Students will develop and practice an “elevator pitch” which highlights their unique experiences and skillsets for peers, mentors, and potential employers. They will also reflect on their… read more about Craft Your Personal “Elevator Pitch” & Set Professional Goals »
This is the first of three Department of Statistical Science Spring Registration information sessions for undergraduate students who are not yet majors or who have questions about our courses. … read more about Spring Registration Info Session »
I will discuss the use of a certain class of functional inequalities known as weak Poincaré inequalities to bound convergence of Markov chains to equilibrium. We show that this enables the… read more about Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC »
Attention to the carceral state has focused on its bookends: policing and sentencing. Between these bookends lies an under-researched but far-reaching "shadow" carceral state, a hybrid of criminal… read more about The Shadow Carceral State and Racial Inequality »
Ph.D. Student Career Panel read more about Ph.D. Student Career Panel »
Sampling from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions is a computationally challenging and fundamental task. This talk will focus on a generic family of random instances of such problems described… read more about Algorithmic Stochastic Localization for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model »
“MSS alumni will discuss their career trajectories and share tips and insights gained from their experiences" read more about Student Industry Career Panel »
The Minimized Aggregated Wasserstein (MAW) distance for Gaussian mixture models (GMM) has been used as a computationally efficient approximation to the Wasserstein metric. Recently, significant… read more about MAW Barycenter for Gaussian Mixture Models with Application to Multi-source Single-cell Data Integration »
Jeffrey Baker, Analytics Manager Jeff Baker is an Analytics Manager that has been working for Wells Fargo for 10 years. Jeff’s primary focus is exploring analytics through Business… read more about Wells Fargo Overview »
Gain insight on creating competitive applications for U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) funding proposals. Open to anyone interested in expanding funding sources. Registration optional. The U.S.… read more about Working With DOD Funding Agencies: A Program Officer's Perspective »
We propose an unsupervised tree boosting algorithm for inferring the underlying sampling distribution of an i.i.d. sample based on fitting additive tree ensembles in a fashion analogous to supervised… read more about Unsupervised tree boosting for learning probability distributions »
Second-year Statistical Science Master's Students will give lightning talks about their summer internship experiences. read more about Internship Lightning Talks »
Discrete data are abundant and often arise as counts or rounded data. These data commonly exhibit complex distributional features such as zero-inflation, over- or under-dispersion, boundedness, and… read more about Semiparametric discrete data regression with Monte Carlo inference and prediction »
In this resume writing workshop, students will learn how to write a resume that garners the attention of recruiters and hiring managers, while still being compliant with generally accepted principles… read more about Crafting an Effective Resume »
Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) is a prominent tool to characterize variability and reduce dimension of longitudinal and functional datasets. Bayesian implementations of FPCA are… read more about Bayesian Functional Principal Component Analysis using Relaxed Mutually Orthogonal Processes »
Senior majors interested in Graduation With Distinction? Juniors wanting an early start? Join us on Thursday, 8 September from 530 - 630 PM ET on Zoom for an information session about… read more about GWD Info Session for Statistical Science »
Liberty Mutual Overview Description: Liberty Mutual is a Fortune 100 company and currently has over 200 full-time data scientists supporting our organization. Every summer we hire 20-25 MS… read more about Liberty Mutual Overview »
All members of the Department of Statistical Science community are invited to join incoming MSS students for an ice cream social to kick off the new academic year. Please RSVP at this link. read more about Department of Statistical Science Ice Cream Social »
Syllabus Review and Career Resources read more about Syllabus Review and Career Resources »
Durham Bulls Athletic Park Incoming MSS students are invited to attend a Durham Bulls game vs. Nashville. Fireworks to follow the game! read more about MSS Night at the Durham Bulls »
Come celebrate the end of MSS Bootcamp and Orientation and meet your second-year mentor. read more about MSS “Meet Your Mentor” Social »
For MSS & Ph.D. students Welcome to the MSS Program – Dr. Funda Gunes, MSS Program Director Resources for Life at Duke and Durham – Megan Kelly Deyncourt, MSS Asst. Director & Lori Rauch,… read more about MSS Orientation & Joint Sessions »
Session for MSS & Ph.D. Students Welcome to the Department - Dr. Surya Tokdar, Department Chair Departmental Computing Resources - Zoyia Melton, Analyst, IT Sr. “Teaching Assistants, IORs,… read more about Department Welcome, Computing Resources, TA Information & Payroll Session »
Presentation for MSS and Ph.D. students read more about Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) and Office of Student Conduct (OSC) »
Session 1: Linear Algebra Session 2: Calculus and Session 3: Distributions Session 4: Probability Session 5: Inference Session 6: Bayesian Statistics read more about MSS Math/Stat Bootcamp »