Colloquia
This approachable seminar series is a great way to expand your understanding of statistics and gain exposure to new ways to apply the subject.
All colloquia are held at 2:50 p.m. in LeConte College, Room 224, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served afterward in LeConte 214.
For a list of speakers for the current year, please see our list of Statistics Department Colloquia.
Research Seminars
In addition to the departmental colloquia series, the statistics department holds regular informal research seminars, often given by faculty and graduate students.
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Contact Ray Bai (rbai@mail.box.sc.edu) for information about our seminar series.
Palmetto Lecture Series
The Palmetto Lecturer Series is an annual research series begun by former department chair Don Edwards.
Each spring, a renowned guest researcher visits the statistics department for a week. During their time at USC, our guest gives two research presentations (one technical and one more popular/accessible).
View our past Palmetto Lecturers
David Banks, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Regina Liu, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
Bani Mallick, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
Karen Messer, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of California San Diego
Michael Kosorok, Department of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Xihong Lin, Department of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Joseph Ibrahim, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ray Carroll, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
Anastasios (Butch) Tsiatis, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
Naisyin Wang, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
Peter Müller, Department of Statistics, University of Texas, Austin
Francisco J. Samaniego, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
Ed George, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania
James Ramsay, Department of Psychology, McGill University
Odd Aalen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo