January 19
Organizational meeting. Starts at 1:30 pm.

January 26
Speaker: Qiqing Yu
Topic: The Marginal Distribution Approach for Testing Independence and Goodness-of-Fit in Linear Models
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February 2
Speaker: Anton Schick
Topic: Weighted least squares estimation with missing responses: An empirical likelihood approach
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February 9
Speaker: Grigory Sokolov
Topic:Change-point detection in sensor networks
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February 16
Speaker: Ganggang Xu
Topic:TBD
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February 23
capstone seminar

March 2
capstone seminar

March 9
Speaker: Seth Spain (School of Management, Binghamton University)
Topic: Gauss is not mocked: Distributions of Individual Job Performance
Abstract

March 16
capstone seminar

March 23
Speaker: Jiwei Zhao (SUNY-Buffalo)
Topic: Penalized pairwise pseudo likelihood for variable selection with nonignorable missing data
Abstract

March 30
Speaker: Ruiqi Liu (Admission-to-candidacy Exam)
Topic: Panel data and the binary choice model with group structure
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April 6
Speaker: Yuexiao Dong (Temple University)
Topic: Model-Free Variable Selection with Matrix-Valued Predictors
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April 20
The usual time slot at 1:15 pm is loaned to the Data Science seminar. There is also an admission to candidacy exam using the colloquium time at 4:30 pm. See below.

April 20
Speaker: Wenbo Wang (Admission-to-candidacy Exam)
Time: 4:25–5:40 pm (note the special time)
Topic: Flexible Classification Methods with Confidence
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April 27
Speaker: Konstantin Mischaikow (Rutgers University)
Topic: Nonlinear Dynamics, High Dimensional Data, and Persistent Homology
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May 2 (note this is Tuesday)
Speaker: Lin Yao
Time: 1:30–3 pm (special time)
Location: WH 329 (special location)
Topic: James-Stein Type Optimal Weight Choice for Frequentist Model Average Estimator
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May 4 (4:40 pm)
Speaker: Mohsen Pourahmadi (Texas A&M University)
Topic: Stationary Subspace Analysis & Brain-Computer Interface
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