Statistics Seminars 2004 - 2005

September	October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May	June	July

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 08/23 Kaspar Rufibach Log-concave density estimation   08/16 Carlos Rivero Linearization procedures to test for breaks in nonlinear models   08/02 Rob Pike Interpreting the data

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 07/05 Jon Kettenring The Practice of Cluster Analysis   07/11 Louis Lyons Statistical techniques for Particle Physics  Monday! 07/12 Johan Lim Estimation of Shape-Restricted Functions: Shape Modification via Constrained Uniform Approximation   07/19 Youngjo Lee Double hierarchical generalized linear models   07/26 Jack P.C. Kleijnen Statistical testing of optimality conditions in simulation-based optimization

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 06/14 Marc Coram Statistical Challenges in Comparative Proteomics   06/21 Cyr Emile M'Lan Estimating Global and Gene-Specific Parameters in Unbalanced Multifactorial ANOVA model of Microarray Data.   06/28 Mark R. Segal Chess, Chance and Conspiracy

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 05/03 Kanti V. Mardia Statistical Matching and Alignment in Protein Bioinformatics   05/10 Moshe Pollak Sequential Selection Based on Ranks   05/17 Michael Woodroofe Shape Restricted Estimation in the Search for Dark Matter   05/24 Gary Lorden Some Optimal Fixed-shape Confidence Intervals   05/31 Rick Paik Schoenberg Separable Point Processes and their use in Wildfire Risk Estimation

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 04/05 Tsachy Weissmann Discrete Denoising for Channels with Memory   04/12 Art Owen Quasi-Monte Carlo for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Berkeley-Stanford Joint Colloquim at Berkeley, 4pm, Room 60 Evans Hall 04/19 Fugee Tsung Recent Advances in Statistical Quality Control   04/26 Jiming Jiang Iterative Estimating Equations

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 03/01 Andrew Carter Goodness of fit tests using asymptotic approximations   03/08 Robert Kass Some Statistical Issues in the Analysis of Neuronal Data   03/14 Donald Rubin Principal Stratification for Causal Inference with Extended Partial Noncompliance Special Seminar. Note nonstandard location: Herrin T175 03/15 Simon Jackman Generalized Latent Variable Modeling (with an application assessing applicants to a Ph.D.~program)

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 02/01 Reuven Rubinstein Monte-Carlo Simulation, Rare-Event Estimation and Combinatorial Optimization using The Cross-Entropy Method   02/08 James Holland Jones Likelihood-Based Model Selection for Sexual Partnership Distributions   02/14 Yoav Benjamini and Daniel Yekutieli False Discovery Rate adjusted multiple confidence intervals for selected parameters Special Seminar, at 11am, Room 034 in Math building (Bldg 200) 02/15 Ken Church On the Revival of Statistical Methods in Natural Language Processing   02/22 Moulinath Banerjee Inference for Conditionally Parametric Response Models

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 01/11 Bradley Efron Selection and Estimation For Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference   01/18 Sebastian Thrun Robotics Applications of Particle Filters   01/25 Jonathan Taylor Detecting electoral fraud: a case study from Venezuela To Be Announced

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/07 Jack Cuzick Adjusting for Non-compliance in the Proportional Hazards Model

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/30 Persi Diaconis The Problem of Solitaire   11/23 Peter Bartlett Empirical minimization and risk bounds * SBJC 11/16 Edward Vytlacil Dummy Endogenous Variables in Weakly Separable Models   11/09 Rob Tibshirani Prediction by Supervised Principal Components   11/02 No Seminar (voting day)

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/26 Jianqing Fan Normalization and significant analysis of microarrays using SLIM   10/19 David Siegmund Genome Scans With Gene-Covariate Interaction   10/12 No Seminar 10/05 Susan Holmes Multivariate Statistics on Graphs and Networks in Biology

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 9/28 Joe Romano Error Control in Multiple Testing