Weekly Student Seminar Spring 2017

SPRING 2017

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC TITLE (Click for abstract)
Wed., Jan. 25 Jiyoun Myung Small area estimation Robust Bayesian Small Area Estimation
Wed., Feb. 8 Liyuan Zhang Markov Chain Monte Carlo Trace Class Markov Chains for Bayesian Shrinkage Models
Wed., Feb. 15 Saptarshi Chakraborty Markov Chain Monte Carlo Convergence Properties of Gibbs Samplers for Bayesian Probit
Regression with Proper Priors
Wed., Feb. 22 Carlos Martinez Graphical models Introducing Gaussian Concentration and Covariance Graph
Models in Genome-Wide Prediction
Wed., Mar. 1 Sophia Su Multivariate analysis Envelope Models and Methods
Wed., Mar. 15 Ethan Alt Time series Cointegration Models
Tue., Mar. 21 Satyajit Ghosh Vector autoregressive models High Dimensional Posterior Consistency in Bayesian Vector
Autoregressive Models
Tue., Mar. 28 Ray Bai Multiple hypothesis testing Bayesian Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Global-Local
Shrinkage Priors
Tue., Apr. 4 Qian Qin Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimating the Spectral Gap of a Trace-Class Markov Operator
Thu., Apr. 13 Isaac Duerr Temporal modeling and clustering Analyzing Repetitive Behavior in a Mouse Model
Tue., Apr. 18 Rohit Patra Astrostatistics Using Kernel Density Estimation to Identify Substructures in Galaxies