The Statistics seminar aims to cover topics from all areas of statistics both from a traditional perspective but also from a more data science perspective. The seminar is also offered as MATH 567, Seminar in Statistics, Section 01.

Location: Whitney 100E (See the directions to the department)
Time: Thursdays, from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Organizers: Jingchen (Monika) Hu and Pratik Misra

See also: Data Science Seminar and the Capstone Seminar.

• August 28
  Speaker: Pratik Misra (Binghamton University)
  Title: Structural identifiability and causal discovery in Gaussian graphical models
  Abstract

• September 18
  Speaker: Zehang Richard Li (UC Santa Cruz)
  Title: Robust cause-of-death assignment using verbal autopsies
  Abstract

• September 25
  Speaker: Bryon Aragam (University of Chicago)
  Title: Bridging causality and deep learning with causal generative models
  Abstract

• October 9
  Speaker: Katherine Grzesik (University of Rochester)
  Title: TBD
  

• October 16
  Speaker: Samuel Wang (Cornell University)
  Title: TBD
  

• October 30
  Speaker: Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich)
  Title: TBD
  

• November 6
  Speaker: Harrison Quick (University of Minnesota)
  Title: TBD
  

• December 4
  Speaker: Sanvesh Srivastava (University of Iowa)
  Title: TBD
  

• March 6
  Speaker: Yushu Shi (Weill Cornell Medicine)
  Title: CAT: A conditional association test for microbiome data using a permutation approach
  Abstract
• March 20
  Speaker: Praveen Niranda (Internal)
  Title: Network Reconstruction Using Nonparametric Additive ODE Models
  Abstract
• March 27
  Speaker: Jonathan Stallrich (NC State)
  Title: Optimal Designs for Two-Stage Inference
  Abstract
• April 3
  Zoom presentation only
  Speaker: Rumi Chunara (NYU)
  Title: A Multi-level Perspective for Navigating the Intersection of Data and Public Health
  Abstract
• April 10
  Speaker: Tanzy Love (University of Rochester)
  Title: TBD
  Abstract
• April 17
  ABD Exam presentation
  Speaker: Zhongyuan Zhao (Internal)
  Title: On Optimality of the Shiryaev-Roberts Change-Point Detection Method in the Exponential Case
  Abstract
• April 24
  Speaker: Bruce Phillips (Internal)
  Title: Data Twinning
  Abstract
• May 1
  Speaker: Xinhai Zhang (Internal)
  Title: Neural Network Models in CATE Estimation
  Abstract