Seminars - Spring 2009

• Robust statistical Inference on spatial-temporal processes with applications
  Wednesday -- January 28, 2009 -- Wanli Min, IBM [wanlimin@us.ibm.com]
  
  
• Statistics at Google
  Wednesday -- February 4, 2009 -- Diane Lambert, Google [dlambert@google.com]
  
  
• Distinct counting with a self-learning bitmap
  Wednesday -- February 11, 2009 -- Aiyou Chen, Bell Lab, Murray Hill, NJ [aychen@alcatel-lucent.com]
  
  
• Variable Selection in Semi-parametric Regression Modeling
  Wednesday -- February 18, 2009 -- Hua Liang, University of Rochester, NY [hliang@bst.rochester.edu]
  
  
• Making Sense of Climate Data Records
  Wednesday -- February 25, 2009 -- Dave Robinson, Rutgers University [drobins@rci.rutgers.edu]
  
  
• Multi-objective Optimal Experimental Designs in Event-Related fMRI Studies
  Tuesday -- March 3, 2009 -- Abhyuday Mandal, University of Georgia [amandal@stat.uga.edu]
  
  
• Constrained Factor Models: Least Squares Estimation and Forecasting
  Wednesday -- March 4, 2009 -- Ruey S. Tsay, University of Chicago, Illinois [ruey.tsay@chicagogsb.edu]
  
  
• Supervised and relational topic models
  Wednesday -- March 11, 2009 -- David Blei, Princeton University [blei@CS.Princeton.EDU]
  
  
• A Prediction Interval for the Misclassification Rate
  Wednesday -- March 25, 2009 -- Susan Murphy, University of Michigan [samurphy@umich.edu]
  
  
• Peakedness and Peakedness Ordering in Symmetric Distributions
  Wednesday -- April 1, 2009 -- Hammou El Barmi, Baruch College, City University of NY [hammou_elbar]
  
  
• Validation of Image Segmentation via an EM-Algorithm and Various Metrics
  Wednesday -- April 8, 2009 -- Kelly Zou, Pfizer, Inc. [Kelly.Zou@pfizer.com]
  
  
• Trimmed Comparison of Distributions
  Wednesday -- April 15, 2009 -- Juan Cuesta-Albertos, Cantabria University, Spain [cuesta@correo.unican.es]
  
  
• How many people do you know?: Efficiently estimating personal network size
  Wednesday -- April 22, 2009 -- Tian Zheng, Columbia University, New York [tzheng@stat.columbia.edu]
  
  
• Spectral Magic
  Wednesday -- April 29, 2009 -- David Stoffer, University of Pittsburgh and NSF Program Director [stoffer@pitt.edu]
  
  
  

  Seminars - Fall 2008

  • A mathematical approach to managing diabetes
    Wednesday -- September 10, 2008 -- Lawrence Shepp, Rutgers University [shepp@stat.rutgers.edu]
    
    
  • A stimulus-locked vector autoregressive model for slow event-related fMRI designs
    Wednesday -- September 17, 2008 -- Wesley K. Thompson, University of Pittsburgh, PA [wesleyt+@pitt.edu]
    
    
  • Statistical analysis of complex biological systems
    Wednesday -- September 24, 2008 -- Edo Airoldi, Princeton University [eairoldi@princeton.edu]
    
    
  • Discovering influential variables: A method of partitions
    Wednesday -- October 1, 2008 -- Shaw-Hua Lo, Columbia University [slo@stat.columbia.edu]
    
    
  • New multiple testing methods
    Wednesday -- October 8, 2008 -- Arthur Cohen, Rutgers University [artcohen@rci.rutgers.edu]
    
    
  • Computational obstacles to high-dimensional filtering
    Wednesday -- October 15, 2008 -- Thomas Bengtsson, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent [tocke@research.bell-labs.com]
    
    
  • Data Spectroscopy: Eigenspace of Convolution Operators and Clustering
    Wednesday -- October 22, 2008 -- Tao Shi, Department of Statistics, Ohio State University [taoshi@stat.osu.edu]
    
    
  • Bayesian structural estimation of the effects of out-of-stocks
    Wednesday -- October 29, 2008 -- Eric T. Bradlow, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania [ebradlow@wharton.upenn.edu]
    
    
  • Partial Correlation Estimation by Joint Sparse Regression Models
    Wednesday -- November 5, 2008 -- Ji Zhu, University of Michigan [jizhu@umich.edu]
    
    
  • A General Framework for Multiple Testing Dependence
    Wednesday -- November 12, 2008 -- John Storey, Princeton University [jstorey@genomics.princeton.edu]
    
    
  • Time Reversibility Of Multivariate Linear Time Series
    Tuesday -- November 18, 2008 -- Howell Tong, London School of Economics [h.tong@lse.ac.uk]
    
    
  • Frequentists’ Bayes - Combining Prior and Data Through Confidence Distribution
    Wednesday -- November 19, 2008 -- Kesar Singh, Rutgers University [kesar@stat.rutgers.edu]
    
    
  • Dual Modality Network Tomography
    Wednesday -- December 3, 2008 -- George Michailidis, University of Michigan [gmichail@umich.edu]
    
    

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