Abstract links to be added soon.
Fall 2010
| Fall 2010 | Organizer: Thomas Lee | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 23-Sep-10 | Herman Chernoff | Harvard University | P.K. Bhattacharya, I.E. Segal and me: Reminiscences |
| 28-Sep-10 | Dragi Anevski | Lund University (Sweden) | Monotone spectral density estimation |
| 30-Sep-10 | Boaz Nalder | Weizmann Institute of Science | Semi-supervised learning: global vs multiscale methods and harmonic analysis |
| 7-Oct-10 | Brian Kulis | UC Berkeley | Learning transformations for adaptation and search |
| 14-Oct-10 | Guy Nason | Univ. Bristol (UK) | Costationarity of locally stationary time-series |
| 21-Oct-10 | Wolfgang Polonik | Dept Statistics, UC Davis | Testing for modality, residual empirical process and weighted sums for time varying processes |
| 28-Oct-10 | Thomas C.M. Lee | Dept Statistics, UC Davis | Generalized fiducial inference and its application to wavelet regression |
| 4-Nov-10 | Liang Peng | Georgia Tech | Interval Estimation for AR(1) and GARCH(1,1) Models |
| 18-Nov-10 | Jay Breidt | Colorado State | Penalized Balance Sampling |
Winter 2011
| Winter 2011 | Organizer: Jane-Ling Wang | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 6-Jan-11 | Byeong Park | Seoul National U (Korea) | Smooth Backfitting for Generalized Varying Coefficient Models |
| 13-Jan-11 | Wing Hung Wong | Stanford U | Gene Regulatory Networks and Stable Cellular States |
| 20-Jan-11 | David Banks | Duke U | Adversarial Risk Analysis |
| 27-Jan-11 | Richard Grotjahn | Dept of Land, Air & Water Resources, UC Davis | Some extreme statistics aplied to a scheme that downscales upper air data to identify California Central Valley hottest days |
| 10-Feb-11 | George Tiao | U Chicago | Model Heterogeneity in Data Analysis: Detecting Clusters and Outliers via Cross-Validating Predictive Distributions |
| 17-Feb-11 | Hans-Georg Mueller | Statistics, UC Davis | Beyond functional linear regression |
| 24-Feb-11 | Yulia Gel | U Waterloo (Canada) | Banded regularization of autocovariance matrices in application to parameter estimation and forecasting of time series |
| 3-Mar-11 | Joseph Richards | UC Berkeley | Time-Series Classification for Astronomical Surveys |
| 7-Mar-11 (Monday 1:10pm) | Jacek Leskow | Polish-American Grad School of Management, Poland | Resampling methods for nonstationary almost periodic stochastic models |
| 10-Mar-11 *2011 UC BERKELEY/UC DAVIS JOINT COLLOQUIUM* | Rasmus Neilsen | UC Berkeley |
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Spring 2011
| Spring 2011 | Organizer: Paul Baines | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 31-Mar-11 | Klaus-Robert Müller | Technical Univ. Berlin (Germany) | Towards Brain Computer Interfacing |
| 7-Apr-11 | Arnaud Doucet | Univ. British Columbia (Canada) | Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo methods |
| 14-Apr-11 | Xiao-Li Meng (Shumway Lecture I) | Harvard Univ. | Simpson’s paradox and its impact on your life |
| 14-Apr-11 | John Rice (Shumway Lecture II) | UC Berkeley | Time Series Analysis in Astronomy |
| 21-Apr-11 | Andrew Latimer | Plant Sciences, UC Davis | Hierarchical Models for Plant Species Distributions |
| 28-Apr-11 | Fushing Hsieh | Statistics, UC Davis | Rank & Odds: NCAA Football and Rhesus Macaque |
| 5-May-11 | Ana Arribas Gil | Univ Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) | Robust depth-based estimation in the time-warping model |
| 10-May-11 (Tue) | Peter Kim (2011 Joint Math/Stat Colloquium) | Univ. Guelph | Multivariate Topological Data Analysis |
| 12-May-11 | Jiming Jiang | Statistics, UC Davis | Selecting the Lasso/SCAD regularization parameters - the adaptive fence ideas in action |
| 19-May-11 | Ethan Anderes | Statistics, UC Davis | Weighing the Dark Sky |
Summer 2011
| Summer 2011 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 27-Jun-11 |
Wenceslao González Manteiga |
Univ. de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) |
General views of the goodness-of-fit tests for statistical models. Applications in finance and environmental problems |