Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics
Fall 2024
SMAC talks are held each Friday during fall and spring semesters from 10:10 AM to 11:00 AM in 327 Thomas Building and on Zoom. Talks last 40 minutes, with time for clarification questions. The last 10 minutes are for open-ended discussion.
The general guidelines for each talk:
- 40 minutes for each talk + 10 minutes for discussion.
- The talk should be accessible to all grad students who have completed 1 year of the program.
- Informal style. For instance, chalk and blackboard talks are welcome.
- Interruptions during the talk are welcome but they should only be for clarifications; longer questions are to be left to the discussion period.
- Unpublished work may not be shared or discussed outside the group without the permission of the speaker/author.
- While a large proportion of the talks may be related to stochastic modeling and computing, a much broader list of topics have also been discussed in this series.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9/6/24 |
Shaun Mahony Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Interpreting and predicting transcription factor binding patterns using neural networks |
| 9/13/24 |
Thomas Stewart Assistant Professor of Biology |
Analyzing the growth and plasticity of fin rays |
| 9/20/24 |
Filippo Salmaso Sant'Anna Institute |
How Disaggregation Helps Policy Evaluation |
| 9/27/24 |
Colin Zarzycki Associate Professor of Meteorology and Climate Dynamics |
TBA |
| 10/4/24 |
Olivia Beck PhD Student in Statistics |
TBA |
| 10/11/24 |
Ashwin Renganathan Penn State Aerospace Engineering |
TBA |
| 10/18/24 |
Jordan Bryan Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
TBA |
| 10/25/24 |
Yin Tang PhD Student in Statistics |
TBA |
| 11/1/24 | TBA | TBA |
| 11/8/24 |
Tushar Mittal Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences |
TBA |
| 11/15/24 |
Henry Scharf Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics at the University of Arizona |
TBA |
| 11/22/24 |
Kyle Stanley PhD Student in Statistics |
TBA |
| 11/29/24 | Thanksgiving: No Talk | |
| 12/6/24 |
Jenny Van Hook Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography |
TBA |
| 12/13/24 | Last Week of Semester: No Talk |
A look back at previous SMAC TALKS.