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- Makuch Distinguished Lecture: Hongtu Zhu, UNC, Computation and Resource Efficient Genome-Wide Association Analysis for Large-Scale Imaging StudiesPresented by Hongtu Zhu, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics, Radiology, Computer Science & Genetics, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health AUST 202, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Webex Meeting Link Abstract: Imaging genetics links genetic variations to brain structures and functions, but the computational challenges […]Posted on March 28, 2025
- Statistical Colloquium: A systematic design construction and analysis for cost-efficient order-of-addition experiment, Frederick Kin Hing Phoa, Institute of Statistical Science, TaiwanPresented by Frederick Kin Hing Phoa, Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Joint work with Jing-Wen Huang, Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Friday, April 11, 2025, 10:00 AM, AUST 340 Coffee will be served at 9:30 in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Webex Meeting Link Abstract: In […]Posted on March 26, 2025
- Prof. Ming-Hui Chen elected as a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and EngineeringProf. Ming-Hui Chen elected as a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering! Congratulations! Clink this link for more details.Posted on March 25, 2025
- Prof. Yao Zheng has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for New Frontiers in Time Series AnalysisProf. Yao Zheng has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for New Frontiers in Time Series Analysis! Congratulations!Posted on March 24, 2025
- PhD student Alokesh Manna has been awarded a Student & Early Career Scholarship to attend the 2025 Symposium on Data Science and StatisticsPhD student Alokesh Manna has been awarded a Student & Early Career Scholarship to attend the 2025 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics! Congratulations!Posted on March 24, 2025
- Joint UConn-UMass STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM, Carlos Soto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Differential Privacy over Riemannian ManifoldsPresented by Carlos Soto, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst March 26, 2025, 4:00 pm, AUST 202 Coffee will be served at 3:30 in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Webex Meeting Link Abstract: In this work we consider the problem of releasing a differentially private statistical summary that resides on […]Posted on March 24, 2025
- Joint Colloquium with UConn Health: SyNPar: A Data-Preservation Framework for High-Power False Discovery Rate Control in High-Dimensional Variable Selection, Jingyi (Jessica) Li, UCLAPresented by Jingyi Jessica Li, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Coffee will be served at 3:30 in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Webex Meeting Link Abstract: Balancing false discovery rate (FDR) control and statistical power is a fundamental challenge in high-dimensional variable […]Posted on March 5, 2025
- Statistics Colloquium: Nonparametric Neighborhood Selection in Graphical Models, Yuedong Wang, Professor, University of California, Santa BarbaraPresented by Yuedong Wang, Professor, Department of Statistics & Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Coffee will be served at 3:30 in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Webex Meeting Link Abstract: The neighborhood selection method directly explores the conditional dependence structure and has been widely used […]Posted on March 3, 2025
- PhD students Sana Gupta and Alokesh Manna chosen as the recipients of the 2025 AAAS Student Travel AwardPhD students Sana Gupta and Alokesh Manna chosen as the recipients of the 2025 AAAS Student Travel Award. Congratulations! For further details, please visit the meeting page.Posted on February 5, 2025
- Sydney Louit, ’ PhD student has been selected as a winner of the ASA sponsored SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition.Sydney Louit, ’ PhD student has been selected as a winner of the ASA sponsored SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition. Congratulations! Sydney Louit’s paper “CALF-SBM: A Covariate-Assisted Latent Factor Stochastic Block Model” has been selected as a winner of the SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition. Award winners are invited to present their research in a special topic-contributed session at JSM 2025 […]Posted on February 4, 2025