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 .
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
Download the abstract (in pdf format)
Past Seminars
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
Download the abstract (in pdf format)
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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