Fall 2008 Seminars

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Time (4:30p.m)	Speaker	Title	Room
Sept. 10	Henry Wynn- London School of Economics	Junction Tubes: Reduction in Complexity of a Class of Marginal Model Factorizations	F90 Huntsman Hall
Sept. 17	Philip Long- Google Inc.	Boosting With Misclassification Noise	F90 Huntsman Hall
Sept. 22 (Mon)	Andrew Gelman- Columbia	Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do	109 Annenberg School for Communication 3620 Walnut Street
Sept. 24	Glen Meeden- University of Minnesota	A Noninformative Bayesian Approach To Finite Population Sampling Using Auxiliary Variables	F90 Huntsman Hall
Oct. 1	Richard Berk- Penn	Statisticians as Crime-Fighting Super Heroes	F90 Huntsman Hall
Oct. 7 (Tues)	Michael Lavine- UMass	Optical Images of the Brain During Surgery: Detection of Hemodynamics in Response to Electrical Stimulus	F70 Huntsman Hall
Oct. 8	Rong Chen- Rutgers	Lookahead in Sequential Monte Carlo	F90 Huntsman Hall
Oct. 15	Alan Krueger- Princeton	Job Search and Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Time Use Data In The U.S. And Europe Paper 1 Paper 2	F90 Huntsman Hall
Monday Oct. 20 (10:00am)	Ingram Olkin- Stanford University	Life Distributions in Survival Analysis and Reliability: Structure of Semiparametric Families	701 Blockley Hall 418 Guardian Drive
Oct. 22	Martin Wegkamp- Florida State	Generalized Support Vector Machines in Sparse Settings	F90 Huntsman Hall
Oct. 29	Michael Kearns- Penn	Collective Behavior And Machine Learning	F90 Huntsman Hall
Nov. 5  (3:00pm)	Xihong Lin- Harvard	Statistical Inference In Regularized Regression For Variable Selection	265 Huntsman Hall
Nov. 12	Peihua Qiu- University of Minnesota	Comparison Of Two Hazard Rate Functions	F90 Huntsman Hall
Nov. 19	No Seminar
Nov. 24 (Mon)	Ishay Weissman	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	F55 Huntsman Hall
Nov. 26	No Seminar
Dec. 3	Robert Bell- AT&T Inc.	The Netflix Prize: Quest For 1,000,000	F90 Huntsman Hall
Dec 9 (Tues 3:00pm)	James Robins-Harvard School of Public Health	Higher Order Influence Functions and Minimax Estimation of Nonlinear Functionals	F90 Huntsman Hall

Notes:
Refreshments are served at 4:00pm in 440 Jon M. Huntsman Hall before the 4:30pm seminar.

Questions? Email seminar coordinator Adam Greenberg or Tanya Winder

Related Seminars:

Wharton Research Seminar
Biostatistics Seminar
Econometrics Workshop
Rodney White Micro Finance Seminar

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