Date:

10 December 2019, Tuesday

Location:

S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

The Functional Breuer-Major Theorem

PROFESSOR IVAN NOURDIN
Universite du Luxembourg Maison du Nombre, France

Date:

06 December 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Competing Risk Data from Repairable Systems

PROFESSOR ANUPAP SOMBOONSAVATDEE
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Date:

27 November 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Competing Risks – Issues, Challenges, and Approaches

PROFESSOR ANANDA SEN
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Date:

13 November 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

On the Consistency of AIC and BIC in Estimating the Number of Significant Components in High-Dimensional Principal Component Analysis and Multivariate Linear Regressio

PROFESSOR CHOI KWOK PUI
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND APPLIED PROBABILITY, NUS

Date:

23 October 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

Estimation of Gini Index Under Different Sampling Schemes: A Sequential Approach

PROFESSOR BHARGAB CHATTOPADHYAY
Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

Date:

21 October 2019, Monday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Regeneration-enhanced Markov processes and application to Monte Carlo

MR ANDI WANG
University of Oxford

Date:

06 September 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-03-04, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

Species Abundance Information Improves Sequence Taxonomy Classification Accuracy

DR. BENJAMIN KAEHLER
University of New South Wales Canberra

Date:

04 September 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-16-118 , DSAP Seminar Room, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

On Bivariate Extreme Value Copulas with Polynomial Dependence Functions

PROFESSOR BERWIN A TURLACH
School of Mathematics and Statistics (M019) The University of Western Australia

Date:

30 August 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

A Statistical Test to Identify Shared Genetic Variants Between Disease Outcomes: An Application to GWAS of Cleft Subtypes

PROFESSOR DEBASHREE RAY
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Date:

26 August 2019, Monday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

A Simple Model for Complex Spatio-Temporal Data

PROFESSOR LUIGI IPPOLITI, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
University G. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, ITALY

Date:

26 August 2019, Monday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

A Simple Model for Complex Spatio-Temporal Data

PROFESSOR LUIGI IPPOLITI, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
University G. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, ITALY

Date:

26 August 2019, Monday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4, Faculty of Science

Time:

04:00PM to 05:00PM

A Hierarchical Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Model To Estimate the Short-term Effects of Air Pollution On Human Health

PROFESSOR PASQUALE VALENTINI
Department of Economics, University G. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, ITALY

Date:

26 August 2019, Monday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4, Faculty of Science

Time:

04:00PM to 05:00PM

A Hierarchical Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Model To Estimate the Short-term

PROFESSOR PASQUALE VALENTINI, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
University G. d’Annunzio Chieti-Pescara, ITALY

Date:

08 August 2019, Thursday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4, Faculty of Science

Time:

02:00PM to 03:00PM

Time Domain Astronomy: Statistical Issues

PROFESSOR G. JOGESH BABU
Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Astronomy & Astrophysics The Pennsylvania State University

Date:

24 July 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

Non-Convex Optimization Through Stochastic Gradient Descent, Phase Retrieval As A Case Study

PROF YAN SHUO TAN
University of California, Berkley

Date:

24 July 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-05-96, DSAP Computer Lab 4

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

Non-Convex Optimization Through Stochastic Gradient Descent, Phase Retrieval As A Case Study

PROF YAN SHUO TAN
University of California, Berkley

Date:

21 June 2019, Friday

Location:

E1-06-01, Faculty of Engineering, NUS

Time:

03:00PM to 04:00PM

Semiparametric Methods with Mixed Measurement Error and Misclassification in Covariates

PROFESSOR GRACE Y. YI
University of Waterloo

Date:

21 June 2019, Friday

Location:

E1-06-01, Faculty of Engineering, NUS

Time:

04:00PM to 05:00PM

Data Adaptive Support Vector Machine with Application to Prostate Cancer Imaging Data

PROFESSOR HE WENQING
University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

Date:

14 June 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Sequential Change-Point Procedures based on U-Statistics

DR CHRISTINA STOEHR
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Date:

30 May 2019, Thursday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Almost Sure and In Probability Convergence in Randomized Urn Model

PROFESSOR KRISHANU MAULIK
Stat-Math Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

Date:

17 May 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Change-Point Detection: Past and Present

PROFESSOR DAVID SIEGMUND
Stanford University

Date:

26 April 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-06-118, Statistics Seminar Room

Time:

02:00pm - 03:00pm

On Some Nonparametric Approaches For Detecting Variable Associations

MR ZENG XIANLI
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

Date:

17 April 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Optimal Change Point Detection and Localisation

DR YI YU
University of Bristol

Date:

05 April 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Intrinsic Riemannian Functional Data Analysis

PROFESSOR YAO FANG
Peking University

Date:

03 April 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Multiplier Processes in Statistics: A New Multiplier Inequality and Implications

PROFESSOR JON WELLNER
University of Washington & National University of Singapore

Date:

27 March 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Use of Model Reparametrization to Improve Variational Bayes

DR TAN SIEW LI LINDA
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

Date:

21 March 2019, Thursday

Location:

S16-05-96, Computer Lab4

Time:

04:00pm - 05:00pm

Statistical Challenges in Cyber Security

DR MARK BRIERS
Alan Turing Institute, UK

Date:

20 March 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Posterior Convergence Analysis of Alpha-Stable Processes: Applications in Bayesian Inversion

DR NEIL KUMAR CHADA
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

Date:

20 March 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-05-96, Lab 4

Time:

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Model Averaging For Longitudinal Covariance Estimation and Bayesian Nonparametric Regression

MS WANG JINGLI
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

Date:

15 March 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

The Hug and Hop Algorithm: Explicit, Non-Reversible, Contour-Hugging MCMC

DR MATTHEW LUDKIN
University of Lancaster

Date:

13 March 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Spatially Smooth Local Ensemble Transform Particle Filtering

DR GRAHAM, MATTHEW MCKENZIE
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

Date:

27 February 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Real World Data, Real World Evidence,

PROFESSOR TZE LEUNG LAI
Stanford University

Date:

27 February 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:30pm - 04:30pm

Constructing Stabilized Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Censored Data

PROFESSOR YINGQI ZHAO
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA

Date:

20 February 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Estimating ell_p and Schatten Norms in Data Stream Model

DR YI LI
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Date:

12 February 2019, Tuesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Total Variation Regularized Fréchet Regression and its Application

DR ZHENHUA LIN
University of California, Davis

Date:

08 February 2019, Friday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room, Faculty of Science

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Randomization-based Causal Inference from Split-plot Designs

DR ANQI ZHAO
Associate at McKinsey & Company (Shanghai)

Date:

30 January 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

High-Dimensional General Linear Hypothesis Tests via Spectral Shrinkage

DR LI HAORAN
University of California, Davis

Date:

23 January 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Sorted Concave Penalized Regression

DR FENG LONG
Yale University

Date:

23 January 2019, Wednesday

Location:

S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Sorted Concave Penalized Regression

DR FENG LONG
Yale University