My advisor is Chiara Sabatti. Her webpage is here. I am
working on statistical problems when analysing genome-wide association studies.
Teaching Assistant
I am not teaching this year. Previous class information is here.
Qualifying Exam Scans
The scans have been moved. They now have
their own server, qual.stat.ucla.edu. Old exams are here.
LATEX guide
I have found a very useful guide to using LATEX by
Tobias
Oetiker, et al. It is a pdf that is 145 pages long and includes a
table of all mathematical symbols, along with code for different
environments, inserting images, and language support. You can download it
here, or you can see a version of it that has
been broken up into chapters here.
The chapters and the pdf are now both the newest version, from 2007.
Campus maps can be found here.
Just for your amusement: math jokes.
Mirror Image Twins
I am a mirror image twin. Mirror image twins are
identical twins who exhibit some form of mirroring,
usually in which hand is dominant, or which way their hair curls, etc. In
the most extreme case, one twin will have completely mirrored internal
organs (e.g. heart on the right side, etc.) In this article, doctors found a pair of twins who
both had lung cancer, but the placement of the tumors were mirrored.
About 23% of identical twins are mirror image twins. There has been very
little research done in this area, and nobody is sure why some twins have
mirroring. The current theory is that mirror twins split between 7 and 13
days, which is late for identical twins but not so late that they become
conjoined twins.
My twin sister and I have the opposite hands dominant, hair that curls
in the opposite direction, fingerprints that are identical but on the
opposite hand, and mirrored freckles. Here is a picture of our feet - we have mirrored
freckles.
Links
Statistics
Department
UCLA homepage
The University of
Chicago, my alma mater
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