Seminars

Seminars - Fall 2007

• In-Season Prediction of Batting Averages: A Field-test of Simple Empirical Bayes and Bayes Methodologies
  Wednesday -- September 12, 2007 -- Lawrence D. Brown, The Wharton School, UPenn [lbrown@wharton.upenn.edu]
  
• The Geometry of Random Fields in Astrophysics and Brain Mapping
  Wednesday -- September 19, 2007 -- Keith Worsley, McGill University [keith.worsley@mcgill.ca]
  
• Information Mining and Services Research: It's Not Computing Prowess Alone
  MONDAY -- September 24, 2007 -- Siddhartha R. Dalal, DIMACS, Rutgers University [sdalal@rci.rutgers.edu]
  
• How to repair a Broken Life Table: Estimating Survival Curve With Unlinked Entry and Failure Times
  Wednesday -- September 26, 2007 -- Weichung Joe Shih, UMDNJ, School of Public Health [shihwj@umdnj.edu]
  
• Maximum Entropy and Species Distribution Modeling
  Wednesday -- October 3, 2007 -- Robert Schapire, Princeton University [schapire@cs.princeton.edu]
  
• Assessment, Management, and Integration of Misclassification Errors in Statistical Tests of Genetic Association
  Wednesday -- October 10, 2007 -- Derek Gordon, Genetics, Rutgers University [Gordon@biology.rutgers.edu]
  
• Accounting for Spatial Correlation in the Scan Statistic
  Wednesday -- October 17, 2007 -- Ji Meng Loh, Columbia [meng@stat.columbia.edu]
  
• Optimal Stopping and Free Boundary Characterizations for some Brownian Control Problems
  Wednesday -- October 24, 2007 -- Kevin Ross, Stanford [kjross@stanford.edu]
  
• Structural Break Detection in Time Series Models
  Wednesday -- October 31, 2007 -- Richard Davis, Columbia University [rdavis@stat.columbia.edu]
  
• Probabilistic Counting over Distributed Packet Streams in High Speed Networks
  Wednesday -- November 7, 2007 -- Jin Cao [cao@research.bell-labs.com] and Aiyou Chen [aychen@research.bell-labs.com], Bell Labs, Murray Hill
  
• Cell Cycle Control in Non-dividing Cells: Through the Looking Glass
  Wednesday -- November 14, 2007 -- Karl Herrup, Rutgers University [herrup@biology.rutgers.edu]
  
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  Wednesday -- November 21, 2007 -- No talk: Day before Thanksgiving
  
• Brownian Covariance: Measuring and Testing Dependence by Correlation of Distances
  Wednesday -- November 28, 2007 -- Gabor Szekely, National Science Foundation [gszekely@nsf.gov]
  
• Semiparametric Methods for Gene-Environment Case-Control Studies
  Wednesday -- December 5, 2007 -- Raymond J. Carroll, TAMU [carroll@stat.tamu.edu]
  
• Fast and Accurate L1 Penalized Least Squares
  Wednesday -- December 12, 2007 -- Andrew Barron, Yale University [andrew.barron@yale.edu]