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Fall 2009
| Fall 2009 |
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Organizer: Ethan Anderes |
| Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| 1-Oct-09 |
Jiguo Cao |
Simon Fraser U. |
Statistical Inference for Differential Equations |
| 8-Oct-09 |
Nancy Zhang |
Stanford U. |
Simultaneous change-point models with applications to cross-sample and cross-platform analysis of DNA copy number |
| 15-Oct-09 |
Chad M. Shafer |
Carnegie Mellon U. |
Testing Cosmological Theories: Methodology for the Inference Challenges |
| 22-Oct-09 |
Samuel Kou |
Harvard |
Statistical inference in nanoscale biophysics |
| 29-Oct-09 |
James Flegal |
UC Riverside |
Batch Means and Spectral Variance Estimators in Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| 30-Oct-09 (Friday) |
Vic Patrangenaru |
Florida State U |
Tests for Mean P-Quaternion Objects and Glaucomatous Change Detection from Stereoscopic images of the Eye Fundus. |
| 5-Nov-09 |
Petr Janata |
Psychology, UC Davis |
Music, Probability and the Brain |
| 12-Nov-09 |
Laurie Davies |
U Duisburg-Essen (Germany) |
Approximating Data |
| 19-Nov-09 |
Naoki Saito |
Dept Math, UC Davis |
Laplacian eigenfunctions that do not feel the boundary: Theory, Computation and Applications |
| 3-Dec-09 |
Christopher Paciorek |
UC Berkeley |
The importance of scale for spatial-confounding bias and precision of spatial regression estimators
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Winter 2010
| Winter 2010 |
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Organizer: Debashis Paul |
| Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| 4-Jan-10 |
Armin Schwartzman |
Harvard U |
Inference for Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Diffusion Tensors |
| 14-Jan-10 |
Hua Zhou |
UCLA |
Optimization in Some High-Dimensional Statistical Problems |
| 19-Jan-10 |
Daniela Witten |
Stanford |
A Penalized Matrix Decomposition, with Application to Sparse Clustering |
| 21-Jan-10 |
Veronica Berrocal |
SAMSI |
Downscaling outputs from numerical models |
| 25-Jan-10 |
Paul Baines |
Harvard University |
Staring at the Black Box: Statistical Inference in the Physical Sciences |
| 28-Jan-10 |
Han Liu |
Carnegie Mellon |
Nonparametric Learning in High Dimensions |
| 4-Feb-10 |
Michael McAssey |
UC Davis |
Slope estimation in structural line-segment heteroscedastic measurement error models |
| 11-Feb-10 |
Suhasini Subba Rao |
Texas A&M |
A test for second order stationarity of a time series basd on the Discrete Fourier Transform |
| 18-Feb-10 |
Fushing Hsieh |
UC Davis |
Time, temperature and data cloud geometry |
| 25-Feb-10 |
Robert Serfling |
U Texas, Dallas |
Constructing Nonparametric Multivariate Outlyingness Functions that are Robust, Computationally Easy, Affine Invariant, and Efficient |
| 4-Mar-10 |
Ji Zhu |
U Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Extracting Communities from Networks |
| 10-Mar-10 |
Laurie Davies |
U Duisberg-Essen (Germany), visiting UC Davis |
L_0, L_01, L_2 and the analysis of variance |
| 11-Mar-10 |
Matthias Drton |
U Chicago |
Likelihood ratio tests and singularities |
| 16-Mar-10 |
Jim Ramsay |
McGill U (Retired) |
Linear models for output-buffered systems |
| 16-Mar-10 |
Jim Ramsay |
McGill U (Retired) |
Research Challenges for functional Data Analysis |
Spring 2010
| Spring 2010 |
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Organizer: Prabir Burman |
| Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| 8-Apr-10 |
George Roussas |
Dept Statistics, UC Davis |
Probability and Statistics Throughout the Centuries |
| 22-Apr-10 |
Oscar Jorda |
Dept Economics, UC Davis |
Empirical Simultaneous Confidence Regions for Path Forecasts |
| 29-Apr-10 |
Rudy Beran |
Dept Statistics, UC Davis |
The Unbearable Transparency of Stein Estimation |
| 6-May-10 |
Saunak Sen |
UC San Francisco |
Selective genotyping and phenotyping strategies in a complex trait context |
| 13-May-10 |
Bin Yu |
UC Berkeley |
Sparse modeling: some unifying theory and understanding human visual pathway |
| 20-May-10 |
Julia Salzman |
Stanford |
Statistical Modeling of RNA-Seq data |
| 25-May-10 (1:10pm) |
Yichao Wu |
North Carolina State U |
An ordinary differential equation based solution path algorithm |
| 27-May-10 |
Nicolas Verzelen |
INRA Montpellier (visiting UC Davis) |
Estimation of Gaussian graphs by model |
| 28-May-10 |
Iain Johnstone |
Stanford U (Joint Math/Stat Colloquium) |
Largest eigenvalues and eigenvectors in multivariate statistical analysis |
| 1-Jun-10 (1:10pm) |
Damla Senturk |
PennState U |
Functional varying coeffiecient models for longitudinal data |
| 3-Jun-10 |
Candace Metoyer |
Intel Corp. |
Reacting to new information: the use of monthly data to inform a quarterly forecast |
Summer 2010
| Spring 2010 |
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Organizer: Prabir Burman |
| Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| 9-Aug-10 |
Byeoung Park |
Seoul National University, Korea |
Smooth Backfitting for Variant Coefficient Regression Models |
