 
	
	
	
	
	 
			 A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2024 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universities free of charge; however,  REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! 
			The deadline to register is 
			Friday, April 12, 2024.
			
			A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2024 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students from UMBC and local universities free of charge; however,  REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! 
			The deadline to register is 
			Friday, April 12, 2024.   
			
			
			  REGISTER NOW  
		
For more information, contact any member of the organizing committee:
			Thomas Mathew
Conference Chair
 410.868.4491
		
			Seungchul Baek
  410.455.2406 
			Ansu Chatterjee
  410.455.2235 
			Yvonne Huang
  410.455.2422 
			Yehenew Kifle
  443.231.8368 
			Yaakov Malinovsky
  410.455.2968 
			Nagaraj Neerchal
  410.455.2437 
			Thu Nguyen
  410.455.2407 
			DoHwan Park
  410.455.2408 
			Anindya Roy
  410.455.2435 
			Bimal Sinha
  443.538.3012 
		 	Elizabeth Stanwyck
  410.455.5731 
         
 
	The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMBC will hold the 15th Annual Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC during April 19−20, 2024. The event will consist of a half-day workshop on Friday afternoon and a full day conference on Saturday. Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC is open to statisticians from all academic institutions, government agencies, and private industries. The event is free for all statistics graduate students from UMBC and other academic institutions (registration required).
Subhashis Ghoshal
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
An Invitation to Bayesian Nonparametrics
Jay Bartroff
Department of Statistics and Data Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Optimal hypergeometric confidence sets are (almost) always intervals
Scott H. Holan
Department of Statistics
University of Missouri and US Census Bureau
Computationally efficient Bayesian unit-level models for non-Gaussian data under informative sampling
Debdeep Pati
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Reconciling computational barriers and statistical guarantees in variational inference
Tian Zheng
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Statistical challenges in climate data science
Zeytu Gashaw Asfaw
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
The root-Gaussian Cox process for spatio-temporal disease mapping with aggregated data
Abdulkadir Hussein
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Windsor
Ridge--Type Shrinkage Estimators in Low and High Dimensional Beta Regression Models with Applications in Econometrics and Medicine
Tommy Wright
Center Chief
Center for Statistical Research and Methodology
US Census Bureau
Visualization and Uncertainty