Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are from 12:00-1:15 in Rm. 903 School of Social Work Building. Lunch starts at 11:45a in room 903.
If you're interested in presenting in the seminar, please contact Tyler. Visitors are welcome! If you're not a statistics department faculty member or doctoral student please contact Tyler at least one week in advance so arrangements can be made for lunch.
Semester Schedule
September 9
-Welcome and introductions
-Columbia statistics student life discussion
September 17 (Thursday), Special time: 1:00-2:15pm
-To Explain or To Predict? (Abstract)
-Galit Shmueli, University of Maryland
September 23
-Transitioning from Coursework to Research Discussion
-Faculty Speakers
September 30
-A Stochastic Memoizer for Sequence Data (Abstract)
-Frank Wood, Columbia University (Bio)
October 5 (Monday), Special time: 4:00-5:15pm
-Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University (Abstract)
October 12 (Monday), Special time: 4:00-5:15pm
-Detecting Hidden Effects in High Dimensions (Abstract)
-Stephan Morgenthaler, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
October 15 (Thursday), Special time: 1:00-2:15pm
-Internship Panel
-Student Speakers
October 19 (Monday), Special time: 4:00-5:15pm
-Donald Rubin, Harvard University
October 28
-Jake Hofman, Yahoo Research
November 4
-Academic job market discussion
-Faculty Speakers
November 11
-Nicholas Bartlett
-Petr Novotny
November 18
-Ragnheidur Haraldsdottir
-Emilio Seijo
November 25
-Holiday, no seminar
December 2
-Andrew Knight, The Wharton School
December 9
-Logistic Regression, Maximum Entropy, Discrete Choice, and All That (Abstract)
-David D. Lewis, David D. Lewis Consulting
