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March 2020
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General Branden Olson PDL C-301 Statistical methods for adaptive immune receptor repertoire analysis and comparison
February 2020
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General Sheridan Grant PDL C-301 Quantifying Uncertainty in Causal Discovery with Bayesian Causal Model Selection
January 2020
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General Aaron E. Osgood-Zimmerman PDL C-301 Laplace approximations and ordinal models for continuous spatial and spatio-temporal health mapping applications
December 2019
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Final Christopher Aicher CSE2 371 Scalable Learning in Latent State Sequential Data Models
November 2019
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Final Yicheng Li SAV 245 Bayesian Hierarchical Models and Moment Bounds for High-Dimensional Time Series
General Yandi Shen PDL C-301 Functional Estimation in Nonparametric Regression
General Fangjian Guo CSE2 387 On Testing Marginal versus Conditional Independence
October 2019
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General John Leonard Paige PDL C-301 Flexible spatial models for household survey data in low and middle income countries
August 2019
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Final Wesley T Lee PDL C-301 Latent Variable Models for Indirectly or Imprecisely Measured Networks
Final Nilanjana Laha PDL C-301 Estimation and testing under shape constraints
July 2019
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Final Bowen Wang PDL C-14A Realized genome sharing in random effects models for quantitative genetic traits
Final Mengjie Pan PDL C-301 Inferring Network Structure From Partially Observed Graphs
General Hongjian Shi PDL C-301 High-dimensional independence testing with maxima of rank correlations
June 2019
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General Annelise Mavis Wagner PDL C-301 Recursive Inversion Models for Partially Ranked Data
General Corinne Jones CSE2 345 Kernel-based Translations of Convolutional Networks
Final Mingwei Tang PDL C-301 Fitting Stochastic Epidemic Models to Multiple Data Types
May 2019
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General Samson Jonathan Koelle PDL C-301 Gradient Group Lasso Identifies Sparse Functional Basis for Molecular Manifolds
Final Amrit Dhar PDL C-301 Large-Scale B Cell Receptor Sequence Analysis Using Phylogenetics and Machine Learning
Final Jim Faulkner, QERM Ph.D. Candidate AND 207 Adaptive Bayesian Nonparametric Smoothing with Markov Random Fields and Shrinkage Priors
March 2019
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
General Peiran Liu SMI 111 Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Demographic and Climate Change Indicators