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Fall 2011
| Fall 2011 | Organizer: Fushing Hsieh | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 29-Sep-11 | Galina Hale | Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco | Global banking network and international capital flows |
| 6-Oct-11 | Brad Barber | Graduate School of Management, UC Davis | The earnings announcement premium around the globe |
| 13-Oct-11 | Andrew Sornborger | Dept Math, Georgia U | A multivariate, multitaper approach to detecting and estimating harmonic response in optical imaging data |
| 20-Oct-11 | Dawei Lin | Genome Center, UC Davis | Digitizing biology through high-through DNA sequencing |
| 27-Oct-11 | Noreddine El Karoui | Dept Statistics, UC Berkeley | Some remarks on penalized and robust regression in high-dimension |
| 1-Nov-11 | Victor Panaretos | Ecole Polytechniqe Fédérale Lausanne, Switzerland | Second-order comparison of functional properties and the mechanical properties of DNA |
| 3-Nov-11 | Patrice Koehl | Dept Computer Science / Genome Center, UC Davis | Protein structure and sequence spaces: how big are they? |
| 9-Nov-11 | Raj Rao Nadakuditi | Dept Electrical Engineering, Univ Michigan | Random matrix theory and the informational limit of eigen-analysis |
| 10-Nov-11 | Sandrine Dudoit | Dept Statistics, UC Berkeley | Normalization and Differential Expression in RNA-Seq |
| 17-Nov-11 | Ori Davidov | U Haifa, Israel | The linear stochastic order and directed inference for multivariate ordered distributions |
| 1-Dec-11 | Anne Smith | Dept Anesthesiology & Pain Med, UC Davis | Statistics for understanding learning in neurophysiological experiments |
Winter 2012
| Winter 2012 | Organizer: Jie Peng | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 12-Jan-12 | Vladimir Filkov | Dept Computer Sci, UC Davis | From architecture to function in biological networks |
| 19-Jan-12 | Andrea Montanari | Dept Electrical Engineering & Statistics, Stanford U | Sharp thresholds in statistical estimation |
| 26-Jan-12 | Owen Carmichael | Dept Neurology / Dept Computer Sci, UC Davis | Statistical challenges in diffusion MRI and resting state functional MRI |
| 2-Feb-12 | Hao Zhang | Dept Statistics, Purdue U | Infill asymptotics in spatial statistics |
| 9-Feb-12 | Daniel Vogel | Dept Statistics, Technishe Universität, Dortmund | An efficient and robust test for change-point in correlation |
| 16-Feb-12 | Paul Baines | Dept Statistics, UC Davis | Interwoven EM algorithms |
| 22-Feb-12 | Yun Song | Dept EECS / Dept Statistics, UC Berkeley | Sampling distributions in evolutional biology |
| 23-Feb-12 | Martin Wainwright | Dept EECS / Dept Statistics, UC Berkeley | Sparse and smooth: an optimal convex relaxation for high-dimensional kernel regression |
| 1-Mar-12 | Bruce Rannala | Genome Center, UC Davis | A Bayesian approach to species dlimitation |
| 8-Mar-12 | Lexin Li | Dept Statistics, North Carolina State U | Tensor regression with applications in neuroimaging data analysis |
| 15-Mar-12 | Alexander Soshnikov | Dept Math, UC Davis | On outliers in the spectrum of finite rank deformations of Wigner matrices |
Spring 2012
| Spring 2012 | Organizer: Chris Drake | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 4-Apr-12 | Michael Jordan (Math/Stat Symposium) |
UC Berkeley |
Statistics and computation in the age of massive data |
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5-Apr-12* *1:10pm, MSB 1143 |
Hongwei Zhao | Texas A&M | Generalized redistribute-to-the-right algorithm: application to the analysis of censored cost data |
| 5-Apr-12 | Liza Levina | U Michigan | Consistency of community detection and probability models in networks |
| 9-Apr-12 | Chunming Zhang | U Wisconsin | Robust inference in regression and classification methods for large dimensional data |
| 12-Apr-12 | Nello Cristianini | U Bristol, UK | Patterns in news and social media content |
| 19-Apr-12 | Nicoleta Serban | Georgia Tech | Multilevel functional clustering analysis |
| 26-Apr-12 | George Fein (2012 Shumway Lecture) | President, Neurological Behavioral Research Inc | The 'noise' in ERP studies of alcoholics contains a signal of potential crucial importance |
| 3-May-12 | Rasmus Nielsen | UC Berkeley |
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| 9-May-12 (UC Berkeley/ UC Davis Colloquium) | Edward Ionides | U Michigan | Inference for partially observed stochastic dynamic systems |
| 10-May-12 | Shaw-Hwa Lo | Columbia U | Locating a few needles in a haystack: discovering infleuntial variables: a review |
| 17-May-12 | Debashis Paul | UC Davis | A regularization of Hotelling's $T^2$ for hih-dimensional data |
| 24-May-12 | Hung Chen | National Taiwan U | On effectiveness of k-means clustering of functional data with marginal covariance matrix |
| 31-May-12 | Anna Panorska | U Nevada, Reno | Trivariate models for stochastic episodes with applications to hydrology, climate and finance |
Summer 2012
| Summer 2012 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
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9-Aug-12 4:10pm |
Jeng-Min Chiou | Academia Sinica (Taiwan) | Functional Mixture Prediction with Application to Traffic Flow Analysis |
| 30-Aug-12 2:10pm | Andreas Jensen | University of Southern Denmark | Discrimination of marked point processes with applications in cacner research |