STAT 157 (2017) : Titles of student 7-minute talks
I may do minor edits to some titles, for clarity. You can change topics if you
wish, but keep the same time slot.
Look at the reading/talk projects paragraph
on this page.
In particular you have a 7 minute slot, allowing time to
change speakers.
If you have a handout, email to me the day before your talk, and I will make copies.
Tuesday 19 September
- 2.10 - 2.17. Achilleas Ghinis: Modern Campaigning and Microtargeting in the 2016 Election.
- 2.18 - 2.25. Dodo Qian: Does Relativity Decide Our Choices?
- 2.26 - 2.33. Shicheng Huang: Reference Class Forecasting.
- 2.34 - 2.41. Yixin Shen: Can sleep on the weekends cover all the losses of staying up late?
- 2.42 - 2.49. Kevin Attiyeh: Is there a "hot hand" in basketball?
- 2.50 - 2.57. Haochen Zhou: A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Risk and Return in Investing.
- 2.58 - 3.05.
- 3.06 - 3.13. Alexander Pearson: Probability in Molecular Epidemiology: The Curious Case of the Dentist Dr. David Acer.
- 3.14 - 3.21.
Serena Jiang: Probabilistic Models of Language Change.
Thursday 21 September
- 2.10 - 2.17. Ben Chiu: Choosing a Spouse.
- 2.18 - 2.25. Xiaoli Sun: Facebook: I know what you want.
- 2.26 - 2.33. Julian Gruber: Slow Violence and Global Warming: Risk Assessment within collective action problems.
- 2.42 - 2.49. Robert McIlhatton: Fantasy Football Lineup Optimization.
- 2.50 - 2.57. Daniel Stephens: Sports: Same probability, diminishing variance.
- 2.58 - 3.05. Laura Kim: Sorry, there's no such a thing as 'real risk'.
- 3.06 - 3.13.
Andy Ko: Algorithmic Trading: How real and useful is it?
- 3.14 - 3.21.
Qing Guo: How often do web pages update?
- 3.22 - 3.29. Zhifei Cai: NBA Conspiracy Theory.
Tuesday 26 September
- 2.10 - 2.17. Hang Gao: Winner Winner or Chicken Dinner?
- 2.18 - 2.25. Bryan Alcorn: What move do I make? - quick estimation for making the right decisions in games.
- 2.26 - 2.33. Grant Hayes: Deal or No Deal.
- 2.34 - 2.41. Nga Pui Leung: Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.
- 2.42 - 2.49. Tsz Chung Mak: Make a Choice: save one or others?
- 2.50 - 2.57. Peirang Xu: Stable Matching.
- 2.58 - 3.05.
Dibya Ghosh: Cracking Codes with Markov Chains.
- 3.06 - 3.13.
Maxwell Weinstein: The Role of Talent and Luck in Projecting Future Performance.
- 3.14 - 3.21.
Zhixin Li: Is Cheating Getting Worse -- How to keep a marriage stable?
- 3.22 - 3.29.
Tomas Villena Concha: Markowitz Portfolio and Game Theory.
- 3.30 - 3.37. Shang Hao Huang
: The rich get richer, is it coincidence?