VIGRE Seminar
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Schedule
Schedule
Sep 9: Considering graduate school
Colette Patt, Director, Science Student Diversity Programs, UC Berkeley
Sep. 16: Graduate Student Panel
Graduate students in Statistics and Biostatistics will share their
insights and perspectives
Sep 23: Design of association studies with next-generation sequencing
Suyeon Kim, Postdoctoral researcher, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
Sep 30: TV ad quality
Yannet Interian, Quantitative Analyst, Google
Oct. 7: Network models and optimal experimental design
Fergal Casey, University of College Dublin
Oct. 14: Machine Learning and Statistics in the Real Online World
Alexander L. Strehl, Facebook
Oct. 21: An excess of rare deleterious mutations revealed by deep resequencing of 200 human exomes
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, UC Berkeley
Oct. 28: Requirements for this course
Nov. 4: Title to be announced
Megan Goldman, UC Berkeley
Nov. 11: Academic holiday
Nov. 18: Youtube ad quality
Sundar Dorai-Raj, Google
Nov. 25: Class Canceled
Dec. 2: Title to be announced
Dec. 9: 3 page annotated bibliography due today by 11:10 am
Description
Time: 11-12pm Wednesdays
Place: 1011 Evans Hall
Course: STAT 98.1, 2 units or STAT 198.1, 2 units; Pass/Fail.
Coordinators: Megan Goldman 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 the last Wednesday of class. The paper should be an
annotated bibliography of 5 references associated with one of the topics presented and it is due on Wednesday, Dec. 9 by 11:10am . 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.
Sometimes 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.