School of Statistics Seminars

School Seminars Spring 2007

January 25:: Lan Wang, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota; Consistent Model Selection and Data-driven Smooth Tests for Clustered Data
January 31:: SEYMOUR GEISSER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE:; Philip Dawid, Department of Statistical Science, University College London; Interpreting DNA Profile Evidence in Complex Disputed Paternity Cases: Bayesian Networks to the Rescue
February 8:: Snigdhansu Chatterjee, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota; Small Area Inference Using Resampling Techniques
February 15:: Tom Scripps, Scripps & Associates, PC, Evergreen, Colorado; An Independent Statistical Consultant in the 21st Century
February 22:: Fan Yao, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto; Iterative Functional Principal Component Analysis for Correlation Reduction
March 1:: Florentina Bunea, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
March 8:: Keith Worsley, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
March 15:: Spring Break
March 22:: Stephen Fienberg, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; Bayesian Mixed Membership Models for Soft Clustering
March 29:: Jeff Wu, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech (Joint seminar with Carlson School of Management); Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Integrating Low-accuracy and High-accuracy Experiments
April 5:: Vladimir Koltchinskii, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech; Oracle Inequalities in Sparse Learning Problems
April 10:: BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES, Mike Titterington, University of Glasgow; Pearson the Elder - A Statistical Giant
April 11:: BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES, Mike Titterington, University of Glasgow; Variational Approximations in Incomplete-data Problems
April 12:: BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES, Mike Titterington, University of Glasgow; Bayesian Measures of Complexity, and Model Selection, Based on Incomplete Data
April 19:: Heping Zhang, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine; Joint Modeling of Time Series Measures and Recurrent Events and Analysis of the Effects of Air Quality on Respiratory Symptoms
April 26:: Bin Yu, Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley; Lasso: Algorithm, Theory and Extension
May 3:: Zhiliang Ying, Department of Statistics, Columbia University; SEMINAR CANCELLED
May 24:: Joerg Polzehl, Weierstrass Institut for Applied Analysis and Stochastics; Structural Adaptive Smoothing in Imaging Problems

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