Student Seminars

All student seminars are held Thursday 1pm in 411 West Hall unless otherwise specified.
Please sign up for each seminar if you would like to be included in the lunch order.

Date	Speaker	Time/Location
Thursday May 2, 2013 sign up	Kohinoor Dasgupta Senior Biostatistician, Norvatis Bayesian Dose Escalation in Phase I Oncology Trials	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday April 18, 2013	Zhaoshi (Josh) Meng University of Michigan, EECS Distributed Learning of Gaussian Graphical Models via Marginal Likelihoods	1-2pm 411 WH
Tuesday April 16, 2013	Special Student Invited Speaker: Dr. Peter Hall The University of Melbourne, Mathematics and Statistics Reference paper: Deconvolution estimation of mixture distributions with boundaries	4-5pm 411 WH
Thursday April 11, 2013	Jian Tang University of Michigan, School of Information "Look Mum, No hands!" A Parameter-Free Topic Model	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday April 4, 2013	Arash Amini University of Michigan, Statistics Some problems in statistical inference involving graphs	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday March 28, 2013	Annual Report 4 Pramita Bagchi, Robert Yuen, Xiang Zhou University of Michigan, Statistics Titles and abstracts	1-3pm 411 WH
Thursday March 21, 2013	Faculty Research Introduction 4: Associate Professor Ben Hansen Professor Edward Rothman Professor Ji Zhu University of Michigan, Statistics	1-3pm 411 WH
Thursday March 14, 2013	Faculty Research Introduction 3: Associate Professor Moulinath Banerjee Professor Tailen Hsing Associate Professor Stilian Stoev University of Michigan, Statistics	1-3pm 411 WH
Thursday March 7, 2013	(Spring break, no seminar meeting)
Thursday February 28, 2013	Faculty Research Introduction 2: Professor Robert Keener Professor George Michailidis Assistant Professor Ambuj Tewari University of Michigan, Statistics	1-3pm 411 WH
Thursday February 21, 2013	Faculty Research Introduction 1: Associate Professor Edward Ionides Associate Professor Elizaveta Levina Professor Kerby Shedden University of Michigan, Statistics	1-3pm 411 WH
Friday February 15, 2013	Special Student Invited Speaker: Dr. Subhashis Ghoshal North Carolina State University, Statistics Discussion paper: Optimal Two-Stage Procedures for Estimating Location and Size of Maximum of Multivariate Regression Functions	2-3pm 411 WH
Thursday February 7, 2013	(No seminar meeting)
Thursday January 31, 2013	Annual Report 3 Adam Sales, Sumanta Basu, Nirupam Chakrabarty, Xi Lu University of Michigan, Statistics Titles and abstracts	1-3pm 411 WH
Thursday January 24, 2013	Elena Yudovina University of Michigan, Statistics Resource Pooling in Many-server Queues	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday January 17, 2013	Advising session: "How to choose an advisor?"	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday December 06, 2012	Round table discussion: Peer Review	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday November 29, 2012	Dr. Derek Posselt University of Michigan, AOSS Climate analysis and prediction: history, current challenges, and future opportunities	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday November 15, 2012	Nicholas Asendorf University of Michigan, EECS The Performance of a Matched Subspace Detector that Uses Subspaces Estimated from Finite, Noisy, Training Data	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday November 8, 2012	Annual Report 2 Atul Mallik, Shawn Mankad, Ashin Mukherjee and Yeo Jung Park University of Michigan, Statistics Titles and abstracts	1-3pm 411 WH
Friday November 2, 2012	CANCELLED Special Student Invited Speaker: Dr. Subhashis Ghoshal North Carolina State University, Statistics Discussion paper: Optimal Two-Stage Procedures for Estimating Location and Size of Maximum of Multivariate Regression Functions	2-3pm 411 WH
Thursday October 25, 2012	Philip Boonstra University of Michigan, Biostatistics Shrinkage Methods Utilizing Auxiliary Information to Improve High-Dimensional Prediction Models	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday October 18, 2012	Annual Report 1 Jie Cheng, Tom Brown, Ming-Chi Hsu, Zhen Wang and Juan Zhang University of Michigan, Statistics Titles and abstracts	1-3pm 411 WH
Thursday October 11, 2012	Round table discussion: "How to actively participate in a conference"	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday October 4, 2012	Yaniv Plan University of Michigan, Mathematics Binary Matrix Completion	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday September 27, 2012	Peisong Han University of Michigan, Biostatistics Improving the Efficiency of the AIPW Estimator in Regression Analysis with Missing Data	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday September 20, 2012	Summer Internship Panel Shweta Raizada, Yen-Yi Lai (Kevin), Steven Li University of Michigan, Statistics	1-2pm 411 WH
Thursday September 13, 2012	Student Discussion Session: Dr. Peter Bickel University of California, Berkeley, Statistics Special Student Invited Speaker Discussion Papers: 1. Stability as a tool in selecting tuning parameters: On the choice of m in the m out of n bootstrap and confidence bounds for extrema and Stability selection 2. Stability as a tool in analyzing procedures in high dimensions: On robust regression with high dimensional predictors 3. Stability of algorithms: Link Analysis, Eigenvectors and Stability	1-2pm 411 WH

Student Seminar Archive

For questions regarding the Statistics Student Seminar or if you are interested in presenting, please contact Can Le(canle@umich.edu), Jing Ma(mjing@umich.edu) or Yuan Zhang(yzhanghf@umich.edu).

Student Seminars

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