Fall 2009 Seminars

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Time (4:30p.m)	Speaker	Title	Room
September 16	Yingnian Wu – UCLA	From Wavelet Sparse Coding to Visual Pattern Modeling	F60 JMHH
September 23	Larry Shepp - Rutgers	Two Old and New Problems in Probability Theory	F60 JMHH
September 30	Ming Yuan – Georgia Tech	Learning with Many Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces	F60 JMHH
October 7	Nilanjan Chatterjee – NIH/NCI	Analysis of Case-Control Studies in Genomic Epidemiology: Efficiency Beyond Semi-Parametric Bounds?	F60 JMHH
October 14	John Sall – SAS Institute	Breaking the Apparent Rules	F60 JMHH
October 21	Larry Wasserman - CMU	Nonparametric Filament Estimation	F60 JMHH
October 28	No Seminar
November 2 (Monday)	Guenther Walther - Stanford	Optimal and Fast Detection of Spatial Clusters with Scan Statistics	F60 JMHH
November 4	James Robins – Harvard University	Higher Order Influence Functions and Minimax Estimation of Non-linear Functionals	F60 JMHH
November 11	Nicoleta Serban – Georgia Tech	Model-Based Data Mining for Functional Data under Spatial Interdependence	F60 JMHH
November 18	Zhiqiang Tan - Rutgers	Understanding and Improving Propensity Score Methods	F60 JMHH
December 2	Jasjeet Sekhon – UC Berkeley	Combining Experimental and Observational Data to Estimate Population Treatment Effects: New Methods and the Case of Pulmonary Artery Catheterization	F60 JMHH
December 9	Harrison Zhou - Yale		F60 JMHH

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:

Spring 2009 Seminar schedule

Wharton Research Seminar
Biostatistics Seminar
Econometrics Workshop

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