2025 Seminars

Bayesian Modeling in Neuroimaging: Brain Networks Dynamics
Date: April 25, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Michele Guindani; Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Affiliation: Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles

Optimal Designs for Two-Stage Inference
Date: April 18, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Jon Stallrich, Associate Professor of Statistics
Affiliation: North Carolina State University

Vulnerability Webs: Systemic Risk in Software Networks
Date: April 11, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Angelo Mele, Associate Professor of Economics
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University

A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach for Evaluating the Causal Effect of Treatment in Observational Cohort Studies with Semi-Competing Risks
Date: April 4, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Michael Daniels; Professor and Andrew Banks Family Endowed Chair, Department of Statistics
Affiliation: University of Florida

On Bayesian Approaches to Brain Activity Mapping with Complex-Values fMRI Data
Date: March 28, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Brown, Associate Professor of Statistics
Affiliation: Clemson University

Estimation of Finite Population Proportions for Small Areas — A Statistical Data Integration Approach
Date: February 28, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Partha Lahiri, Professor of Survey Methodology and Mathematics
Affiliation: University of Maryland College Park

Designing Your Future: A Conversation with Quincy K. Brown
Date: February 21, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Quincy K. Brown, American Computer Scientist
Affiliation: Former Senior Policy Advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Euclidean Mirrors and First-Order Changepoints in Network Time Series
Date: February 14, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Zachary Lubberts, Assistant Professor of Statistics
Affiliation: University of Virginia

“Wrong, but Useful”: Enriching the Behavioral Complexity in Agent-Based Models of Infectious Disease Spread
Date: February 7, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Taylor Anderson, Assistant Professor of Geography & Geoinformation Science
Affiliation: George Mason University

Hierarchical Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Multi-Pathogen Transmission of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
Date: January 24, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Nikolay Bliznyuk, Associate Professor of Statistics
Affiliation: University of Florida