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SMAC TALKS SPRING 2015
Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics
Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics
Guidelines:
- 40 minutes for each talk + 20 minutes for discussion.
- The talk should be accessible to all grad students who have completed 1 year of the program.
- Informal style. For instance, chalk and blackboard talks are welcome.
- Interruptions during the talk are welcome (they are a mainstay of SMAC seminars!) but they should only be for clarifications; longer questions are to be left to the discussion period.
- Unpublished work may not be shared or discussed outside the group without the permission of the speaker/author.
Unless otherwise noted, all speakers are from the Department of Statistics at Penn State University.
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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January 16 | Weijie Shen | Review on two seemingly distinct curricula of Design of Experiments |
January 23 | Yang Liu | Structured Ordinary Least Squares |
January 30 | Sam Tajbakhsh (Industrial Engineering/Statistics, PSU) | Fitting Gaussian Random Field Models Using Semidefinite Programming |
February 6 | Chiara Lo Prete (Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, PSU) | Market manipulation through uneconomic virtual bidding: an application of strategic trader models to wholesale electricity markets |
February 13 | Ben Shaby | A three-groups model for high-throughput survival screens |
February 20 | Timothy Brick (Human Development and Family Studies, PSU) | Maintained Individual Data & Distributed Likelihood Evaluation |
February 27 | Nikos Papadatos (University of Athens) | A tight bound for the expected range from dependent observations |
March 6 | no talk/Friday before spring break | |
March 13 | no talk (spring break) | |
March 20 | No SMAC talk (prospective grads visit) | |
March 27 | Clio Andris (Geography, PSU) | Leveraging Social Flows with Geolocated Social Network Data |
April 3 | Nilam Ram (Human Development and Family Studies, PSU) | From Intraindividual Variability to Self-Regulation: Moving Toward Differential Equation Models of Psychological Processes |
April 10 | Jason Bernstein | Analyzing Diffusion with Transient Binding Processes Using Particle Filters |
April 17 | Special Seminar: Terry Speed | Instrumental variables and negative controls |
April 24 | Zhongyi Yuan (Smeal College of Business, PSU) |
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