Department of Statistics,
    University of Pennsylvania

Fall 2006 Seminars

Time/Room Speaker Title / Abstract
Wednesday, September 13th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Sourav Chatterjee
Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
Normal approximation: A new insight and a simple method
Wednesday, September 20th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Athanasios Kottas
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bayesian nonparametric modeling for stochastically ordered distributions
Wednesday, September 27th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Chris Hans
Department of Statistics
The Ohio State University
Stochastic search in high-dimensional model spaces
Wednesday, October 4th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Eitan Greenshtein
Department of Statistics
UNC Chapel Hill
Estimation of a high-dimensional vector of means: a non-Bayesian empirical Bayes approach.
Wednesday, October 11th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Marc Hallin
Statistics and Operations Research Institute, and
Department of Mathematics
Free University of Brussels
The general dynamic factor model: determining the number of factors
Wednesday, October 18th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
David Blei
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
Modeling Science: Topic models of scientific journals and other large text databases
Wednesday, October 25th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Qiwei Yao
Statistics Department
London School of Economics
Modelling multiple time series via common factors
Wednesday, November 1st, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Eric Stone
Statistics Department
North Carolina State University
Robustness of the phylogenetic comparative method
Wednesday, November 8th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Jianqing Fan
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Princeton University
Option pricing with aggregation of physical models and statistical learning
SPECIAL SEMINAR
Tuesday, November 14th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room 270
Philip Dawid
Department of Statistical Science
University College London
Interpreting DNA profile evidence in complex disputed paternity cases: Bayesian networks to the rescue
Wednesday, November 15th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Xuming He
Statistics Department
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Power transformation towards a linear regression quantile
Wednesday, November 29th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Richard Berk
Criminology Department and Statistics Department
University of Pennsylvania
Counting the homeless in Los Angeles County
Wednesday, December 6th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Haipeng Shen
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Interday forecasting and intraday updating of call center arrivals
Tuesday, December 12th, 3:00pm
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60
Nicolai Meinshausen
Statistics Department
University of California, Berkeley
Lasso-type recovery of sparse representations for high-dimensional data

Notes:

The seminar takes place Wednesdays, 3:00 PM, in room F60 of Jon M. Huntsman Hall (JMHH).

Refreshments are served at 4:00 PM in 440 JMHH after the 3:00pm seminars.

Questions? Email seminar coordinator Jon McAuliffe or Tanya Winder.



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