The seminar meets on Thursdays, from 1:15pm to 2:40pm, in WH-100E.
The seminar is also offered as MATH 567, Seminar in Statistics, Section 01.
Organizer: Sanjeena Dang

Previous semesters:

• Fall 2016
• Summer 2016
• Spring 2016
• Fall 2015
• Spring 2015
• Fall 2014
• Prior to Fall 2014

See also: Data Science Seminar and the Capstone Seminar.

• January 19
  Organizational meeting. Starts at 1:30 pm.

• January 26
  Speaker: Qiqing Yu
  Topic: The Marginal Distribution Approach for Testing Independence and Goodness-of-Fit in Linear Models
  Abstract

• February 2
  Speaker: Anton Schick
  Topic: Weighted least squares estimation with missing responses: An empirical likelihood approach
  Abstract

• February 9
  Speaker: Grigory Sokolov
  Topic:Change-point detection in sensor networks
  Abstract

• February 16
  Speaker: Ganggang Xu
  Topic:TBD
  Abstract

• February 23
  capstone seminar

• March 2
  capstone seminar

• March 9
  Speaker: Seth Spain (School of Management, Binghamton University)
  Topic: Gauss is not mocked: Distributions of Individual Job Performance
  Abstract

• March 16
  capstone seminar

• March 23
  Speaker: Jiwei Zhao (SUNY-Buffalo)
  Topic: Penalized pairwise pseudo likelihood for variable selection with nonignorable missing data
  Abstract

• March 30
  Speaker: Ruiqi Liu (Admission-to-candidacy Exam)
  Topic: Panel data and the binary choice model with group structure
  Abstract

• April 6
  Speaker: Yuexiao Dong (Temple University)
  Topic: Model-Free Variable Selection with Matrix-Valued Predictors
  Abstract

• April 20
  The usual time slot at 1:15 pm is loaned to the Data Science seminar. There is also an admission to candidacy exam using the colloquium time at 4:30 pm. See below.

• April 20
  Speaker: Wenbo Wang (Admission-to-candidacy Exam)
  Time: 4:25–5:40 pm (note the special time)
  Topic: Flexible Classification Methods with Confidence
  Abstract

• April 27
  Speaker: Konstantin Mischaikow (Rutgers University)
  Topic: Nonlinear Dynamics, High Dimensional Data, and Persistent Homology
  Abstract

• May 2 (note this is Tuesday)
  Speaker: Lin Yao
  Time: 1:30–3 pm (special time)
  Location: WH 329 (special location)
  Topic: James-Stein Type Optimal Weight Choice for Frequentist Model Average Estimator
  Abstract

• May 4 (4:40 pm)
  Speaker: Mohsen Pourahmadi (Texas A&M University)
  Topic: Stationary Subspace Analysis & Brain-Computer Interface
  Abstract