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?