Seminars
This is a list of seminars and other presentations scheduled thus far
for the current academic year. Please mark these on your calendar and
plan on attending. Good seminar attendance not only benefits
attendees, but also the reputation of the Department.
Seminars will be from 3:00 to 4:00 except as noted. For each seminar
we will circulate an announcement including the seminar title and
abstract about two weeks in advance .
Optimal Estimation of Multidimensional Normal Means with Unknown Variances
Dr. Xu Han
Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Princeton University
Friday January 29, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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TBA
Prof. Jiashun Jin
Carnegie Mellon University
February 12, 2010
TBA
Prof. Minge Xie
Rutgers University
March 5, 2010
TBA
Prof. Cun-hui Zhang
Rutgers University
April 16, 2010
Past Seminars
TBA
George Zanjani
George State University
Thursday, December 3, 2009
1:30pm - 3:00pm
621 Alter Hall, Samsung Room
Supervised Dimensionality Reduction Via Convex Optimization
Dr. Yuhong Guo
Temple University
Friday, November 13, 2009
3:00pm - 4:00pm
746 Alter Hall
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Incentive Mechanisms for Safe Driving: A Comparative Analysis with Dynamic Data
Georges Dionne
Thursday, November 12, 2009
1:30pm -3:00pm
621 Alter Hall, Samsung Room
RExcel for Teaching and Using Statistics
Richard Heiberger
Temple University
Friday, November 6, 2009
3:00 - 4:00pm
746 Alter Hall
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Dimension Folding Of Matrix-Or Array-Value Statistical Objects
Bing Li
Penn State University
Friday, October 30, 2009
3:00 - 4:00pm
Alter Hall 746
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Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Impact of Bad Faith Liability on Automobile Insurance Settlements
Sharon Tennyson
Cornell University
Thursday, October 22, 2009
1:30pm - 3:00pm
621 Alter Hall, Samsung Room
Non-parametric Empirical Bayes and Compound Bayes Estimation of Independent Normal Means
Dr. Lawrence D. Brown
Statistics Department, Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, October 9, 2009
3:00-4:00PM
Alter Hall 746
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Reliability-Constrained Latent Structure Models
Dr. Peter H. Westfall
Texas Tech University
Friday, October 2, 2009
3:30 - 4:30pm
231 Alter Hall
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TBA
Jennifer Wang
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Monday, September 28, 2009
1:30pm - 3:00pm
621 Alter Hall, Samsung Room
A 'Coefficient of Variation' for Skewed and Heavy-Tailed Insurance Losses
Michael R. Powers
Temple University
Thursday, September 10, 2009
1:30pm - 3:00pm
621 Alter Hall, Samsung Room
Establishing Geometric Ergodicity for Block Gibbs Samplers
Dr. Alicia Johnson
University of Minnesota
Friday, February 13, 2009
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Speakman Hall 113
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Modeling Dependent Expression Data
Dr. Donatello Telesca
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Thursday, February 12, 2009
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 746
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Response-Adaptive Designs: Some Reflections and Some Results
Dr. Nancy Flournoy
University of Missouri
Thursday, February 5, 2009
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 318
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Dimension Reduction for Non-Elliptically Distributed Predictors
Yuexiao Dong
The Pennsylvania State University
Saturday, January 28, 2009
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 203AB
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Comparison of Treatment Effects—An Empirical Likelihood Based Method
Dr. Haiyan Su
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Friday, January 23, 2009
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Speakman Hall 113
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Data Analysis in Genome-Scale RNAi Research
Dr. Xiaohua Zhang
Biometrics Research, Merck Research Laboratories
Friday, December 5, 2008
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 203AB
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Asymptotics of Time Dependent Autoregressive Processes
Dr. Sreenivas Konda
Department of Statistics, Temple University
Friday, November 14, 2008
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 203AB
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A Graphical Approach to Sequentially Rejective Multiple Test Procedures
Dr. Frank Bretz
Statistical Methodology, Novartis and
Department of Biometry, Medical University of Hanover, Germany
Friday, November 7, 2008
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 203AB
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Assessing Significance in Finite Mixture Models
Dr. Ruth Heller
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, October 31, 2008
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 203AB
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Assessing Significance in Finite Mixture Models
Dr. Ranjan Maitra
Iowa State University
Friday, October 10, 2008
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 203AB
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Variable Selection for Varying-Coefficient Models for Genomic Applications
Dr. Hongzhe Li
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Friday, October 3, 2008
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 203AB
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The Ethical Statistician
Dr. Bruce H. Stanley
Biostatistician, DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition
Friday, March 7, 2008
3:00-4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 304
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Statistical Methods for Inferring Gene Regulatory Modules and Networks
Dr. Jun Xie
Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Friday, February 22, 2008
3:00-4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 304
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Analysis of Experiments Using Empirical Bayes Techniques
Dr. James D. Delaney
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 394
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Parameter Estimation of Bias Correction for Diffusion Processes
Cheng Yong Tang
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
Friday, December 7, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 318
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On Large Margin Hierarchical Classification
Dr. Junhui Wang
Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 401A
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Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of Positive False Discovery Rate
Anindya Roy
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Friday, October 19, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 401B
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Mean Squared Prediction Error, Estimation in Mixed Models
Tapabrata Maiti
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
Friday, October 12, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 401B
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Application of False Discovery Rate Methods in Clinical Trials
Dr. Joseph F. Heyse
Vice-President of Early Development Statistics, Merck Research Laboratories
Friday, October 5, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Tuttleman Learning Center 401B
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Bayesian Hidden Markov Modeling of Array-CGH Data
Subharup Guha
Harvard School of Public Health
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 318
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Partly Functional Temporal Process Regression with Semiparametric Profile Estimating Functions
Jun Yan
The University of Iowa
Friday, January 19, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 318
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Aggregation of Time-and State-Domain Methods for Volatility Matrix Estimation
Yingying Fan
Princeton University
Monday, January 22, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 318
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Bayesian Semiparametric Methodfor Pathway Analysis
Inyoung Kim
Yale University
Friday, January 26, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 318
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Bayesian Hidden Markov Modeling of Array-CGH Data
Subharup Guha
Harvard School of Public Health
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
3:00-4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 318
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