alanaw1 / summerresearch

Undergraduate Summer Research in Statistics 2017

June 26 - September 1

Instructor: Julia Palacios, Sequoia Hall 141

Group meetings: Thursday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Individual meetings: Monday

Location: Sequoia Hall 207

Logistics: We will have group meetings every Thursday and individual meetings every Monday. You are expected to show progress in every meeting.

Seminars of interest: Statistics seminar, Tuesdays 4:30PM, Sequoia Hall room 200 (refreshments provided in room 100 at 4PM).

General instructions: The main components will be reading papers, using in R with many graphics and simulations, and the analysis of real data. You can work on adapting a statistical method to analyze some data in order to answer a scientific question, develop statistical methodology to answer a scientific question or explore the statistical properties of existent methods.

You are expected to start working on your final report from the start, so that you have a complete final document when your research time is over (and not afterwards), so keep completing your report every week.

Keep an R-Markdown document or Jupyter notebook with your code and comment your code. Keep an updated git repository with your information. We will talk about this on June 29.

Expectations: You will present your project proposal on June 29 in 10 minutes. You will describe the questions you want to answer and how you plan to answer them. You will also have a list of references you will read during the summer program.

Give two oral presentations, the first presentation of 20 minutes will be on Thursday July 20 about your progress and your final presentation of 40 minutes will be on Thursday August 31.

Your first complete draft is due on August 25 and your final publishable paper is due on September 1st.

Journal reading

Part of our summer research will involve reading and discussing some scientific papers. I want to emphasize the importance of being a scholar. I ask you to read at least two papers a week, some of them will be discussed during group meetings and some will be uniquely relevant for your projects. When you finish reading your paper, write a short summary of your findings and annotate them here under Description. Please edit this list as needed.

Date	Link to paper	Reader	Description
June 26	Methods and models for unravelling human evolutionary history	All	It will be discussed on Thursday June 29
June 27	A metric on phylogenetic tree shapes	Julia
July 6	FastTree	All
July 13	An expanded view of complex traits	All
July 20	Impacts of Neanderthal-Introgressed Sequences on the Landscape of Human Gene Expression	All

Put yourself on the calendar like this:

| May 16   | [paper](https://...) | Julia | A very interesting paper |