Graduate Student Research Seminar Series

Time: Mondays 11:45 - 1:00 pm

Place: Reuben-Cooke Building 130

Instructor: Merlise Clyde clyde@duke.edu

Fall Schedule

Date	Moderator	Speaker	Title
28 Aug	Kat Husar	Carol Wang	Tree Boosting for Conditional Density Estimation
		Zeki Kazan	Prior-itizing Privacy: A Bayesian Approach to Setting the Privacy Budget in Differential Privacy
4 Sep	Labor Day
	No Talks
11 Sep	Bennedetta Bruni	Justin Weltz	Experimental Designs for Heteroskedastic Variance
		Devin Johnson	Comparison and Bayesian Estimation of Feature Allocations
18 Sep	Houjie Wang	Irene Ji	Bayesian Fault Localization for Software Testing
		Olivier Binette	Feedback-Driven ML: A Proposal for Harnessing Subject-Matter Expertise in the Model Development Cycle
25 Sep	Bonjung Sung	Betsy Bersson	Optimal Prediction Sets for Describing Uncertainty in Categorical Data
		Michael Christensen	An Eclectic Overview of MCMC Tricks and Tools for Sampling from Tricky Posteriors
2 Oct	Faculty Meeting
	No Talks
9 Oct	Leah Johnson	Yunran Chen	Block Covariance Matrices Estimation
		Rihui Ou	Scalable Bayesian Inference for Time Series via Divide-and-Conquer
16 Oct	Fall Break
	No Talks
23 Oct	Aihua Li	Keru Wu	Minimax Mixing Time of the Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Algorithm for Log-Concave Sampling
		Joseph Lawson	Bayesian Ensembling for Contextual Bandit Models”
30 Oct	Suchismita Roy	Xiaojun Zheng	BLAST: Bayesian Online Structure-aware Change-point Detection
		Raphaël Morsomme	Data-augmentation Markov chain Monte Carlo for fitting semi-Markov breast cancer models to individual screens
6 Nov	Faculty Meeting
	No Talks
13 Nov	Caitrin Murphy	Brian Kundinger	Variational Beta Linkage
		Ed Tam	A Fast Spanning Tree Sampler
20 Nov	Lorenzo Mauri	Andrea Aveni	Rankings
		Youngsoo Baek	Generalized Bayes Approach to Inverse Problems with Model Misspecification
27 Nov	Yen-Chun Liu	Alexander Dombowsky	Product Centered Dirichlet Processes for Dependent Clustering
		Rick Presman	Constrained Estimation via Projected Mirror Descent
4 Dec	Faculty Meeting
	No Talks

Spring Schedule

Date	Moderator	Speaker	Title	abstract
15 Jan	MLK Holiday
	No Talks
22 Jan	Hold for Search
29 Jan	Hold for Search
5 Feb	Faculty Meeting
	No Talks
12 Feb	Piotr Suder	Joe Mathews
		Emily Tallman
19 Feb	Yueqi Guo	Jennifer Kampe
		Bo Liu
26 Feb	Luke Vrotsos	Yuren Zhou
		Steve Winter
4 Mar	Faculty Meeting
	No Talks
11 Mar	Spring Break
	No Talks
18 Mar	Shuo Wang	Kevin Li
		Christine Shen
25 Mar	Jaehoan Kim	Glenn Palmer
		Cathy Lee
1 Apr	Faculty Meeting
	No Talks
8 Apr	Gyeonghun Kang	Riccardo Rossetti
		John Miller
15 Apr	Neubrander, Marie	Nathan Varberg
		Sam Rosen
22 Apr	Reading Period
	No Talks