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Dr. Sujit Ghosh to Speak at 2026 UGA/Clemson Colloqium

Title: Are We There Yet? A Probabilistic Journey to Global Optima Abstract: Global optimization over non-convex landscapes is notoriously difficult—akin to a long road trip with no map, no gradients, and lots of local distractions. Traditional algorithms, including many metaheuristics, often struggle with high dimensionality, sensitivity to initial conditions, or inaccessibility of derivative information—frequently converging to suboptimal…


The 75th Joint Clemson-UGA Colloquium

Be sure to join us for the 75th Joint Clemson-UGA Colloquium, featuring Dr. Xiao-Li Meng. Honors and Awards: Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, Harvard UniversityFounding Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Data Science ReviewMember of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2001 Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies AwardAmerican Statistical Association Founders AwardInaugural ICSA Pao-Lu Hsu AwardInstitute of Mathematical Statistics…


Ansu Chatterjee

Bayesian and machine learning frameworks for studying climate anomalies and social conflicts Abstract Climate change stands to have a profound impact on human society, and on political and other conflicts in particular. However, the existing literature on understanding the relation between climate change and societal conflicts has often been criticized for using data that suffer from sampling and other biases, often resulting from being too…


2023 Clemson-UGA Joint Colloquium

Do statisticians have labs? Introduction to the Precision Medicine Artificial Intelligence Lab (PHAIR) Event Slides Abstract: In this talk, I discuss a non-traditional approach to statistics training through the use of a virtual lab structure. For over a decade, the Precision Health Artificial Intelligence lab gradually evolved from an informal meeting for a few students engaged in similar research topics to a large virtual lab with about 30…


Ghost Data

Biography Dr. Dennis K. J. Lin is a University Distinguished Professor and Head of the Statistics Department at Purdue University. His research interests are quality assurance, industrial statistics, data mining, and data science. He has published near 250 SCI/SSCI papers in a wide variety of journals. He currently serves or has served as associate editor for more than 10 professional journals and was co-editor for Applied Stochastic Models for…


2019 UGA/Clemson Joint Seminar

On Some New Classes of Disease Mapping Models Hierarchical models for regionally aggregated disease incidence data commonly involve region specific latent random effects that are modelled jointly as having a multivariate Gaussian distribution. The covariance or precision matrix incorporates the spatial dependence between the regions. Common choices for the precision matrix include the widely used intrinsic conditional autoregressive model, which…


Past UGA/Clemson Joint Seminars

Past/History UGA/Clemson Joint Seminars


2007 UGA/Clemson Joint Seminar

Heavy Tails and Financial Time Series Models


2008 UGA/Clemson Joint Seminar

Motivation and Convergence of Two "New" Fast Algorithms for Estimating the Mixing Distribution in Mixture Models


2009 UGA/Clemson Joint Seminar

Ultrahigh Dimensional Variable Selection: Beyond the Linear Model
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