Gradient-Free Construction of Active Subspaces for Dimension Reduction

Bayesian Subgroup Analysis

Dr. Satrajit Roychoudhury is a Senior Director and a member of Statistical Research and Innovation group in Pfizer Inc. Prior to joining, he was a member of Statistical Methodology and consulting group in Novartis. He started his career as a research statistician in Schering Plough Research Institute (now Merck Co.). He has 12+ years of extensive experience in working with different phases of clinical trial. His primary expertise includes implementation of innovative statistical methodology in clinical trial.

Each year, The UGA Graduate School seeks nominations for the annual Excellence in Research by Graduate Students awards to recognize the outstanding scholarship of our graduate students. Evaluation and selection are based upon the student’s overall scholarship/research activity, as presented in the materials in the nomination file and not necessarily only on the dissertation. Dr.

Dr. Brady T. West will be giving two talks. One will be at 3:30pm (see here) and the other will begin at 4:30pm (see here)

This award for excellence in teaching annually honors outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high quality instruction. Abhyuday is a very popular and successful instructor, as well as an outstanding mentor for students interested in undergraduate research or further study. He is a highly regarded supervisor of graduate student research and a valuable contributor to teaching-related outreach.

Agenda

3:30 - 4:00pm- Arrival 

4:00 - 5:00pm- Lecture, Dr. Art Owen, Stanford University

5:00 - 6:00pm- Happy Hour (light refreshments will be served)

6:00 - 8:00pm- Dinner and After-Dinner Talk, Dr. Art Owen, Stanford University

Takashi Owada is an assistant professor of Department of Statistics in Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a postdoc researcher at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and received his PhD in Operations Research at Cornell University. His research interests lie in random topology, topological data analysis, random graph theory, heavy tail probability, extreme value theory, and long range dependence. 

Robust Estimation under Huber's Contamination Model

This talk describes some new challenges and results in high-dimensional and nonparametric statistics under the celebrated Huber’s contamination model. We particularly focus on the influence of contamination on the minimax rates and the corresponding rate-optimal procedures.