| Time/Room | Speaker | Title / Abstract |
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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 | ||
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Tuesday, 1/18, 4:30pm F55 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Thursday, 1/20, 4:30pm
|
Peter
McCullagh Department of Statistics University of Chicago |
1. Exchangeability and
Regression
Models
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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 |
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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 | ||
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Wednesday, 2/2, 3:00pm F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Thursday, 2/3, 12:00pm
|
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 |
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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 |
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Monday, 2/21, 4:30pm F90 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Debashis Paul
Department of Statistics Stanford University |
Principal Components Analysis for High Dimensional Data |
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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.