Summer/Fall 2020 Webinars on Statistical Methods in the Physical Sciences
Hosted by the STAMPS research group at CMU
Program Committee: Mikael Kuusela, Ann B. Lee, Larry Wasserman
Coordinator and Webmaster: Nic Dalmasso
Webinar recordings are available on our Youtube channel here
A Google Calendar for webinars is available here
July 10: Adam Sykulski (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University) #
Title: Stochastic modeling of the ocean using drifters: The Lagrangian perspective
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Aug 14: Tommaso Dorigo (INFN-Padova) #
Title: Frequentist Statistics, the Particle Physicists’ Way: How To Claim Discovery or Rule Out Theories
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Sept 11: Parker Holzer (Department of Statistics & Data Science, Yale University) #
Title: Discovering Exoplanets With Hermite-Gaussian Linear Regression
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Oct 9: Amy Braverman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) #
Title: Post-hoc Uncertainty Quantification for Remote Sensing Observing Systems
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Oct 23: Collin Politsch (Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University) #
Title: Three-dimensional cosmography of the high redshift Universe using intergalactic absorption
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Nov 13: Murali Haran (Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University) #
Title: Statistical Methods for Ice Sheet Model Calibration
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Note: December’s webinar will be held on the 1st Friday (Dec. 4), instead of the 2nd
Dec 4: Jenni Evans (Department of Meteorology & Atmospheric Science, Pennsylvania State University) #
Title: Unscrambling ensemble simulations to improve hurricane forecasts
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