Archived Events

Speaker: Qijia Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Davis

Title: "Applied Mathematics Beyond the Textbook"

Speaker: Thomas Trogdon, Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

Title:  "Applications of orthogonal polynomials in the study of random matrices and randomized algorithms"

Speaker: Min-ge Xie, Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University

Title: "Fisher Inversion, Repro Samples Method, and Principled Random Forests"

Speaker: Dogyoon Song, Assistant Professor, Statistics, UC Davis

Title: "Taming Overparameterized Models: OLS Interpolators, Regularization, and Beyond"

Speaker: Michael Berger, Head of Insure AI at Munich Re

Title: "Risk Assessment for Machine Learning Models"

Speaker: Lexin Li, Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology / Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley

Title: "Statistical Neuroimaging Analysis: An Overview"

We are so excited for you to start your journey as a UC Davis graduate student!

Speaker: Thomas Staudt, University of Göttingen, Germany

Title: “Empirical Optimal Transport - Convergence and Limit Laws”

Speaker: Xiao Fang, Associate Professor of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: "High-dimensional Central Limit Theorems by Stein's Method in the Degenerate Case"

Speaker: Samuel D. Oman, Professor, Statistics and Data Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Title: "Kriging Using James-Stein Estimators which Contract to Subspaces"

Speaker: Sebastian Kühnert, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, UC Davis

Title: An operator-level GARCH model

Speaker: Matias D. Cattaneo (Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University)

Title: "Adaptive Decision Tree Methods"

The talk is based on the following two papers: 

Speaker: Qiwei Yao (Professor, Statistics, London School of Economics)

Title: "Modelling Matrix Time Series via a Tensor CP-Decomposition"

Speaker: Kai Zhang, Associate Professor, Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Title: "BET and BELIEF"

Speaker: Marcelo C. Medeiros, Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title: "Cost-aware Portfolios in a Large Universe of Assets"