Statistics Seminars 2006 - 2007

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 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 8/14 Pablo E. Verde Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany Modern meta-analysis: a case study in combining results of diagnostic test data 8/7 Balaji S. Srinivasan Stanford University Automatic Population of Biomedical Ontologies

July 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 7/31 Kaspar Rufibach Stanford University Max-domain of attraction for log-concave densities and smooth tail index estimation 7/17 Haipeng Xing Columbia University A hidden Markov modeling approach to multiple change-points 7/10 Yonina C. Eldar Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Improving Maximum Likelihood and the Cramer-Rao Bound 7/3 Bowei Xi Purdue University Voice Over the Internet

June 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 6/12 John Rice University of California, Berkeley Event Weighted Tests for Detecting Periodicity in Photon Arrival Times 6/5 Hege Marie Bovelstad University of Oslo, Norway Predicting survival from microarray data - a comparative study

May 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 5/22 Brad Efron Stanford University Simultaneous Inference: When Should Hypothesis Testing Problems Be Combined?   5/15 Rob Tibshirani Stanford University Pathwise coordinate optimization   5/8 Marepalli Rao University of Cincinnati On the Control of False Discovery Rate with no Assumption of Dependency   5/1 Noureddine El Karoui UC Berkeley Estimation of large dimensional covariance matrices * SBJC

April 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 4/24 Ji Zhu University of Michigan Group Variable Selection via Hierarchical Lasso and Its Oracle Property   4/17 Victor Panaretos UC Berkeley Random Tomography and Structural Biology   4/10 Claudia Tebaldi National Center for Atmospheric Research Making sense of ensembles of climate models: a Bayesian approach to estimating future climate change and its uncertainty   4/3 Mendal Fygenson USC Pessimistic Modeling and Inference in the Risk Evaluation of Carcinogens

March 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 3/27 Manny Parzen Texas A&M University United Statistics: Parameter Confidence Qiantiles, Duality Bayesian Frequentist Inference   3/20 Balaji Srinivasan Stanford University The Statistical Backbone of the Stanford Network Browser   3/13 David Stork Stanford University Toward a statistical theory of data acquisition   3/6 Dylan Small University of Pennsylvania The Malaria Attributable Fraction: Definition, Inference and Sensitivity Analysis

February 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 2/27 Werner Stuetzle University of Washington Generalized Single Linkage Clustering   2/20 Saharon Rosset IBM l1 regularization in infinite dimensional feature spaces   2/13 Tim Haas University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee How to Estimate a Political-Ecological Process Model So That It Can Be Used to Manage an Ecosystem   2/6 Duncan Temple Lang University of California at Davis Evolving Statistical Computing for the Future

January 2007

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 1/30 David Siegmund Stanford University pproximating the Variance of the Conditional Probability of the State of a Hidden Markov Model   1/23 Anna Amirdjanova University of Michigan Nonlinear filtering in the presence of long-memory noise   1/16 Nicolai Meinshausen UC Berkeley Some Consistency Results for Lasso Variable Selection   1/9 John M. Chambers Stanford University The Evolution of S (including R)

December 2006

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/05 Chiara Sabatti UCLA Transcription Regulation Networks

November 2006

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/28 Sourav Chatterjee UC Berkeley Exponential Families of Random Networks   11/21 Bin Yu UC Berkeley Arctic Cloud Detection using Multi-Angle and Hyperspectral Satellite Images   11/14 Emmanuel Candes California Institute of Technology The Dantzig Selector: statistical estimation when p is larger than n   11/07 Wing Wong Stanford University Learning causal Bayesian network structures

October 2006

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/31 Kim-Anh Do MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas Bayesian Mixture Models for Complex High-Dimensional Count Data in Phage Display Experiments   10/24 Kenneth Lange UCLA An Overview of the MM Algorithm   10/17 Haiyan Huang U.C. Berkeley Gene expression/function similarity inferences   10/10 Jerry Friedman Stanford University Fast Incremental Algorithms for Regularized Regression and Classification   10/03 Sofia Ohlede Imperial College, London Hyperanalytic Denoising

September 2006

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 09/26 Art Owen Stanford University Infinitely imbalanced logistic regression

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