Statistics Seminars 2003 - 2004

September	October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 5/11 Brad Efron Confidence Regions and Inferences for a Multivariate Normal Mean Vector   5/04 Ed George Improved Minimax Prediction Under Kullback-Leibler Loss

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 4/27 Trevor Hastie The Entire Regularization Path for the Support Vector Machine   4/20 Adi Raveh Co-plot: A graphical display technique for analyzing multivariate data   4/13 Christopher Genovese Confidence Sets for Nonparametric Regression, with application to Cosmology   4/5 Wing Hung Wong Some recent progress in microarray analysis Time & Place

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 03/30 Bernd Sturmfels Phylogenetic Invariants   03/11 Rima Izem Analysis of Nonlinear Variation in Curves, New Look at Genetic Tradeoffs Thursday 03/09 Alexander G. Gray Generalized N-Body Problems: A Story of Statistics, Computation and Science   03/04 Mathias Drton Iterative Conditional Fitting for Gaussian Ancestral Graph Models Note: Thursday 03/02 Samuel Kou Statistical Analysis of Single Molecule Experimental Data   03/01 Yehuda Vardi Deep Talk Plus Note: Monday

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 02/19 Damla Senturk Covariate Adjusted Regression Special Seminar 02/17 Martin Wainwright Graphical models, variational methods, and their applications   02/10 Martin Zerner How tall must trees be to fill the sky?   02/03 Joan Sieber Data Sharing: What's New?

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 01/27 Max Diem Multivariate Analysis of Infrared Spectral Maps to Detect Cancer in Tissue Biopsies   01/20 Tze Lai Dynamic Models with Time-Varying Volatilities and Regression Parameters and Their Applications to Financial Time Series   01/06 Dirk Ormoneit Statistical Arbitrage

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/2 Persi Diaconis A statistician flips a coin BSJC**

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/25 Noureddine El-Karoui The Tracy-Widom law holds when $n, p, p/n \rightarrow \infty$, with application to PCA   11/18 Joshua Sweetkind-Singer Log-Penalized Linear Regression   11/13 David Hornick Opportunities in research at the Census: Review of some projects from the Statistical Research Division Note: Thursday 11/03 I-Shou Chang Bayesian Isotonic Regression Using Bernstein Polynomials, with Application to Microarray Data Not Tuesday

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/28 Marc Raimondo Wavelet deconvolution in a periodic setting   10/21 Hongzhe Li The Additive Genetic Gama Frailty Models for Genetic Linkage and Association Analysis   10/14 Peter Hall An Approach to Theory for Classification in High-Dimensional, Low Sample-Size Settings

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 09/30 Rasmus Larsen Biomedical Image Analysis - Analysis of Biological Appearance