Statistics Seminars 2007 - 2008

We provide a LaTeX seminar template for speakers to use (pdf output here). Using this template makes it easy for us to post the details of the talk promptly and without unintended errors that might creep in if we were to transcribe the abstract.

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September	October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August

August 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 8/26 Niels Richard Hansen TBA 8/19 Benjamin Yakir TBA 8/12 TBA TBA

July 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 7/29 Laurent El-Gharoui TBA 7/22 Haipeng Xing SUNY at Stony Brook Mean-variance portfolio optimization when means and covariances are unknown 7/15 Mark Berman CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Some Statistical Problems in Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging 7/8 Kingshuk Roy Choudhury University College Cork, Ireland Reconstruction of wind wave fields by refractive imaging of water 7/1 Bradley Efron Stanford University Large Scale Prediction problems

June 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 6/24 Mark Podolskij Aarhus University Power variation for Gaussian processes with stationary increments 6/03 Martin E. Hellman Stanford University Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence

May 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 5/27 Andrew B. Nobel University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Finding Significant Large-Average Submatrices in High Dimensional Data 5/20 Matthew Harding Stanford University A Bayesian Mixed Logit-Probit Model for Multinomial Choice 5/13 Carl Morris and Trevor Hastie Harvard University and Stanford University Special Seminar to Celebrate Bradley Efron's 70th Birthday See Announcement for full schedule 5/6 Gitta Kutyniok Stanford University l1-Minimization and the Geometric Separation Problem

April 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 4/22 Michael D. Perlman University of Washington The Role of Reversals in Statistical inference: Two Vignettes 4/15 Qiwei Yao London School of Economics Analysing Time Series with Nonstationarity: Common Factors and Curve Series 4/8 Art B. Owen Stanford University Transposably invariant sample reuse methods 4/1 Susan A. Murphy University of Michigan A Prediction Interval for the Misclassification Rate and Value

March 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 3/18 Brian Marx Louisiana State University Bilinear varying-coefficient surface models with an application to death counts 3/11 Yoram Singer Google Efficient Projections Algorithms onto the l1 Ball for Learning Sparse Representations from High Dimension Data 3/4 Peter Hoff University of Washington Hierarchical eigenmodels for matrix-valued data

February 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 2/27 Bala Rajaratnam Stanford University Flexible Covariance estimation in Gaussian Graphical models Wednesday 2/26 Philippe Rigollet Georgia Tech Stochastic convex optimization using mirror averaging algorithm 2/19 Lie Wang U. Penn Wharton School A Difference Based Method in Nonparametric Function Estimation 2/12 Ethan Anderes UC Berkeley Two Topics in Spatial Statistics: Estimating Cloud Height from Multi-Angle Satellite Imagery and Deformed Random Fields 2/5 Peter Radchenko USC Variable Inclusion and Shrinkage Algorithms

January 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 1/29 Yingying Fan Department of Statistics, Harvard University Integration of Time- and State-Domain Methods for Volatility Matrix Estimation 1/22 Youngjo Lee Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea DHGLMs for LASSO 1/15 Inchi Hu Department of Information and Systems Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China The coupling spline model and stochastic approximation 1/08 Peter Jaggers Chalmers University of Technology and Goteborg On the path to extinction

December 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/4 Kingshuk Chowdhury University College, Cork, Ireland Variability of strain estimation

November 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/27 Regina Liu Rutgers University Mining Massive Text Data: Classification, Construction of Tracking Statistics and Inference under Misclassification 11/20 Maya Bar-Hillel The Center for Rationality, The Hebrew University The Bible Code: A Scientific Riddle and Its Solution 11/13 Carrie Grimes Google Estimation of Web Page Change Rates 11/6 Peter Bickel UC Berkeley Collapse of Particle Filters

October 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/30 Andrea Montanari Stanford University Estimating random variables from random sparse observations ** BSJC 10/23 Andrew Ng Computer Science Department, Stanford University STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project 10/16 Yuguo Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A New Data Augmentation Scheme 10/9 Brad Efron Stanford University Are a Set of Microarrays Independent of Each Other? 10/2 Persi Diaconis Stanford University Conditional Inference: Fisher, Neyman, and Bayes

September 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 9/25 Susan Holmes Stanford University Finding Time: A la recherche du temps perdu

*	SBJC = Stanford-Berkeley Joint Colloquium at Stanford
**	BSJC = Berkeley-Stanford Joint Colloquium at Berkeley