THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Statistics Graduate Student Research Day Models for Dependent Data April 19, 2012 Location: Morning, Fields Institute, Rm 230 Afternoon, Bahen Rm 1170 Organizing Committee: Ramya Thinniyam,Cody Severinski (Co-chairs) Andriy Derkach, Avideh Sabeti, Ruslan Salakhutdinov Chunyi Wang, Ximing Xu, Zhou Zhou Department of Statistics, University of Toronto

Overview

Graduate Statistics Research Day is an annual student initiative supported by the Department of Statistics, University of Toronto and Statistics Graduate Student Union.

This year's theme is Models for Dependent Data. Assumptions that used to be common-place in statistics, such as independence, are becoming less and less common as technology allows for inference in models that better capture dependence in the data. Research Day 2012 will explore some of these models, and how they can be applied to several fields.

Keynote speakers

Michael Jordan, University of California Berkeley
David Dunson, Duke University
Marina Meila, University of Washington

Panelists include the above keynote speakers and Alison Gibbs & Jeffrey Rosenthal, University of Toronto.

Student Speakers:
Andriy Derkach, Department of Statistics
Paul Nguyen, Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Nitish Srivastava, Department of Computer Science

 

Agenda

8:30 a.m.	On-site Registration and Morning coffee at the Fields Institute, 222 College Street (map)
9:00 a.m.	Welcome Address: Dr. James Stafford (Professor & Statistics Chair), Ramya Thinniyam (Ph.D. Candidate & Co-chair of Research Day), Cody Severinski (Ph.D. Candidate & Co-chair of Research Day)
9:15 a.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Michael Jordan (Department of EECS and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley ) At the Interface of Statistics and Computation: A Scalable Bootstrap, Matrix Completion and Stein's Method (audio)
10:20 a.m.	Andriy Derkach (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto) Robust Association Tests for Rare Genetic Variants (audio)
10:40 a.m.	Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Marina Meila (Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington) (Bayesian) Statistics with Rankings (audio) (slides)
12:00 p.m.	Nitish Srivastava (M.Sc. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto) Multimodal Learning with Deep Belief Nets
12:20 p.m.	Lunch (provided) at Fields
AFTERNOON AGENDA Change of Venue Afternoon talks will be at the Bahen Centre, Room 1170 (directly behind Fields)
1:20 p.m.	Paul Nguyen (Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Cancer Care Ontario) Mapping Cancer Risk in Southwestern Ontario with Changing Census Boundaries
1:40 p.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER: David Dunson (Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University) Nonparametric Bayesian Learning from Big Data
2:40 p.m.	Coffee Break
2:55 p.m.	Panel Discussion Drs. Michael Jordon, Marina Meila, David Dunson, Alison Gibbs, Jeffrey Rosenthal
4:00 p.m.	Closing Remarks Dr. James Stafford (Professor & Statistics Chair), Ramya Thinniyam (Ph.D. Candidate & Co-chair of Research Day), Cody Severinski (Ph.D. Candidate & Co-chair of Research Day)

List of Attendees

Full Name	University Name
Aslemand, Asal	University of Toronto
Ba, Lei	University of Toronto
Badescu, Andrei	University of Toronto
Bonner, Anthony J.	University of Toronto
Cai, Eric	University of Toronto
Chen, Lichen	University of Waterloo
Chen, Yingying	University of Waterloo
Chua, Jeroen	University of Toronto
Craiu, Radu	University of Toronto
Derkach, Andriy	University of Toronto
Dunson, David	Duke University
Elprince, Noha	University of Waterloo
Evans, Mike	University of Toronto
Feuerverger, Andrey	University of Toronto
Firka, Daniel	University of Toronto
Gibbs, Alison	University of Toronto
Goldenberg, Anna	University of Toronto/SickKids Research Institute
Gray, Derrick	University of Toronto
Hoang, Uyen	University of Toronto
Jaimungal, Sebastian	University of Toronto
Jaitly, Navdeep	University of Toronto
Ji, Jia	University of Toronto
Jordan, Michael I.	University of California, Berkeley
Kenne Pagui, Euloge Clovis	University of Padova
Koudstaal, Mark	University of Toronto
Lawless, Jerry	University of Waterloo
Lei, Edwin	University of Toronto
Li, Yujia	University of Toronto
Lin, Wei	University of Toronto
Lin, X. Sheldon	University of Toronto
Meila, Marina	University of Washington
Mezlini, Mohamed Aziz	University of Toronto
Moshonov, Hadas	University of Toronto
Neal, Radford	University of Toronto
Nguyen, Paul	University of Toronto
Reid, Nancy	University of Toronto
Rosenthal, Jeffrey	University of Toronto
Sabeti, Avideh	University of Toronto
Salakhutdinov, Ruslan	University of Toronto
Severinski, Cody	University of Toronto
Shestopaloff, Alexander	University of Toronto
Srivastava, Nitish	University of Toronto
Stafford, James	University of Toronto
Tanha, Azadeh	University of Toronto
Thinniyam, Ramya	University of Toronto
Tilahun, Gelila	University of Toronto
Wang, Bo	University of Toronto
Wang, Chunyi	University of Toronto
Wang, Daoxing	University of Waterloo
Wang, Tao	McMaster University
Wu, Panpan	University of Toronto
Wu, Weichi	University of Toronto
Xu, Ximing	University of Toronto
Yao, Fang	University of Toronto
Zhang, Xueshan	University of Waterloo
Zhou, Zhou	University of Toronto

 

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