Student Seminar Series

Seminars listed as To Be Announced (TBA) will be updated as their title and abstracts become available.

Fall 2020 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title
October 7, 2020 Start: 3:00 pm Location: Online	Lu Cheng, PhD Student in Statistics	First-Order Correction of Statistical Significance for Screening Two-Way Epistatic Interactions
October 21, 2020 Start: 3:00 pm Location: Online	José Luis Avilez Escribens, MMath Student in Statistics	Is the integral the most important object in all of mathematics?
October 28, 2020 Start: 3:00 pm Location: Online	Kelly Ramsay, PhD Student in Statistics	Introduction to Differential Privacy
November 4, 2020 Start: 3:00 pm Location: Online	Lucy Gao, Assistant Professor	Beyond sample-splitting: valid inference while “double-dipping”
November 18, 2020 Start: 3:00 pm Location: Online	Trang Bui, PhD Student in Statistics	TBA
November 25, 2020 Start: 3:00 pm Location: Online	Glen McGee, Assistant Professor	TBA
December 2, 2020 Start: 3:00 pm Location: Online	Jian Jie, PhD Student in Statistics	TBA

Date	Speaker	Title
July 29, 2020 Start: 4:00 pm Location: Online	Chris Salahub, PhD in Statistics	A statistician's introduction to genomics
August 5, 2020 Start: 4:00 pm Location: Online	Carlos Araiza Iturria, PhD in Actuarial Science	Discrimination-aware decisions in finance and insurance
August 12, 2020 Start: 4:00 pm Location: Online	Rui Qiao, PhD in Statistics	A statistician's introduction to proteomics
August 19, 2020 Start: 4:00 pm Location: Online	Samuel Wong, Assistant Professor	Assessing the Impacts of Mutations to the Structure of COVID-19 Spike Protein via Sequential Monte Carlo