Spring 2008 Seminars

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Time (3:00p.m)	Speaker	Title	Room
Jan. 16	Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University	A General Recipe for Semi-parametric and Non-parametric Estimation With Incomplete and Irregularly Spaced Data	F65 Huntsman Hall
Jan. 16 (4:30Pm)	Hadley Wickham, Iowa State University	A grammar of graphics (in R)	F55 Huntsman Hall
January 23	Kshitij Deepak Khare, Stanford University	From Markov Chains to Gaussian Priors and Back	F65 Huntsman Hall
January 30	Yiyuan She, Stanford University	Sparse Regression With Exact Clustering	F65 Huntsman Hall
February 6	Guy Lebanon, Purdue University	Modeling Partially Ranked Data Using The Symmetric Group And Its Cosets	F65 Huntsman Hall
February 8 (11am)	Eric Tchetgen, Harvard University	Novel Applications of U-Statistics: Robust Inference In The Semilinear Regression Model And Optimal Model Selection With Data Missing At Random	F70 Huntsman Hall
February 20	Larissa Stanberry, University of Washington	Bayesian Boundary Restoration Using Splines	F65 Huntsman Hall
February 22	Maria-Florina Balcan, Carnegie Mellon University	A Theory of Similarity Functions For Learning And Clustering	109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
February 25	Avi Mandelbaum, Technoion-Israel	QED Queues: Quality- and Efficiency-Driven Call Centers	G50 Huntsman Hall
February 27	Sasha (Alexander Rakhlin), University of California, Berkeley	Statistics Meets Optimization: A New Look At The Age-Old Multi-Armed Bandit Problem.	F65 Huntsman Hall
March 3	Gilles Stoltz, National Center For Scientific Research	Sequential Forecasting Of Individual Sequences	G50 Huntsman Hall
March 5	Edoardo Airoldi, Princeton University	Bayesian Analysis Of Complex Biological Systems	F65 Huntsman Hall
March 12	Yuzo Marayama, University of Tokyo	A new Bayesian variable selection criterion based on a g-prior extension for p > n	440 Huntsman Hall
March 19	Larry Shepp, Rutgers University	Open Problems Of Current Interest To Me	F65 Huntsman Hall
March 26	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
April 2	Donald Richards, The Pennsylvania State University	Statistical Inference With Monotone Incomplete Multivariate Normal Data	F65 Huntsman Hall
April 9	Ping Li, Cornell University	Compressed Counting	F65 Huntsman Hall
April11(2:00p.m)	Richard Samworth,University of Cambridge	Some thoughts on nonparameteric classification: nearest neighbours, bagging and maximum likelihood estimation of shape-constrained densities	F65 Huntsman Hall
April 16	A. Philip Dawid, University of Cambridge	Prequential Statistics /A. Philip Dawid	F65 Huntsman Hall
April 23	Richard A. Davis, Columbia University	Structural Break Detection For Nonlinear Time Series	F65 Huntsman Hall
April 30	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
May 7	Robert Schapire, Princeton University	Maximum Entropy and Species Distribution Modeling	F65 Huntsman Hall

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

Questions? Email seminar coordinator Tanya Winder or Abba Krieger .

Related Seminars:

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

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