VIGRE Seminar
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Schedule
Schedule
Aug 27: Organizational meeting
Sep 3: Considering graduate school
Colette Patt, Director, Science Student Diversity Programs, UC Berkeley
Sep 10: Data, Data, Everywhere: Learning from the Web to
Improve the Web Search
Carrie Grimes, Google
Sep 17: The Power of Shame and the Rationality of Trust
A copy of the paper may be found
here.
Steven Tadelis, Haas Business School, UC Berkeley
Sep 24: What do we know about the average length of human
life throughout the world, and how do we know it?
John Wilmoth, Associate Professor, Department of Demography, UC Berkeley
Oct. 1: Graduate Student Panel
Graduate students in Statistics and Biostatistics will share their
insights and perspectives
Oct. 8 Students enrolled for the class need
to come today to get more specifics about the paper due at the
end of the semester.
Oct. 15 Data Analysis at Facebook
Alex Smith, Facebook.
Oct. 22 RAND Corporation
Lauren Caston
Oct. 29: We Measure America: the Census Bureau in the 21st
Century.
Linda Clark, Information Services Specialist, US Census Bureau
Nov. 5: The Role of Statisticians in Quantitative
Finance Before and After the Crash
Lisa Goldberg, Department of Statistics and MSCIBARRA
Nov. 12: Phylogenetics: Using mathematics and
Statistics to deduce evolutionary history
Erick Matsen, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Nov. 19 RAND Corporation
Lauren Caston
Nov. 26 NO Seminar this week
Dec. 3 Data Analysis at Facebook
Alex Smith, Facebook.
Description
Time: 11-12pm Wednesdays
Place: 1011 Evans Hall
Course: STAT 98.1, 2 units or STAT 198.1, 2 units; Pass/Fail.
Course Control Numbers: 87417 (STAT 98) / 87501 (STAT 198)
Coordinators: Nicholas Crawford and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
Course Description: The purpose of this seminar series is to give students a view of
career possibilities in statistics, including research areas
and areas of application in academia, government, and the private
sector. Speakers include faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and
statisticians working for government and in the private sector.
Course Details:
As this course carries credit,there will be a nominal amount of course
work. A three page paper will be due on November 29th. The paper should be an
annotated bibliography of 5 references associated with one of the topics presented. We
encourage the inclusion of supporting articles, but these won't count towards the three
page requirement. The idea is to compile these papers into a packet for distribution to
those enrolled and to be kept on file in the Undergraduate Office.
Grading for the course is P/NP.
Besides the aforementioned small research project, regular attendance is required. Students are expected to
miss no more than 2 seminars over the semester.
Cookies, coffee, and other assorted beverages will be served.
We will hold an organizational meeting during the first meeting time:
Wednesday, August 29, outside 1011 Evans.