Student Seminar Series Archive

WINTER QUARTER 2008 JOB TALK PRESENTATIONS

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 4:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

YINGYING LI
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Rounding Errors and Volatility Estimation


Friday, February 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

DAVID S. MATTESON
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
High Dimensional Volatility Models


Friday, February 1, 2008 at 1:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

XINGHUA ZHENG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Critical Branching Random Walks and Spatial Epidemics


Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 4:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

YINGYING LI
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Are Volatility Estimators Robust with Respect to Modeling Assumptions?

AUTUMN QUARTER 2007 PhD Presentation

TUESDAY, December 4 , 2007 at 3:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

SU YEON KIM
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Adaptive Evolution of Conserved Non-coding Elements

AUTUMN QUARTER 2007 Master's Presentation

WEDNESDAY, October 17, 2007 at 2:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

YOUNG EUN KIM
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Childhood Malaria in the Gambia


FRIDAY, October 26, 2007 at 9:00 AM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.



TUESDAY, November 6, 2007 at 2:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

LUCY A. BILAVER
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
An Application of Graphical Model Checking Methods for Discrete Time Hazard Models


FRIDAY, November 9, 2007 at 9:30 AM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

JIANGLAI ZHANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Empirical Study of Parametric and Non-parametric VaR Models


TUESDAY, November 13, 2007 at  3:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

WEI-CHUN WANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Estimation of Measurement Errors of Childhood Retrospective Section of NLSY97 Survey

AUTUMN QUARTER 2007 Seminars for Fourth Year PhD Students

THURSDAY, November 1, 2007 at 3:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

XINGHUA ZHENG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Critical Branching Random Walks and Spatial Epidemics


TUESDAY, November 27, 2007 at 3:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

ZHOU ZHOU
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Local Linear Quantile Estimation for Non-stationary Time Series


THURSDAY, November 29, 2007 at 3:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.



THURSDAY, November 29, 2007 at 4:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

WENLONG WANG
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Wavelet Analysis for Non-stationary Time Series


MONDAY, December 10, 2007 at 4:30 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

DALE ROSENTHAL
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Trade Signing and Nearly-Gamma Random Variables

AUTUMN QUARTER 2007 Practice Job Presentations

MONDAY, October 22, 2007 at 12:00 PM.
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

SU YEON KIM
Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Adaptive Evolution of Conserved Non-coding Elements

 

SUMMER 2007 Ph.D. Presentations

  MONDAY, July 9, 2007 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ZHIBIAO ZHAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Nonparametric Inference for Stochastic Diffusion Models

  TUESDAY, July 10, 2007 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ANGELA HUGEBACK
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Point Process Models for Astronomy: Quasars, Coronal Mass Ejections, and Solar Flares

  MONDAY, July 16, 2007 at 1:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  CHAE YOUNG LIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Characteristics of a Model Error in an Air Quality Model and Fixed-Domain Asymptotic
  Properties of Spatial Cross-Periodograms

 

SUMMER 2007 Master's Presentations

  FRIDAY, July 27, 2007 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ERIKA GARCIA
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Observed Flow of Travelers in the U.S.-Mexico Border: Modeling
  and Decomposition Using RegARIMA


  TUESDAY, July 31, 2007 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JIE PENG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Feasibility of a Genome-Wide Linkage Study of a Large Asthma Pedigree


  TUESDAY, July 31, 2007 at 5:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  OLIVER RANDALL
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Variance Futures and Correcting the VIX


  FRIDAY, August 3, 2007 at 10:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  HANS ROGGEMAN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Copula, Co-integration and Regression Methods in Mean-reversion
  Stock-Option Trading Strategies

SPRING 2007 Mini-seminars for First Year Ph.D. Students

  TUESDAY, May 29, 2007 at 4:30 - 5:45 PM, Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Seminar Chair:  Marcin Hitczenko

 
  4:30-4:45pm ALAN HUANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Maximum Likelihood Methods for Phylogenetic Trees

  4:45-5:00pm XIAOHUI CHANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Robust Regression Model for Unequally Spaced Time Series Data
  with Application to Water Monitoring

  5:00-5:15pm HAN HAN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Equatorial Normal Mode in Modeling Large-Scale Wind Component

  5:15-5:30pm WINFRIED BARTA
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  How Often to Shuffle a Deck of Cards to Make it Random?

