Statistics Seminars 2008 - 2009

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

September 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 09/08 Daniel Yekutieli Department of Statistics and OR, Tel Aviv University Adjusted Bayesian inference for selected parameters 09/01 Ishay Weissman Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Dependence Measures for Multivariate Extreme Value Distributions

August 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 08/25 Gianna S. Monti Department of Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca Compositional data: distributions on the simplex and correlation analysis 08/18 Gianluca Iaccarino Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Fluid Mechanics 08/13 Shivani Agarwal Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ranking: A New Class of Statistical Learning Problems 08/11 Kesar Singh and Minge Xie Department of Statistics, Rutgers University The concepts of confidence distribution and CD-posterior, and a unified framework of meta-analysis

July 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 7/28 Lexin Li Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University Some Recent Developments in Sufficient Dimension Reduction 7/21 Claudia Tebaldi Climate Central and Department of Statistics, UBC-Vancouver Will our future be warmer and rainier or warmer and drier? Future changes in temperature and precipitation averages through Bayesian hierarchical models of global climate simulations’ output. 7/14 Susan Holmes Department of Statistics, Stanford University French Exploratory Data Analysis : Following the Dailies 7/7 Boaz Nadler Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science How many signals? Non-parametric Detection and Random Matrix Theory

June 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 6/30 Yoshiyuki Ninomiya Kyushu University Model Selection for Exploratory Factor Analysis via Locally Conic Parameterization 6/2 Hiroshi Shono National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries Research Agency, Japan Fish population analysis by neural network - Attempts for CPUE prediction and attribution analysis

May 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 5/26 Jonathan Levin Department of Economics, Stanford University An Analysis of Subprime Lending 5/19 Ping Ma Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A Journey to the Center of the Earth 5/12 Bradley Efron Department of Statistics, Stanford University Correlated Z-Values and The Accuracy of Large-Scale Statistical Estimates 5/5 Alice S. Whittemore Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine Personalizing Cancer Prevention in the Genomics Era 5/1 James Robins School of Public Health, Harvard University A Bold Vision of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy: Finding the Detailed Causal Structure of Networks without Background Knowledge, Time order, or Statistical Independencies * special seminar, 3:00pm

April 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 4/28 Bin Yu Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley Seeking Interpretable Models for High Dimensional Data * SBJC 4/21 Jon Saetrom Norwegian University of Science and Technology Improved Ensemble Kalman Filter Updating 4/17 Victor Panaretos Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Second-Order Functional Comparison of DNA Loops *Special Joint Statistics Seminar/ Workshop in Biostatistics 4/14 Patrick O.Perry Stanford Unviersity Choosing how many principal components to keep 4/7 Simon Jackman Stanford University Tracking Public Opinion Over the 2008 Election: a hierarchical, dynamic linear model

March 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 3/10 Alexandre Boucher Stanford University Training image-based geostatistical simulations for natural and anthropogenic spatial phenomena 3/03 Cliff Spiegelman Texas A&M University Opportunities and needs for statistical science input into forensic sciences

February 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 2/24 Debashis Paul University of California, Davis Asymptotics of the sample eigenstructure in a large dimensional covariance model when the observations are correlated 2/17 Peter Hansen Stanford University Quadratic Variation by Markov Chains 2/10 Cari Kaufman University of California, Berkeley Functional ANOVA Models for Comparing Sources of Variability in Climate Model Output 2/03 Kay Giesecke Stanford University Risk Analysis of Collateralized Debt Obligations

January 2009

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 1/27 Karim Chine Clout Era, Cambridge, UK Scientific and statisitical computing in the cloud, towards a federative and collaborative R-based platform 1/20 Gareth James University of Southern California Forward-Lasso Adaptive SHrinkage 1/13 Josef Dick The University of New South Wales Quasi-Monte Carlo integration rules achieving arbitrary high order of convergence

December 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/05 Elizabeth Purdom University of California, Berkeley Estimating alternative splicing using next-generation sequencing technology

November 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/18 Charles Chui Stanford University A multi-level approach to function extension and inpainting 11/11 Michael Greenacre Universitat Pompeu Fabra,Barcelona Dynamic visualization of parametrically linked multivariate methods 11/04 Susan Holmes Stanford University Looking at the Data; all the data. How multivariate spatial data can help us see Biology in Situ. *BSJC

October 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/28 Guenther Walther Stanford University Multiple local inference 10/21 Sourav Chatterjee University of California, Berkeley A rigorous theory of chaos in disordered systems 10/14 Jie Peng University of California, Davis Network Inference by High Dimensional Data 10/7 Art Owen Stanford University Pearson's Meta Analysis Revisited

September 2008

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Talk Abstract Comments 9/30 Franck Picard Laboratoire Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive Joint segmentation of multivariate Gaussian process for the analysis of multisample array CGH experiments 9/23 Sofia Olhede University College London Microstructure Bias and Multiscale Inference

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