UofA Virtual Winter Statistics Seminar 2021

Date Time Speaker Title (click for recording)
13 Jan 12pm MST Roger Koenker, University College London Invidious Comparisons: Ranking and Selection as Compound Decisions (link to arXiv article)
20 Jan --- cancelled ---
27 Jan 5pm MST Arlene Kim, Korea University Global rates of convergence in scale mixtures of uniform density estimation
3 Feb --- cancelled ---
10 Feb 12pm MST Antonio Punzo, University of Catania On the use of the multivariate contaminated normal distribution in clustering based on mixture models
17 Feb --- Reading Week ---
24 Feb 12pm MST Jeff Andrews, UBC Okanagan On weighted mixture of mixtures and fuzzy cluster agreement
3 Mar 5pm MST Daisuke Kurisu, Tokyo Institute of Technology Spatially dependent wild bootstrap for high-dimensional spatial data
10 Mar 12pm MST David Campbell, Carleton University Overcoming Statistical Challenges from Multimodal Likelihoods
17 Mar 9am MDT Laura Sangalli, Politecnico di Milano Functional and complex data – new methods merging statistics, scientific computing and engineering
24 Mar 9am MDT Davide Pigoli, King's College London Kriging prediction for manifold-valued data
31 Mar 12 MDT Michael Gallaugher, Baylor University Cluster Weighted Modeling with Skewed Distributions
7 Apr 9am MDT Shahin Tavakoli, University of Warwick Factor Models for High Dimensional Functional Time Series
14 Apr 9am MDT March Boedihardjo, UCLA The spectral norm of Gaussian matrices with correlated entries