  5:30-5:45pm HAN XIAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Algebraic Algorithms for Sampling from Conditional Distributions


  WEDNESDAY, May 30, 2007 4:00 - 5:15 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Seminar Chair:  Michael Finegold

 
  4:00-4:15pm YINXIAO HUANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Equi-energy Sampler by Kou, Zhou and Wong

  4:15-4:30pm MYOUNG JI LEE
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Model-based Geostatistics

  4:30-4:45pm DAN CHRISTINA WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Nonparametric Inference of Value-at-Risk for Dependent Financial Returns

  4:45-5:00pm NAIQING GU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A  Limit Theorem for Hidden Markov α-chains

  5:00-5:15pm ELIZABETH SMOOT
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  To be announced

 

SPRING 2007 Seminars for Fourth Year PhD Students

  TUESDAY, May 22, 2007 at 1:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  OMAR DE LA CRUZ
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Geometric Approach for Detecting Cell Cycle Gene Expression

 

 

SPRING 2007 Master's Presentations

  WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  RYAN CARR
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  No Small Potatoes. Using Shopper ID level models to measure the impact of targeted
  marketing for a popular potato product

 


  FRIDAY, April 20, 2007 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  KUN-HO KIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Kernel-based Estimation of the Density for the Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic
  Process

 

 

WINTER 2007 Practice Job Presentations

  THURSDAY, February 1 , 2007 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  CHAE YOUNG LIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Characteristics of Model Error in an Air Quality Model and Fixed-Domain Asymptotic
  Properties of Spatial Cross-Periodogram


  FRIDAY, January 19, 2007 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ZHIBIAO ZHAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Confidence Bands in Nonparametric Time Series Regression

 

WINTER 2007 Mini-seminars for Second Year Ph.D. Students

Seminar Chair:  Omar De La Cruz

  TUESDAY, March 6, 2007 at 4:00 - 5:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  4:00-4:15pm DAN WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Hedging Variance Options

  4:15-4:30pm MARCIN HITCZENKO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Likelihood Approximation for Large Data Sets

  4:30-4:45pm OLIVER RANDALL
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

  4:45-5:00pm MICHAEL FINEGOLD
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Hidden Markov Models in Customer Relationship Management

  5:00-5:15pm CHANGGEE CHANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Volatility Estimators for Discretely Sampled Levy Processes

  5:15-5:30pm XIAOQUAN WEN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Testing Ungenotyped Genetic Variation in Genome-wide Association Studies

 

 

WINTER 2007 Master's Seminars

  WEDNESDAY, February 21 , 2007 at 12:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  RAYMOND LEE
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  An Investigation of a Time Series Model For Forecasting of Insurance Claim Runoff Triangles


AUTUMN 2006 Seminars for Fourth Year PhD Students

  WEDNESDAY, October 18, 2006 at 4:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  YINGYING LI
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Robustness of Volatility Estimators

 


  WEDNESDAY, November 1, 2006 at 4:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  DARONGSAE KWON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Kriging Prediction with Estimated Covariances

 


  TUESDAY, November 28, 2006 at 10:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  MINSUN SONG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Methods for Detecting Gene-Gene Interaction and Single-Locus Association

 


  WEDNESDAY, November 29, 2006 at 4:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  DAVID MATTESON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimating High Dimensional Volatility Models

 

 

AUTUMN 2006 Master's Presentations

  FRIDAY, October 6, 2006 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  LIPING GAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Fitting and Testing a Semiparametric Generalized Linear Model Against Alternative Models

 


  THURSDAY, November 9, 2006 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JIA LIU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Cointegration Analysis

 


  THURSDAY, November 9 , 2006 at 1:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  SEUNG MIN YAE
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  How to Detect Source of Economic Change, Structure or State?

 


  FRIDAY, November 10, 2006 at 8:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  YING LI
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Long Memory and Conditional Heteroscedasticity in Network Data

 


  MONDAY, November 13 , 2006 at 1:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  MARIA PAULA RIOS ARANGO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Monte Carlo Approach to Price Colombian Volatility Reducing Options

 


  TUESDAY, November 14 , 2006 at 4:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  XIAN YU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Analysis of Insured Hurricane Losses in the US with Application to
  Industry Loss Warranties


  WEDNESDAY, November 15 , 2006 at 9:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  KANRU XIA
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Inference of Hidden Markov Chain in a False Discovery Control Paradigm


  THURSDAY, November 16 , 2006 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  STACY STEINBERG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Detection of Relationship Errors in Inbred Pedigrees

