Leading biostatisticians and scholars are featured in our weekly department seminar series which covers a wide range of topics, issues and methods relevant to the field of biostatistics.
Autumn Seminars
Seminars are usually held Thursdays from 3:30-5:00 p.m. PDT unless otherwise listed. Check our calendar for upcoming dates and times.
Autumn 2024 Seminar Recordings
Links to seminar recordings will be posted 1-2 days after the seminar (providing permission has been given to record).
Topics in proximal causal inference presented September 26, 2024 by Kendrick Li, PhD, Assistant Faculty Member, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Advancing Health at the Speed of AI presented October 3, 2024 by Hoifung Poon, PhD, General Manager, Health Futures, Microsoft
Multi-task Learning for Gaussian Graphical Regressions with High Dimensional Covariates presented October 10, 2024, by Yi Li, PhD, M. Anthony Schork Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics; Professor, Global Public Health, University of Michigan
Design Sensitivity and Its Implications for Weighted Observational Studies presented October 17, 2024, by Sam Pimentel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of California Berkeley
Improving estimates of brain connectivity in autism spectrum disorder presented October 24, 2024 by Benjamin Risk, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Statistical Analysis of Spatial Proteomics: Investigating the Mysteries of Space and TIME presented October 31, 2024 by Michael Wu, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics Program, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch Cancer Center