Statistics Seminars 2005 - 2006

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

Date Speaker Title of Talk                            Abstract Comments 8/15 Daniele de Martini On the Stability of Statistical Tests Additional seminar Thursday this week 8/3 Karl Sjostrand Modern Statistical Methodology in Medical Image AnalysisModern Statistical Methodology in Medical Image Analysis 8/1 Gerold Alsmeyer A Stochastic Fixed Point Equation For Weighted Minima and Maxima

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 7/27 Rafael Irizarry Preprocessing Microarrays: Expression and Beyond Additional seminar Thursday this week 7/25 Bowei Xi Adversarial Learning 7/18 Ramani Pilla Semiparametric Inference for Correlated Data 7/11 Iddo Drori Fast L1 Minimization 7/5 Bradley Efron Doing Thousands of Hypothesis Tests at the Same Time Seminar on Wednesday this week

Date Speaker Title of Talk                         Abstract Comments 6/27 Tony d'Aristotile Brownian Motion and the Unitary Group 6/6 Peter Hall On Deconvolution with Repeated Measurements

Date Speaker Title of Talk                         Abstract Comments 5/30 Hui Zou The Adaptive Lasso and Its Oracle Properties 5/23 Elizabeth Purdom Data Analysis using Graphical Structures 5/16 Raja Velu Reduced-Rank Regression Models for Longitudinal Data 5/9 Sadri Khalessi Six Sigma 5/2 Michael Stein Seasonal variations in the spatial-temporal dependence of total column ozone

Date Speaker Title of Talk                         Abstract Comments 4/25 Andreas Buja, Michael Jordan Berkeley-Stanford Colloquium in honor of Jerome Friedman's retirement Starts at 3.15pm, in Packard 101 4/18 Cynthia Dwork A cryptographer's perspective on privacy-preserving data mining and statistical disclosure control 4/11 Balaji Srinivasan Network Integration Reveals Hidden Biology in 230 Microbes 4/4 Alexandre Tsybakov Aggregation by mirror averaging

Date Speaker Title of Talk                         Abstract Comments 3/28 John Sall Current Statistical Magic Tricks 3/21 Joseph Grcar John von Neumann's Analysis of Gaussian Elimination and the Invention of Modern Computing 3/14 Lutz Duembgen P-Values for Classification 3/7 Armin Schwartzman Random Ellipsoids and False Discovery Rates: Statistics for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data

Date Speaker Title of Talk                         Abstract Comments 2/28 Ben Taskar Computationally Efficient Estimation of Structured Prediction Models   2/21 Junhui Wang Margin-based Semi-supervised Learning   2/14 Yehua Li Nonparametric Estimation of Correlation Functions In Longitudinal And Spatial Data, With Application To Colon Carcinogenesis Experiments.   2/7 Tyler VanderWeele Directed Acyclic Graphs and Monotonic Effects   2/1 Francisco J. Samaniego On Conjugacy and Self-Consistency in Bayesian Inference Note: Non-standard day.

Date Speaker Title of Talk                         Abstract Comments 1/31 Yun Ju Sung MCMC Linkage Analysis for Two Genes and a Polygenic Component on General Pedigrees   1/24 Nancy Zhang Modified BIC for Change-point Problems with Applications to Array-CGH Data   1/17 Ramani S. Pilla Inference in Perturbation Models, Mixtures and Spatial Scan Process   1/10 Ying Nian Wu Information Scaling and Cartoonlets

Date Speaker Title of Talk                         Abstract Comments 12/6 Herbie Lee Adaptive Parameter Space Exploration and Nonstationary Modeling Using Gaussian Process Trees

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/1 Jan Pedersen Sponsored Search: Theory and Practice   11/8 David Wolpert Self-dissimilarity as a high dimensional complexity measure   11/15 David Mease Evidence Contrary to the Statistical View of Boosting   11/22 No talk Thanksgiving Week               11/29 Saharon Rossett The Genographic Project: Background and Some Statistical Challenges

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/04 Brad Efron Correlation and large-scale simultaneous significance testing   10/11 Gunnar Carlsson Algebraic Topology and the Statistics of Natural Images   10/18 Hock Peng Chan Efficient importance sampling and sequential Monte Carlo methods for computing probabilites in complex statistical models   10/28 Richard Olshen ** BSJC The Genetics of Complex Disease, Particularly Hypertension Friday, in Berkeley

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 09/27 Mu Zhu LAGO: A computationally efficient method for statistical detection