Weekly Student Seminar

FALL 2016

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC TITLE (Click for abstract)
Thu, Oct. 27 Andrey Skripnikov Vector autoregressive models Estimation of Multi-Granger Network Causal Models
Wed, Nov. 2 Runmin Shi Big data algorithms A Split-and-Merge Approach for Estimating Large-Scale Matrices
Wed, Nov. 9 Abhishek Bhattacharjee Empirical Bayes Bias Corrected Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals for the Selected Mean
Mon, Nov. 14 Syed Rahman Covariance matrix estimation A Convex Framework for High-Dimensional Sparse Cholesky-Based
Covariance Estimation of Gaussian DAG Models
Tue, Dec. 6 Xueying Tang Bayesian variable selection Bayesian Variable Selection and Estimation Based on Global-Local
Shrinkage Piors