On Apr 23th, Prof.Chao Pan from Purdue University Visited the Center and Gave a Talk Titled Systems and Platforms for Big Data Statistical Analsis.
On Apr 18th, Prof. Dag Tjøstheim from Universitetet i Bergen Visited the Center and Gave a Talk Titled Local Gaussian approximation: Theory and applications.
On Apr 7th, Prof.Qiwei Yao from The London School of Economics and Political Science Visits the Center and Gave a Talk Titled Kriging Over Space and Time Based on a Latent Reduced Rank Structure.
On March 14th, Prof.Yu Zhu from Purdue University Visited the Center and Gave a Talk Titled Optimal Kernel Group Transformation.
On Dec.21, 2015, Porfessor Ping Ma from University of Georgia visited the Center and gave a talk entitled “Analyzing Twitter Data via Smoothing Spline ANOVA”, introduced his recent work in this field.
With the support of Tsinghua University and the colleagues of statistical academia, the Center for Statistical Science have made continues progress in talents introduction and discipline construction since June 2015. To map out a plan for the future development, the center held the Development Planning Symposium on Dec. 12, 2015. More than 20 senior statisticians attended and gave many valuable ideas and suggestions.
Dec. 17, 2015, Associate Professor, Steve Qin, from Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics from Emory University visited the Center and gave a talk entitled “Improving hierarchical models using historical data with applications to microarray data analysis”, introduced his recent work in this field.
Dec. 14, 2015, Full Prof. Hongyu Zhao from Department of Biostatistics of Yale University visited the Center and gave a talk entitled “Inference of drug target pathways through joint analysis of diverse high throughput data sets”, introduced his recent work in this field.
Dec. 7, 2015, Associate Prof. Fan Li from Department of Statistical Science of Duke University visited the Center and gave a talk entitled “Weighting beyond Horvitz-Thompson in Causal Inference”.
Dec. 7, 2015, Assistant Prof. Peng Ding form Department of Statistics of UC Berkeley visited the Center and gave a talk entitled “Sharp sensitivity bounds for mediation under unmeasured mediator-outcome confounding”, introduced basic principle of causal inference and his recent work in this field.
