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PhD Exams

June 2019
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
Final Mingwei Tang PDL C-301 Fitting Stochastic Epidemic Models to Multiple Data Types
May 2019
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
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
February 2019
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
General Yicheng Li SAV 409 Estimating and Forecasting the Smoking-attributable Mortality Fraction for Both Sexes Jointly in 69 Countries
General Sean William Jewell PDL C-301 Fast nonconvex changepoint detection
January 2019
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
General Jessica L Godwin PDL C-14A Estimating Mortality at the Subnational Level in a Low and Medium Income Context
November 2018
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
Final PDL C-14A Statistical Methods for Manifold Recovery and C^{1, 1} Regression on Manifolds
October 2018
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
General Christopher Aicher CSE 305 Scalable Bayesian Inference in Time Series State Space Models
General Hannah Director PDL C-301 Space-Time Contour Models for Sea Ice Forecasting
July 2018
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
Final Theodore Westling PDL C-301 Nonparametric inference on monotone functions, with applications to observational studies
June 2018
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General Mengjie Pan PDL C-301 Analysis of Incomplete Network Data
Final Zehang Li PDL C-14A Bayesian Methods for Graphical Models with Limited Data
May 2018
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
General Shiqing Yu SMI 109 Generalized Score Matching for Non-Negative Data
Final Michael D. Karcher PDL C-301 Preferential sampling and model checking in phylodynamic inference
Final Luca Weihs PDL C-301 Parameter Identification and Assessment of Independence in Multivariate Statistical Modeling
General Wesley T Lee PDL C-301 Latent Variable Models for Imprecisely or Indirectly Measured Networks
March 2018
Event Type Speaker Building Room Time Title
General Nilanjana Laha LOW 102 Location estimation for symmetric log-concave densities
Final Yu-Hsuan S. Wang PDL C-14A Causal Discovery with non-Gaussian Data