About Me
Tracy Holsclaw
Email: tholscla at sign ucsc dot edu
I am PhD student working under Herbie Lee (UCSC) and Bruno Sanso (UCSC) on Statistical Modeling for Dark Energy. This is an ISSDM collaboration with Los Alamos National Labs cosmologists Katrin Heitmann, Salman Habib and Ujjaini Alam and statistician, Dave Higdon. We currently are working with Bayesian parametric and non-parametric models to fit non-linear equations to supernovae data to elicit the form of the equation of state for the posited dark energy.
I advanced to canidacy in October 2009 and plan to graduate in late 2010 or early 2011. I have passed both my written and oral exams and am currently working on a dissertation about Gaussian processes applications in inverse problems.
Posters
- Cosmic Calibration - Statistical Modeling for Dark Energy III
- Cosmic Calibration - Statistical Modeling for Dark Energy II
- Cosmic Calibration - Statistical Modeling for Dark Energy I
Presentations
Education
- BS - Applied Mathematics (emphasis in Statistics) - San Jose State University
- MS - Mathematics - San Jose State University - thesis Investigation of Repeated Measures Linear Regression Methodologies
Courses I found interesting
- UCSC - Bayesian Modeling, Generalized Linear Models, Bayesian non-parametrics, Decision theory, Spatial statistics, Probability theory, and special topics in MCMC.
- SJSU - Regression Analysis, Survival analysis, and Partial differential equations.
- Future courses - Time series, Stochastic processes
Other team projects
- Translating Differential Equation Models Into Kernel Methods for Data Analysis - Phase III (Large file)
- Mathematical and statistical analysis of heat pipe design
- Statistical analysis of a nonlinear chemical equation using numerical methods
Teaching
- Lecture Math 8 - College Algebra and Trigonometry at SJSU
- Sections of AMS 211A - Introduction to Business Calculus at UCSC
- Sections and lab of AMS 7 - Statistical Methods for the Biological, Environmental, and Health Sciences at UCSC
- Sections of Math 6L and 6B - Developmental Math Activity atSJSU
- Lectured Math3A - Intensive Leaning I - a first course in algebra at SJSU
I recently graduated from SJSU with my MS in Mathematics but most of my course work was in statistics.