 


  THURSDAY, November 16 , 2006 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  CHINGLAN HUANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Analysis of Children’s Performances and Their Demographic Characteristics

 


  FRIDAY, November 17 , 2006 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  BYEONG CHANG YANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Prequential Guidelines When Making Predictions Using Short Time Series

 

SUMMER 2006 Ph.D. Presentations

  WEDNESDAY, July 5, 2006 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  XIAOFENG SHAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Evaluation of Multiresolution Model Output and Spectral Analysis for
  Nonlinear Time Series

  TUESDAY, July 18, 2006 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JIE YANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Infinite Exchangeability & Partitions and Permanent Process & Classification Model

  TUESDAY, July 25, 2006 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  IRINA OSTROVNAYA
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimating Error Rates for Independent and Dependent Test Statistics

SUMMER 2006 Master's Presentations

  WEDNESDAY, July 26, 2006 at 9:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  QINGLING DU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Fitting Regression Models Under Case-control Sampling

  MONDAY, July 31, 2006 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  LI MA
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Correcting the Bias Arising from Cluster Sampling Using Horvitz-Thompson Estimation in a
  Problem of Estimating the Number of Fish Eggs in a Southern Alaskan Region

  TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2006 at 9:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ZHUO ZHENG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Boosting and Bagging of Neural Networks with Applications to Financial Time Series

  WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2006 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  NATHANIEL LOMAN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Detection of Allelic Deletion via Inference of Loss of Heterozygosity in Acute Lymphoblastic
  Leukemia by use of a Hidden Markov Model

  THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2006 at 10:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  FEN LIN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Discrete Time Survival Model: Diffusion of Freedom of Information Laws Among OECD Nations

SPRING 2006 Ph.D. Presentations

  MONDAY, May 15, 2006 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ABIGAIL JAGER
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Likelihood Methods for Potential Outcomes

SPRING 2006 Master's Presentations

  FRIDAY, April 14, 2006 at 9:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  FANG LIU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Automatic Classification of Statement and Question Intonations in Mandarin

  THURSDAY, April 27, 2006 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  MINGJUN WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Cream, Sugar, or Black?
  Comparison of Several Statistical Classification Methods in a Target Marketing Application

  FRIDAY, May 5, 2006 at 1:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  FARNAZ MAHKHOU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A 20-Day NCCLS Precision

  WEDNESDAY, May 12, 2006 at 9:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  YOUNG ROK KIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Pricing Weather Derivatives

  FRIDAY, May 12, 2006 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  HONG GI MIN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Bayesian Inference of Stochastic Beta Model and GARCH Processes

  WEDNESDAY, May 17, 2006 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  PAUL BAILEY
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Bayesian Variable Selection in Multiple Regression with a p-norm Based Prior

  THURSDAY, May 18, 2006 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  WEN MIN CHEN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Hierarchical Models Using Mixture of Normal Distributions And Dirichlet Process

SPRING 2006 Mini-seminars for First Year Ph.D. Students

Seminar Chair:  Zuoheng Wang

  THURSDAY, May 25, 2006 at 12:00 -1:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  12:00-12:15pm MICHAEL FINEGOLD
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Coalescent

  12:15-12:30pm MARCIN HITCZENKO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Dirichlet Cluster Processes and Classification Problems

  12:30-12:45pm DAN WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  How Corporate Defaults are Correlated

  12:45-1:00pm OLIVER RANDALL
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimating Semiparametric ARCH(∞) Models by Kernel Smoothing Methods
  Authors: O. Linton and E. Mammen
  Source: Econometrica, Vol. 73, No. 3 (May, 2005), 771-836

 

WINTER 2006 Mini-seminars for Second Year Ph.D. Students

Seminar Chair:  Yibi Huang

  TUESDAY, March 7, 2006 at 4:00 - 5:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  4:00-4:15pm DALE ROSENTHAL
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Liquidity Risk and Arbitrage Pricing Theory

  4:15-4:30pm XINGHUA ZHENG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Windings of Planar Brownian Motion and Random Walks

  4:30-4:45pm ZUOHENG WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Association Test by Adjusting for Population Heterogeneity

  4:45-5:00pm OMAR DE LA CRUZ
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Normalization of Microarray Data

  5:00-5:15pm ZHOU ZHOU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Quantile Regression: Applications and Current Research Areas

  5:15-5:30pm WENLONG WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Electric Networks and Probability on Graphs

 


WINTER 2006 Master's Presentations

  TUESDAY, February 21, 2006 at 9:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  HYUNG JIN KIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Modeling Hidden Exposures in Claim Severity

  WEDNESDAY, February 22, 2006 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JUN LIU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Impact of Market Microstructure Noise on Non-parametric Jump Test

  THURSDAY, February 23, 2006 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  LEI LIAN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  How Effective are Realized Effective Spreads?

