Bohrer Workshop – Nov 14

Bohrer Workshop

Nov 14, 2013

1005 Beckman Institute

http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1439?eventId=30453061

1:00 – 1:20 Srijan Sengupta Spectral Clustering in Heterogeneous Networks Using the Stochastic Blockmodel
1:20 – 1:40 Jin Wang Approximate Algorithms for Bayesian Variable Selection
1:40 – 2:00 Dan Sewell Latent Space Models for Dynamic Networks
2:00 – 2:05

Short Break

2:05 – 2:25 Xuan Bi Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Longitudinal Data
2:25 – 2:45 Yeonwoo Rho Unit Root Testing with Piecewise Locally Stationary Errors
2:45-3:15 Sky Andrecheck Statistics and Sabermetrics: Advanced Analytics inside Major League Baseball
3:15-3:45

Break for refreshments and presentation of awards

3:45 – 4:15 Jingfei Zhang,

Norton Prize WinnerStructure Detection in Networks4:15 – 5:00Yuhong Yang,

Bohrer SpeakerModel Selection, Model Combining, and Rate of Convergence for High-Dimensional Regression