Department of Statistics,
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Spring 2005 Seminars


Time/Room Speaker Title / Abstract
1/12, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Vladimir Pozdnyakov
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
Method of Gambling Teams and Waiting Times for Patterns
Distinguished Lecture Series
Tuesday, 1/18, 4:30pm
F55 Jon M. Huntsman Hall

Thursday, 1/20, 4:30pm
F55 Jon M. Huntsman Hall

Peter McCullagh
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
1. Exchangeability and Regression Models

2. Prediction and Density Estimation

1/26, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Yaming Yu
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
MCMC via Sufficient and Ancillary Data Augmentation: As Motivated by Poisson Time Series Modeling in X-ray Astrophysics
Monday, 1/31, 4:30pm
F90 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Jon McAuliffe
Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
Statistical Methods for Genome Comparison
Distinguished Lecture Series
Wednesday, 2/2, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall

Thursday, 2/3, 12:00pm
G55 Jon M. Huntsman Hall

Bradley Efron
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
1.Selection and Estimation for Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference

2.Confidence Regions and Inferences for a Multivariate Normal Mean Vector

2/9, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Hui Zou
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Regularization and Variable Selection via the Elastic Net
Monday, 2/14, 4:30pm
F90 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Dimitris Achlioptas
Microsoft Research

A New Look at the Second Moment Method
Thursday, 2/17, 4:30pm
F65 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Tong Zhang
Information and Knowledge Management Department
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
A Framework for Learning Predictive Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data
Monday, 2/21, 4:30pm
F90 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Debashis Paul
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Principal Components Analysis for High Dimensional Data
Tuesday, 3/1, 4:30pm
F65 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Jiashun Jin
Department of Statistics
Purdue University
Sparse Inference in Large Scale Multiple Comparisons and False Discovery Rate Thresholding
3/2, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Hannes Leeb
Department of Statistics
Yale University
On The Large-Sample Minimal Coverage Probability of Confidence Intervals After Model Selection
3/16, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Jeffrey Simonoff
Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences
New York University
Rehabilitating LAD Regression: Breakdown, Smoothing, and Robustness
Links to papers related to talk: 1   2   3
Monday, 3/21, 4:00 pm
395 McNeil
Wolfgang Haerdle
Institute for Statistics and Econometrics
Humboldt University
Econometrics-Statistics Joint Seminar
Implied Volatility String Dyanmics
3/23, 3:00 pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Christopher Genovese
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Uniform Confidence Sets (Adaptive and Non-adaptive) for Nonparametric Regression, with Application to Cosmology
Thursday, 3/24, 3:00 pm
340 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Bin Yu
Department of Statistics
University of California Berkeley
Embracing Statistical Challenges in the Information Technology Age
3/30, 3:00 pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Merrill Liechty
Department of Decision Sciences
Drexel University
Portfolio Selection with Higher Moments: A Bayesian Decision Theoretic Approach
4/6, 3:00 pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Howard Wainer
National Board of Medical Examiners
Value-Added Assessment and Three Challenges to Its Practicality
4/13, 3:00 pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Robert Stine
Department of Statistics
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Variable Selection for Wide Data Sets
4/20, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Jianqing Fan
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Princeton University
Dynamic Integration of Time- and State-domain Methods for Volatility Estimation
4/27, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Per Mykland
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
The Determination of Time-varying Volatility: A Tale of Two Time Scales
Monday, 5/9, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Peter Bickel
Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
On the Borders of Statistics and Computer Science
Thursday, 5/19, 3:00pm
F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Robert Weiss
Department of Biostatistcs
University of California, Los Angeles
Hierarchical Post Processing of Independent Bayesian Data Analyses Using Importance Reweighting of Existing MCMC Samples

Notes:
Refreshments are served at 4:00pm in 440 Jon M. Huntsman Hall after the 3:00pm seminars.

Questions? Email seminar coordinator Dylan Small or Tanya Winder.


Related Seminars:
Biostatistics Seminar
Econometrics Workshop
Rodney White Micro Finance Seminar

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