Our department seminars will resume in January. See our Seminars page for details about previous presentations.
Conferences
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December 13-15, 2025
All day (Western European Time) University of London, UK
CMStats 2025
The 19th International Joint Conference for CFE (Computational and Financial Econometrics) and CMStats (Computational and Methodological Statistics) will convene in Birkbeck in early December. A number of Vanderbilt Biostatistics faculty and students have participated in past editions of CMStats. This year's program will include associate professor Andrew Spieker (chairing the session "Recent developments in receiver operating characteristic curve analysis" and presenting "Semi-parametric confidence bands for the ROC curve based on unions of transformed elliptical regions"), assistant professor Panpan Zhang (chairing the session "Network analysis methods and their applications" and presenting "Covariate-assisted community detection for functional brain networks: A variational approach"), and assistant professor Siyuan Ma (presenting "MiLC to account for unobserved confounding and reduce false discoveries in microbiome research").
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December 17 - 20, 2025
All day Taipei, Taiwan
The 13th ICSA International Conference
Several members of the Department of Biostatistics are participating in the Joint Meetings of the 2025 Taipei International Statistical Symposium and the 13th International Chinese Statistical Association International Conference, at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. Invited speakers include professor of biostatistics, biomedical informatics, and ophthalmology & visual sciences Qingxia "Cindy" Chen.