 

WINTER 2006 Practice Job Presentations

  THURSDAY, January 26, 2006 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  XIAOFENG SHAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Fourier Analysis in Time Series:  Some Theory and an Application to Space-Time Modeling


  THURSDAY, February 16, 2006 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JIE YANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Exchangeable Cluster Processes for Classification Problems

 

AUTUMN 2005 Seminars for Fourth Year PhD Students

  MONDAY, October 31, 2005 at 2:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  SU YEON KIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Testing for Natural Selection on Conserved Non-genic Sequences in Mammals

  MONDAY, November 14, 2005 at 2:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  CHAE YOUNG LIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Properties on Error of the Air Pollution Model

  TUESDAY, November 15, 2005 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ANGELA SNYDER
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistics for Astronomy:  Inference About the Population of Quasars

  FRIDAY, November 18, 2005 at 3:45 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ZHIBIAO ZHAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Theory for Curve/level Crossing Analysis

  TUESDAY, November 29, 2005 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  BAOGUAN  KE
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Looking for Risk Variants Using Conditional TDT

  TUESDAY, November 29, 2005 at 5:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  OLI ATLASON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Generalized Parametric Models

AUTUMN 2005 Ph.D. Presentations

  WEDNESDAY, October 19, 2005 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  HAE KYUNG IM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Two Problems in Environmetrics

  WEDNESDAY, November 2, 2005 at 4:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  MAOXIA ZHENG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Two Statistical Problems in Gene Mapping

  MONDAY, November 7, 2005 at 12:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ELLIOT JOEL BERNSTEIN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Models for Object Classification and Detection

  WEDNESDAY, November 9, 2005 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  TIMOTHY THORNTON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Inference for Genetic Analysis in Related Individuals

AUTUMN 2005 Master's Presentations

  TUESDAY, October 4, 2005 at 9:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  TAO LIANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Bayesian Analysis of Extreme Events with Time-varying Parameters

  MONDAY, October 17, 2005 at 9:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  HUI DU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Bayesian Nonlinear Regression with Spatial Structure

  THURSDAY, October 27, 2005 at 3:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  CHAVA ZIBMAN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Semi-parametric Modeling of Effects of Air Quality Respiratory Health in Chicago
  Medicaid Population

  WEDNESDAY, November 16, 2005 at 11:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JAKE BYRNES
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Using a HMM to Identify Ectopic Gene Conversion Events

  WEDNESDAY, November 16, 2005 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  BENJAMIN VERSCHUERE
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  On the Pricing of Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligation with Factor Copulas

  THURSDAY, November 17, 2005 at 10:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  CLIFTON EMERY
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Item Non-Response in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods,
  Consequences for Domestic Violence and Child Behavior

  THURSDAY, November 17, 2005 at 12:00 NOON,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  BRINDA BIJAWAT
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Impact of Coronary Heart Disease and Arthritis on Depressive Symptoms - A Longitudinal
  Study

  THURSDAY, November 17, 2005 at 3:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  EUN-HAE KO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Media Bias and Public Intellectuals: Newspapers with Different Appetites

 

SUMMER 2005 Master's Presentations


  TUESDAY, July 19, 2005 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  HONG XU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Sleep stage classification by EEG wave

  WEDNESDAY, July 27, 2005 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  BROOKE SOWELL
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimating the recovery kinetics of tER sites

  FRIDAY, July 29, 2005 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  SHALI WU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Cultural differences in perspective taking

SUMMER 2005 Ph.D. Presentations

  MONDAY, July 11, 2005 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  MIKYOUNG JUN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Space-time models and their application to air pollution

  WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2005 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ETHAN ANDERES
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimating Deformations of Gaussian Random Fields

SPRING 2005 Mini-seminars for First Year Ph.D. Students

Angela Snyder , Seminar Chair

  TUESDAY, May 24, 2004 at 4:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  4:30 pm  WENLONG WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Equivalence of Absorbing and Reflecting Barrier Problems for Stochastically Monnotone
  Markov Processes

  4:45 pm  DALE ROSENTHAL
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A New Statistic for Influence in Linear Regression

  5:00 pm  OMAR DE LA CRUZ
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Choice of a Null Hypothesis in Large-Scale Simultaneous Testing

  5:15 pm  ZUOHENG WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Bayesian Method to Infer Haplotypes from Genotype Data

  5:30 pm  XINGHUA ZHENG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Geometric Bounds for Eigenvalues of Markov Chains

  5:45 pm  ZHOU ZHOU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Tale of Two Time Scales: Determining Integrated Volatility with Noisy High-Frequency Data

 

SPRING 2005 Master's Presentations

  MONDAY, May 9, 2005 at 1:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  WEIHUA GUO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Influence of Body Mass Index and Other Characteristics on Outcomes After
  Treatment for Early Stage Colon Cancer

  FRIDAY, May 13, 2005 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  HSI-WEN CHEN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Exchange Rate Using VARs

 WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2005 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JACEK CZAJKOWSKI
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Online Poker – Analysis by CART and Random Forest

 WEDNESDAY, May 18, 2005 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  MICHELE GLATTER
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Gibbs Sampler for Predictive Covariance Matrices Using a Bayesian Approach

WINTER 2005 Mini-seminars for Second Year Ph.D. Students

Baoguan Ke , Seminar Chair

  WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2005 at 4:00 - 5:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  4:00-4:18pm YIBI HUANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Optimal Rate of Deconvolution Problems

  4:18-4:36pm YINGYING LI
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Determining Integrated Volatility of a Diffusion Process, in the Presence of Round-off Errors

  4:36-4:54pm DARONGSAE KWON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Using PageRank to Characterize Web Structure

  4:54-5:12pm MINSUN SONG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Genetic Risk Factors for the Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  5:12-5:30pm DAVID MATTESON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Distribution of Realized Exchange Rate Volatility

 

 

WINTER 2005 Master's Presentations

  FRIDAY, February 18, 2005 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JULIA YINGHUA ZHU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Economic Value of Volatility Timing Using Realized Volatility Under Optimal Sampling

  FRIDAY, February 25, 2005 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  PANGDING ZHU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Simulation-Based Bayesian Estimation of Quadratic Term Structure Models

 

AUTUMN 2004 Mini-workshop Seminars for Fourth Year Students

  WEDNESDAY, December 1, 2004 at 1:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  CHAVA ZIBMAN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Accounting for Confounding by Time in a Semi-parametric Air Pollution Model

  FRIDAY, November 19, 2004 at 1:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  YAN LI
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Methods for the Identification of Microdeletions

  WEDNESDAY, November 17, 2004 at 4:15 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  JIE YANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Infinite Exchangeability and Random Set Partitions

  THURSDAY, November 11, 2004 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  IRINA OSTROVNAYA
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Improved Estimation of the False Discovery Rate

  THURSDAY, November 11, 2004 at 4:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  XIAOFENG SHAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Evaluation of Multiresolution Model Output, and Asymptotic Spectral Theory for
  Nonlinear Time Series

AUTUMN 2004 Master's Presentations

  WEDNESDAY, November 17, 2004 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  OU JIN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Smooth Transition Autoregressive Stochastic Volatility (STAR-SV) Modeling--Bayesian Inference
  Through C++ Programming

  TUESDAY, November 2, 2004 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  XIAODONG WU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Trend Test for Association in Case-Control Studies with Pedigree Data

  MONDAY, October 18, 2004 at 9:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  HAN GAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimation of Variance Components of Lymphocytes and Cortisol in Inbred Populations

  FRIDAY, October 8, 2004 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  ANGELA SNYDER
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Mastermind by Importance Sampling and Metropolis-Hastings

  THURSDAY, September 30, 2004 at 8:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  PENG ZHANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Different Age Distribution Patterns of Human, Nematode, Arabidopsis Duplicate Genes

SUMMER 2004 Ph.D. Presentations

  TUESDAY, July 6, 2004 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  DAVID CLIFFORD
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  The Nature of Spatial Variation in Crop Yields

  THURSDAY, July 22, 2004 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  LIPING TONG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Statistical Inference for Multi-color Optical Mapping Data

SUMMER 2004 Master's Presentations

  FRIDAY, July 16, 2004 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  NA PENG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Empirical Study on Deviance Information Criterion with Stochastic Volatility Models

