Statistics Seminar
Statistics Seminar
The UTSA College of Business Department of Management Science and Statistics Seminar Series will take place on the following Fridays from 2-3 p.m. in the UTSA Business Building Room 3.02.16 (Statistics Lab). The seminar series is open to the public.
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| Jan. 25 | Francky Fouedjio Department of Geological Sciences Stanford University |
“Clustering of Multivariate Geostatistical Data” |
| February 22 | Corey Sparks UTSA Department of Demography |
“Bayesian Measurement Error Models in Demographic Analysis” |
| March 1 | Zhu Wang Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics UT Health San Antonio |
“Innovative Robust Boosting Algorithms” |
| March 22 | Debashis Mondal Department of Statistics Oregon State University |
“Markov Random Fields, Geostatistics, and Matrix-Free Computation” |
| March 29 | Daniela Cortes Departamento de Actuaria, Fisica y Matematics Universidad de las Américas Puebla |
“A Non-Parametric Way to Measure the Percentage of Smoothness in the Trend of a Univariate Time Series: An Application in a Time Series of Mexico’s GDP” |
| April 12 | Xiangrong Yin Department of Statistics University of Kentucky |
“Expected Conditional Characteristic Function-based Measures for Testing Independence” |
| April 19 | Wenbo Wu UTSA Department of Management Science and Statistics |
“Simultaneous Estimation for Semi-Parametric Multi-Index Models” |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| Sept. 7 | Long Liu UTSA Department of Economics |
“High Dimensional Econometrics and Identification” |
| Sept. 14 | Shouhuai Xu UTSA Department of Computer Science |
“Cybersecurity Data Analytics: Problems, Recent Results, and Research Directions” |
| Sept. 28 | Meng Li Rice University Department of Statistics |
“Quantile Regression for Functional Data and Time Series Forecasting” |
| Oct. 12 | Abhra Sarkar UT-Austin Department of Statistics and Data Science |
“Novel Statistical Frameworks for Analysis of Structured Sequential Data” |
| Oct. 19 | Yulia Gel UT-Dallas Department of Mathematical Science |
“On the the Role of Higher Order Topological Properties in Functionality of Complex Networks” |
| Nov. 2 | Jeffrey Hart Texas A&M University Department of Statistics |
“Prior-free Bayes Factors Based on Data Splitting” |
| Nov. 9 | Walter Richardson UTSA Department of Mathematics |
“Challenges in Modeling the Smart Grid and Deep Learning to Forecast Solar Irradiance” |
For more information, contact Professor Victor De Oliveira, seminar series organizer.
