MSCS Statistics and Data Science Seminar

Statistics and Data Science Seminar - Spring 2016

Usually meets Wednesday at 4:00 pm in SEO 636.

Date	Speaker	Title
January 13
January 20	Jie Yang University of Illinois at Chicago	Biomedical Big Data and Permanental Classification Approach
January 27	Ryan Martin UIC	Optimal Bayesian posterior concentration rates with empirical priors
February 3	Xiaoqin Guo Purdue University	Einstein relation and steady states for the random conductance model
February 10
February 17	Igor Cialenco IIT	Statistical Inference for Stochastic PDEs
February 24	Troy Hernandez Sears Holdings Co.	Statisticians come in from the cold: BigQuery, R, and Shiny
March 2	Donald Hedeker University of Chicago	Modeling between- and within-subject variances using mixed-effects location scale models for intensive longitudinal data
March 9	Samy Tindel Purdue University	Noisy differential equations with power type coefficients
March 16	Rich Bu Verisk Analytics	TBA
March 23	No seminar	Spring Break
March 30	Jyotirmoy Sarkar IUPUI	Symmetric Random Walks on Tetrahedra and Octahedra
April 6	Hsin-Hsiung Huang University of Central Florida	An Affine-Invariant Bayesian Cluster Process with Split-Merge Gibbs Sampler
April 13
April 20	Liang Hong Robert Morris University	A flexible Bayesian nonparametric model for predicting future insurance claims
April 27	Stat faculty and students UIC	Panel Discussion