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Seminar Series
The Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics hosts a weekly seminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters of each academic year on Fridays, 11 AM – 12 PM in SPHIS 103 (unless otherwise noted). The seminar schedule below lists speakers for the upcoming semester and has links to abstracts for each seminar. Contact the seminar directors for more information. You can also look at the archived schedule to view speakers from past semesters.
Spring 2024 | Director: Mike Sekula, PhD, Dongfeng Wu, PhD |
1/26/2024 | |
Speaker: Fernanda Schumacher, PhD, Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Ohio State University | |
Title: "Scale Mixture of Skew-Normal Linear Mixed Models: a Bayesian approach using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo" | |
2/9/2024 | |
Speaker: James Belmonte, Staff Data Scientist – Causal Inference, Covera Health | |
Title: "Iterative Orthogonal Regression For The Identification Of Direct Effect Modifiers" | |
2/16/2024 | |
Speaker: Ashley Petersen, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota | |
Title: "Incorporating Inclusive Teaching Practices into a Graduate Biostatistics Course" | |
2/23/2024 | |
Speaker: Bryan Blette, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center | |
Title: "Practical Issues in Cluster-Randomized Trials: Missing Data and Assessing Assumptions" | |
3/1/2024 | |
Speaker: Douglas Darnowski, Ph.D., Sts Therese and Isidore Farm College | |
Title: "New Wet and Dry Carnivorous Plants: The First Carnivorous Seaweed and the First Dryland Pitcherplants" | |
3/8/2024 | |
Speaker: Jun Xie, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics, Purdue University | |
Title: "A Statistical Model for Causal Feature Representation" | |
3/29/2024 | |
Speaker: Wei-Wen Hsu, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine | |
Title: "A Novel Exponential Loss Function for Multiclass Classification with Complex Imbalanced Data" | |