Dr. Sujit Ghosh, Deputy Director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), has been invited by the University of North Carolina-Greensboro’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics to present a series of three lectures this fall as part of the Helen Barton Lecture Series in Mathematical Sciences.
The lecture series has been a fixture in the academic community since 2012 and the target audience for these talks are graduate and upper level undergraduate students and faculty members. Dr. Ghosh is one of many distinguished mathematicians/statisticians who have been invited to speak for the series.
Ghosh’s three-part series, entitled, “Statistical Inference Subject to Shape Constraint,” will take place on the UNC-G campus from, Monday, November 14 thru Wednesday, November 16.
The focus of Dr. Ghosh’s talk will be to present an introductory overview of lectures on statistical inference for density and regression function estimations that are known to preserve a set of shape constraints. Some popular applications include the study of:
- utility functions, cost functions, and profit functions in economics
- the analysis of growth rates as a function of various environmental factors
- the study of dose response curve in the phase I clinical trials
- the estimation of the monotone hazard rates and the mean residual life functions in reliability and survival analysis and many more
In addition to theoretical results and applications, the lectures will also feature demos of R software packages that can be used to compute various statistical data and graphics.
Ghosh has served as the Deputy Director at SAMSI since 2014. He has served as the Co-Director of Graduate Programs in Statistics at North Carolina State University, where he managed over 150 students annually from 2010 – 2013. Before serving in his current role at SAMSI, Ghosh served as the Program Director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences within the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation from 2013 – 2014.
Prof. Ghosh has more than 20 years’ experience in conducting, researching and applying statistical analysis of biomedical and environmental information in a wide variety of capacities and subjects. On top of these accomplishments professionally, he has a lengthy and extensive academic record which includes: giving over 125 invited lectures at seminars and national/international meetings; serving as a statistical investigator and consultant for over 40 different research projects funded by numerous private industry leaders and federal agencies and publishing over 95 referred journal articles in the area of biomedical, econometrics and environmental sciences just to name a few. Dr. Ghosh has also co-edited a popular book entitled “Generalized Linear Models: A Bayesian Perspective.”
To see more information on Dr. Ghosh’s lecture or other upcoming events visit the web page for the Helen Barton Lecture series.