- Computing with confidence (figuratively and literally)
Wednesday--September 10, 2014--Dr. Scott Ferson--Applied Biomathematics - Multi-armed Bandits with Covariates: Theory and Applications
Wednesday--September 14, 2014--Professor Tze Lai--Stanford University - Fiber Direction Estimation in Diffusion MRI
Wednesday--September 24, 2014--Professor Thomas Lee--University of California-Davis - Adaptive Bayesian Estimation via Block Prior
Wednesday--October 1, 2014--Professor Harrison Zhou--Yale University - Stochastic Approximation with Side Information
Wednesday--October 8, 2014--Professor Lauren Hannah--Columbia University - Semi-Nonparametric Inference for Massive Data
Wednesday--October 15, 2014--Professor Guang Cheng--Purdue University - Data driven Distributionally Robust Stochastic Optimization:Uncertainty Quantication and Model Misspecification
Wednesday--October 22, 2014--Professor Anand Vidyashankar--George Mason University - Semi-supervised Inference with numerical dependent variable Means, Covariances and Linear Prediction; General Theory
Wednesday--October 29, 2014--Professor Lawrence Brown--Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Sup-norm posterior contraction and uncertainty quantification in multivariate nonparametric regression with application to mode finding
Wednesday--November 5, 2014--Professor Subhashis Ghoshal--North Carolina State University - Spectral projectors of sample covariance: asymptotics and concentration
Wednesday--November 12, 2014--Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii--Georgia Tech - Scalable Model Selection for Logistic Regression
Wednesday--November 19, 2014--Professor Xuming He--University of Michigan - Probing with Severity: Beyond Bayesian Probabilism and Frequentist Performance
Wednesday--December 3, 2014--Professor Deborah Mayo--Virigina Tech - Analyzing Single-Molecule Protein-Targeting Experiments via Hierarchical
Thursday--December 4, 2014--Professor Samuel Kou--Harvard University
