The series is envisioned as a vital contribution to the intellectual, cultural, and scholarly environment at The University of Texas at Austin for students, faculty, and the wider community. Each talk is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, contact SDS at stat[dot]admin@austin[dot]utexas[dot]edu
SEPTEMBER 2019
September 03, 2019 - Zhengwu Zhang
University of Rochester, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
"Statistical Analysis of Brain Structural Connectome"
GDC 7.514, 10:00 to 11:00 AM
September 06, 2019 - Joe Antonelli
University of Florida, Department of Statistics
"Doubly Robust Approaches to Causal Inference in High Dimensions"
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
September 13, 2019 - Weining Shen
University of California – Irvine, Department of Statistics
"When Classical Statistical Ideas Meet Modern Data Science"
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
September 20, 2019 - Rebecca Nugent
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Statistics and Data Science
"Instead of Just Teaching Data Science, Let’s Understand How and Why People Do It”
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
September 27, 2019 - Sanjib Basu
University of Illinois – Chicago, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
"Bayesian Criterion Based Variable Selection: Comparisons and Applications”
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
OCTOBER 2019
October 04, 2019 - Jennifer Starling
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences
"Smooth Extensions to BART, with Applications to Women's Healthcare Practice and Policy"
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
October 11, 2019 - Spencer Woody
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences
"Model Interpretation Through Posterior Summarization”
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
October 18, 2019 - Kelly Kang
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences
"A New Multivariate Location Scale Skew Gamily of Densities"
CBA 4.328, 3:00 to 4:00 PM **NOTE Time Change**
NOVEMBER 2019
November 01, 2019 - Zhenke Wu
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Department of Biostatistics
"Regression Analysis for Probabilistic Cause-of-Disease Assignment using Case-Control Diagnostic Tests"
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
November 08, 2019 - Henry Scharf
San Diego State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
"Statistical Models for Heterogeneous Animal Movement"
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
November 15, 2019 - Robert Gramacy
Virginia Tech University, Department of Statistics
"Replication or Exploration? Sequential Design for Stochastic Simulation Experiments"
CBA 4.328, 2:00 to 3:00 PM
