Student Seminar Series

Last update: 5/13/08

SPRING 2008 MINI-SEMINARS FOR FIRST YEAR PHD STUDENTS

Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

Seminar Chair: 

4:30-4:45pm HARRY CRANE
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

4:45-5:00pm JOE GUINNESS
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

5:00-5:15pm JIE HUANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

5:15-5:30pm MEIQING LU
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

5:30-5:45pm BREAK

5:45-6:00pm PHIL LYNCH
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

6:00-6:15pm SERENA REZNY
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

6:15-6:30pm ANDREI SIMION
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

6:30-6:45pm TING ZHANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

SPRING 2008 MS PRESENTATIONS

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 2:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

TAEJIN KIM
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Empirical Estimation of Distributions of Limit Order Book

Friday, May 16, 2008 at 8:30 AM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

JIN XU
Departments of Sociology and Statistics, The University of Chicago
GARCH Local Approximation for Non-stationary Financial Data Through 1958-2007 and Its Influence in Value at Risk

Friday, May 16, 2008 at 10:00 AM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

TAKINTAYO AKINBIYI
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
An Intensity Based Patchwork of Parts Model For 2D Objects

Friday, May 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

SANG JIN PARK
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Hazard of Recurrence in Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer: Treatment Effects over Time by ER Status

Friday, May 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

YOU CHAN KEVIN CHUNG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Three-Step Disaggregate Forecasts of Personal Health Care Cost

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

SEOKWOO LEE
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Stochastic Volatility Model with Flex Normal Mixtures


Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 8:00 AM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

JIN WOO PARK
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

SPRING 2008 PHD PRESENTATIONS

Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

BAOGUAN KE
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
A Method for Genetic Mapping of Quantitative Traits and Related Statistical Problems


Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 3:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

DAVID MATTESON
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 3:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

MINSUN SONG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

SPRING 2008 MINI-SEMINARS FOR SECOND YEAR PHD STUDENTS

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

Seminar Chair: Dale Rosenthal

4:30-4:45pm WINFRIED BARTA
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
How Often to Shuffle a Deck of Cards?

4:45-5:00pm XIAOHUI CHANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Efficient Spatial Modeling of Bird Count Data

5:00-5:15pm NAIQING GU
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
A New Identification Condition for Recursive Models with Correlated Errors

5:15-5:30pm BREAK

5:30-5:45pm HAN HAN
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Penalized Likelihood Methods and Its Application in Estimating Large Covariance Matrix

5:45-6:00pm ALAN HUANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Empirical Likelihood with Pseudo-values

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

Seminar Chair: Dan Wang (05)

4:00-4:15pm YINXIAO HUANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
On Hidden Spatial-Temporal MRF Models for Time Course Gene Expression Data and Its FDR Test

4:15-4:30pm MYOUNGJI LEE
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Extreme Precipitation Return Levels

4:30-4:45pm ELIZABETH SMOOT
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
To be announced

4:45-5:00pm BREAK

5:00-5:15pm DAN CHRISTINA WANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Combine Field Data and Computer Simulations for Calibration

5:15-5:30pm HAN XIAO
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Circular Law