Wu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oct 10, 2013

Asymptotically Valid and Exact New Permutation Tests
Eun Yi Chung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Oct 17, 2013

Bernstein - von Mises Theorems for general functionals
Judith Rousseau, University Paris Dauphine & ENSAE-CREST
Oct 22, 2013

Sequential Adaptive Bayesian Learning for Inference and Optimization
John Geweke, University of Technology Sydney
Oct 24, 2013

Credibility of Confidence Sets in Nonstandard Econometric Problems
Andriy Norets, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oct 31, 2013

Model Building for Partially Time-Varying Coefficient Models
Ting Zhang, University of Iowa
Nov 7, 2013

Equivalent Kriging
Will Kleiber, University of Colorado at Boulder
Nov 21, 2013

Stability
Bin Yu, University of California Berkeley
Dec 2, 2013 

 

2014

Quantile secondary analysis for case-control studies with applications to GWAS data
Ying Wei, Columbia University
Feb 27, 2014

Effective dimension reduction for sparse functional data
Fang Yao, University of Toronto
Mar 6, 2014

Guided Clinical Research with Electronic Medical Records
Haoda Fu, Eli Lilly Company
Mar 13, 2014

The Bold Vision of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy: Directed Acyclic Graphs and Causal Discovery from Non-Independence Constraints
James Robins, Harvard University
Mar 18, 2014

A Discussion of Research Problems in Quantitative Risk Management of Variable Annuities Guaranteed Benefits
Runhuan Feng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Apr 17, 2014

Autoregressive Conditional Models for Interval-Valued Time Series Data
Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University
Apr 24, 2014

A Day in the Life of a Pharmaceutical Statistician
Serena Chan, Veriflow Systems
Sep 11, 2014

A Spatio-Temporal Point Process Model for Ambulance Demand
David Matteson, Cornell University
Sep 18, 2014

Scalable Model Selection for Logistic Regression
Xuming He, University of Michigan
Sep 23, 2014

Unified View of Portmanteau Tests for General Statistical Models
Masanobu Taniguchi, Waseda University in Tokyo
Sep 25, 2014

Parameter estimation for a partially observed Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with long-memory noise
Frederi Viens, Purdue University
Oct 2, 2014

Quantile-Based Spectral Analysis of Time Series
Tobias Kley, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Oct 3, 2014

Multilinear Models for Relational Tensor Data
Peter Hoff, University of Washington
Oct 16, 2014

Rate-Optimal Detection of Very Short Signal Segments
Ming Yuan, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Oct 23, 2014

Statistical Programming and R for Reproducible Research
James Balamuta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oct 24, 2014

Understanding the Behavior of Large Random Networks
Patrick Wolfe, UCL London
Oct 30, 2014

Asymptotic Properties of Functions of Order Statistics
Vasudevan Mangalam, UCSB
Nov 7, 2014

Combining Information from Stock and Option Prices: An Empirical Likelihood Approach
Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University
Nov 13, 2014

From Adaptive Testing to Adaptive Learning
Hua-Hua Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nov 13, 2014

L^2 Asymptotics for High-Dimensional Data
Mengyu Xu, University of Chicago
Nov 20, 2014

New methods for inferring species trees in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting
Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Nov 21, 2014

An L^2 Test Theory for Nonstationary Time Series
Wei Biao Wu, University of Chicago
Dec 2, 2014

Data Driven Astrophysics: A New Approach to Understanding our Universe
Robert Brunner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dec 5, 2014

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