Approximate Kernel Principal Component Analysis: Computational vs. Statistical Trade-off

MAPS: Model-based analysis of long-range chromatin interactions from PLAC-seq and HiChIP

Jeevan Jankar is the winner of the 2020 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) student paper competition in the area of applications. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to statistics/biostatistics with a primary application focus. Jeevan got the award for his research on crossover designs for generalized linear models. Congratulations Jeevan!

Joseph Resch received the Kohler scholarship from Rutgers University, Department of Statistics, where he was recently admitted into the doctoral program starting Fall 2020. He also got admitted to the PhD programs of the Statistics departments of University of California, Los Angeles and Virginia Tech. He looks forward to pursuing his PhD in statistics. Previously Joseph was awarded the 2019 CURO Summer Fellowship. He is currently working with Dr. Mandal on inverse problem for dynamic computer simulators via multiple scalar-valued contour estimation.

Agenda

4:00 - 4:30pm - Arrival

4:30 - 4:35pm - Opening remarks by Associate Dean Thomas Mote, University of Georgia

4:35 - 5:30pm - Lecture, Dr. Jianqing Fan, Princeton University

5:30 - 6:00pm - Break

6:00 - 7:30pm - Dinner

7:30 - 7:35pm - Remarks by Dean Alan Dorsey, University of Georgia

7:35 - 8:00pm - After-Dinner Talk, Dr. Jianqing Fan, Princeton University