PhD student Alokesh Manna has been awarded a Student & Early Career Scholarship to attend the 2025 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics! Congratulations!
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Joint UConn-UMass STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM， Carlos Soto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst， Differential Privacy over Riemannian Manifolds
Presented 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 […]
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, UCLA
Presented 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 […]
Statistics Colloquium: Nonparametric Neighborhood Selection in Graphical Models, Yuedong Wang, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presented 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 […]
PhD students Sana Gupta and Alokesh Manna chosen as the recipients of the 2025 AAAS Student Travel Award
PhD 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.
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 […]
Prof. Neil Spencer awarded Makuch Faculty Fund Award in Mathematical Sciences
We are delighted to announce that Neil Spencer, Assistant Professor in Statistics, has been named the new Makuch Faculty Fellow (January 2025-December 2026). This fellowship was instituted through a generous donation from Robert Makuch (’72 CLAS). Neil Spencer, PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in robust Bayesian inference, network science, […]
Paper of the Month: February 2025
Once a month during the academic year, the statistics faculty select a paper for our students to read and discuss. Papers are selected based on their impact or historical value, or because they contain useful techniques or results. How to annoy a journal editor – top 10 typesetting mistakes when submitting a paper in LaTeX […]
Interdisciplinary Seminar: Dr. Walter Dempsey, University of Michigan
Challenges in Time-Varying Causal Effect Moderation Analysis in Mobile Health Presented by Walter Dempsey, University of Michigan Friday, 24/01/25, 11am, ET Online Webex Meeting Link Meeting # 2633 697 8890 Password: RMMESTAT Abstract: Twin revolutions in wearable technologies and smartphone-delivered digital health interventions have significantly expanded the accessibility and uptake of mobile health (mHealth) interventions […]
Statistics Colloquium: Haihan Yu, University of Rhode Island, A practical interval estimation method for spectral density function
A practical interval estimation method for spectral density function Presented by Haihan Yu, University of Rhode Island Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 4:00 PM, AUST 202 Webex Meeting Link Abstract: The spectral density function can play a key role in time series analysis, where nonparametric interval estimation of the spectral density is a fundamental issue. However, […]