  WEDNESDAY, August 4, 2004 at 10:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  WEN GU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Distributed Lag Model: Analysis of Air Pollution on Asthma Occurrence

  MONDAY, August 30, 2004 at 9:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  YONG WANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Bayesian Linear Modeling Investigation of eBay Seller's Realized Profit

SPRING 2004 Ph.D. Presentations

  THURSDAY, June 10, 2004 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  WANLI MIN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Inferences on Time Series Driven by Dependent Innovations

  WEDNESDAY, June 23, 2004 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  RITUPARNA SEN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Modeling the Stock Price Process as a Continuous Time Jump Process

SPRING 2004 Master's Presentations

  FRIDAY, June 18, 2004 at 11:00 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  TONGYAI IYAVARAKUL
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Bootstrap Inference of Gini Index of Income Inequality in Thailand

  TUESDAY, May 25, 2004 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  XINGE ZHENG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Shape Restricted Nonparametric Method with Financial Applications

SPRING 2004 Mini-seminars for First Year Ph.D. Students

Xiaofeng Shao, Seminar Chair

  WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2004 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  4:00-4:15pm YIBI HUANG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Exact Sampling with Coupled Markov Chains and Applications to Statistical Mechanics

  4:15-4:30pm ZUMIN LUO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Rescaling of Marked Point Processes

  4:30-4:45pm DARONGSAE KWON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach to Multiple Testing

  4:45-5:00pm MINSUN SONG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Random Field Approach to the Analysis of Field-Plot Experiments and Other Spatial
  Experiments

  5:00-5:15pm YINGYING LI
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Iterated Random Functions

  5:15-5:30pm DAVID MATTESON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Least Angle Regression

  5:30-5:45pm MICHELE GLATTER
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Variable Selection and Shrinkage Comparison of Some Approaches

 

WINTER 2004 Mini-seminars for Second Year Ph.D. Students

Irina Ostrovnaya, Seminar Chair

  TUESDAY, March 9, 2004 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  4:00-4:15pm OLI ATLASON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Frequentist Model Averaging

  4:15-4:30pm CHAE YOUNG LIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms for Point Process

  4:30-4:45pm BAOGUAN KE
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Discovery of Conserved Sequence Patterns

  4:45-5:00pm SU YEON KIM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimation of Space-Time Covariance Matrix with Missing Observation

  5:00-5:15pm ANGELA SNYDER
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Finding An Optimal Strategy For Mastermind

  5:15-5:30pm ZHIBIAO ZHAO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  An Introduction to Voronoi Tessellation

 

WINTER 2004 Mini-workshop Presentations

  TUESDAY, February 24, 2004 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  QI AN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Calibration of Atmospheric Temperature

WINTER 2004 Master's Presentations

  FRIDAY, January 9, 2004 at 10:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  RUSSELL WIERZBA
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  A Comprehensive Model for Bond Portfolio Risk Management


  TUESDAY, February 24, 2004 at 2:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  QI AN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Calibration of Atmospheric Temperature
  This talk is also being presented as a Mini-Workshop presentation.

WINTER 2004 Practice Job Presentation

  FRIDAY, January 30, 2004 at 10:30 AM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  RITUPARNA SEN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Modeling the Stock Price Process as a Continuous-time Discrete Jump Process

AUTUMN 2003 Mini-workshop Presentations

  WEDNESDAY, November 19, 2003,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  9:30 am ELLIOT BERNSTEIN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Generative Models for Handwritten Digit Recognition in the Presence of Noise

  1:30 pm ETHAN ANDERES
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Estimating Deformations of Isotropic Random Fields

  3:30 pm MAOXIA ZHENG
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Assessment of Goodness of Fit of Models for Block Haplotype Structure

 


  THURSDAY, November 20, 2003,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  10:30 am MIKYOUNG JUN
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Space-time Modeling of Air Pollution Levels

  3:00 pm HAE KYUNG IM
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Inverse Modeling of Ammonia Emissions for the Eastern United States

  


   FRIDAY, December 5, 2003, at 1:30 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

  ROBERT ADAM MOLNAR
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Bayesian Neural Networks and Variable Selection

 

AUTUMN 2003 Ph.D. Presentations

  THURSDAY, October 2, 2003, at 3:00 PM, Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue

 
  MARTIN ROMERO
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago   
  "Optimal Bridge Sampling with Dependent Draws."


  WEDNESDAY, December 10, 2003, at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue


  PETER BOUMAN
  Department