FRG Biweekly Group Meeting: PI only meeting
This is the first meeting in Fall 2023 semester. The PIs from both UNC and UIC will meet and discuss research and collaboration plans.
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FRG Biweekly Group Meeting: PI only meeting
In this meeting, we will discuss the planned workshop at Casa Matematica Oaxaca (CMO), and possible follow-up workshops.
FRG Biweekly Meeting: No meeting this week, UNC Fall Break
There is no meeting this week. Enjoy the fall break.
FRG Informal Talk Series: Yichao Wu and Youhan Lu, UIC Dept. of Math, Stat, and CS.
2:00-2:10pm Lighting talk by Youhan Lu Title: A Unified Approach to Variable Selection for Partially Linear Models Abstract: We focus on the general partially linear model without any structure assumption on the nonparametric component. For such a model with both linear … Read more
FRG Biweekly Meeting: Shahar Kovalsky and Fengyu Yang, UNC Math
2:00-2:10pm Lighting Talk by Fengyu Yang 2:10-3:00pm Informal talk by Prof. Shahar Kovalsky Title: Two ongoing Projects (tentative) Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss two ongoing projects. The first project, led by Connor Magoon, focuses on developing neural networks … Read more
FRG Informal Talk Series: Andrew Liu and Wan Zhang
2:00-2:15pm Lighting talk by Andrew Liu Title: Public Perceptions of Synthetic Cooling Agents on Twitter Abstract: Amid a potential menthol ban, electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) companies are incorporating synthetic cooling agents like WS-3 and WS-23 to replicate menthol/mint sensations. This study examines … Read more
FRG Informal Talk Series: Ethan Wood and Yang Yang
2:00-2:20pm Lighting talk by Ethan Wood Title: Analyzing Arsenic and Water Quality with MaxBET Abstract: The United States Environmental Protection Agency published a paper and a dataset focusing on measured levels of arsenic in community water systems (CWS) per county … Read more
FRG Informal Talk Series: Maddy Vinal and Alex McAvoy
11:00-11:15am Lighting talk by Maddy Vinal Maddy Vinal Title: Hitting Probability Metric for the Analysis of Gene Expression Data on Directed Graphs Abstract: Metrics intended for undirected graphs, such as the shortest path distance and generalized effective resistance, are often used … Read more
FRG Informal Talk Series, Professor Daniel Yekutieli
Professor Daniel Yekutieli Department of Statistics and Operations Research School of Mathematical Sciences (Schreiber #207) Tel Aviv University Title: Distribution-Free Bayesian multivariate predictive inference Abstract: I will introduce a Bayesian multivariate predictive inference framework. The basis for this framework is a hierarchical … Read more
FRG Informal Talk Series, Professor Jeremy Marzuola
Professor Jeremy Marzuola Department of Mathematics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Title: New ideas on label propagation in networks Abstract: We will present some new ideas that is a work in progress on quantifying influence propagation in networks. … Read more
FRG Informal Talk Series, Prof. Can Chen, SDSS and Math
Professor Can Chen School of Data Science and Society (SDSS) and Department of Mathematics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Title: The Kronecker product of tensors Abstract: Tensors extend classic matrix theory to account for multiway relationships, which … Read more
FRG Informal Talk Series, Leyao Zhang, Biostatistics@UMich
Leyao Zhang Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan Title: Optimal monitoring of infectious disease and inference using a transitional prediction model Abstract: The effectiveness of tracking delta virus infected cases has been compromised by at-home COVID test kits. An … Read more