2020
Student Seminar: Yujie Chen
3:00–4:00 pm Via ZOOM
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUJIE CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Modeling Prothrombin Index for Liver Cirrhosis Patients and Its Relationship to the Survival Time”
Topics
Student Seminar: Mengxiong Dong
1:00–2:00 pm Via ZOOM
Master’s Thesis Presentation
MENGXIONG DONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“An Empirical Study on Kernel Conditional Quantile Estimation Method for Stationary Processes”
Student Seminar: Tae Hyun Kim
11:00 am–12:30 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
TAE HYUN KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Methods for Transcriptome Data”
Student Seminar: Ran Dai
2:00–3:30 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
RAN DAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical and Algorithmic Guarantees for High Dimensional Single Index Model”
Student Seminar: Haoyang Liu
2:00–3:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
HAOYANG LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Algorithmic and Statistical Optimality for High-Dimensional Data”
Student Seminar: Nathan Gill
2:00–3:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
NATHAN GILL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Mixed-Effect Location-Scale Regression Models”
Statistics Colloquium: Joshua Weinstein
4:00–5:00 pm Via ZOOM
JOSHUA WEINSTEIN, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
‘Spatio-genetic Imaging with DNA Microscopy”
MINI-SEMINARS DAY 2
4:00–5:00 pm ZOOM links provided via EMAIL
MINI-SEMINARS DAY 2
Moderators: ABBY STEVENS and DANIEL XIANG
4:00 - 4:15 pm: YI WANG, “Literature Review on Distribution-Free Conditional Predictive Inference”
4:15 - 4:30 pm: YI WEI, “A New Modeling Framework for Multi-Trait Mapping of Binary and Quantitative Phenotypes”
4:30 - 4:45 pm: DONGYUE XIE, “Multiple Condition Diffferential Expression Analysis for RNAseq Data”
4:45 - 5:00 pm: LIJIA ZHOU, “Uniform Convergence of Low Norm Interpolators”
MINI-SEMINARS DAY 1
4:00–5:00 pm ZOOM links provided via EMAIL
MINI-SEMINARS DAY 1
Moderators: ABBY STEVENS and DANIEL XIANG
4:00 - 4:15 pm: CHIH-HSUAN WU, “Mixture Poisson Generalized Linear Mixed Model for Cell Type-Specific Methylation Analyhsis”
4:15 - 4:30 pm: HUANLIN ZHOU, “Some Statistical Issues About Large-Scale Testing for Gene-Gene Interaction”
4:30 - 4:45 pm: WANRONG ZHU, “Sharp High-Probability Bounds for SGD on Linear Model COnsidering Heavy-Tailed Noise”
4:45 - 5:00 pm: HAI TRAN-BACH: Mehler’s Formula, Branching Processers and Compositional Kernels of Deep Neural Networks”
5:00 - 5:15 pm: ZEHAO NIU, “Tensor Methods Using Stochastic Approximation of Score Functions for Gaussian Processes”
Student Seminar: Yongrui Chen
10:30 am–12:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
YONGRUI CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High-Frequency Functional Inference of Dynamic Data in Time and Frequency Domains”