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.
Functional Robust Support Vector Machines for Sparse and Irregular Longitudinal Data
Yichao Wu
NC State University, Raleigh
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 746
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Tolerance Intervals in General Mixed Effects Models Using Small Sample Asymptotics
Thomas Mathew
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Friday, May 4, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 744
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Efficiency and Consistency for Regularization Parameter
Selection in Penalized Regression:
Asymptotics and Finite-Sample Corrections
Jeffrey Simonoff
New York University
Friday, April 20, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 748
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Multiple Loci Mapping by Penalized Regression
Wei Sun
University of North Carolina
Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 745
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Spectral Analytic Comparisons for Data Augmentation
Vivekananda Roy
Iowa State University
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 748
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Genetics Studies of Multivariate Traits
Heping Zhang
Yale University
Friday, March 30, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 748
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A Nonparametric Prior for Simultaneous Covariance Estimation
Michael Daniels
University of Florida
Friday, March 23, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 233
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Some Recent Developments of the Support Vector Machine
Yufeng Liu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Friday, March 16, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 748
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Cross-sample Profiling of Genomic Copy Number Changes
Nancy Zhang
University of Pennsylvania
Friday, February 24, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 748
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Matern Class of Cross-Covariance Functions for Multivariate Random Fields
Tatiyana V. Apanasovich
Thomas Jefferson University
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 233
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Scale Mixture Representations
Paul Damien
University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
Friday, February 17, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 748
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Scalable Statistical Estimation Methods for large, Time-Varying Networks
David Hunter
Penn State University
Friday, February 10, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 748
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Applying Multiple Testing Procedures to Astronomical Source Discovery and East African Vegetation Change Detection
Dr. Nicolle Clements
Department of Statistics
Friday, December 2, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 746
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Bootstrap Confidence Bands for the CDF Using Ranked-Set Sampling
Dr. Jesse Frey
Villanova University
Friday, November 11, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speakman Hall 114
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On Dimensionality of Mean Structure from a Single Data Matrix
Dr. Xuming He
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
Friday, November 4, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Alter Hall 746
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Efficiency, Robustness, and Regularization via Disparities
Dr. Anand Vidyashankar
Department of Statistics
George Mason University
Friday, October 28, 2011
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Alter Hall 746
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Matrix-based Concordance Correlation
Coefficient for Repeated Measures
Dr. Vernon Chinchilli
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
Friday, October 21, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
Alter Hall 746
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Efficient Regressions via Optimally Combining Quantile Information
Dr. Zhibiao Zhao
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
Friday, October 14, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
Speakman Hall 215
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Continuously Additive Models for Functional Regression
Dr. Yichao Wu
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
Friday, October 7, 2011
1:30 – 2:30 PM
Alter Hall 746
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A New Bayesian Variable Selection Method
for Disease Association Mapping
Dr. Yu Zhang
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
Friday, September 30, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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SMACS to Thrive @ DMS
Dr. Sastry G. Pantula
Director of DMS (Division of Mathematical Sciences)
NSF (National Science Foundation)
Friday, September 23, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Feature Screening via Distance Correlation Learning
Dr. Runze Li
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
Friday, September 16, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Spectral Magic
Dr. David Stoffer
Department of Statistics
University of Pitssburgh
Friday April 1, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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A Statistical Analysis of Multiple Temperature Proxies: Are Reconstructions of Surface Temperatures Over the Last 1000 Years Reliable?
Abraham J. Wyner
University of Pennsylvania
Friday April 1, 2011
10:30-11:30 1m
746 Alter Hall
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Past Seminars
Multi-Resolution Inference of Stochastic Models from Partially Observed Data
Dr. Samuel Kou
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Friday March 18, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Learning Representations for Language for Domain Adaptation
Dr. Alexander Yates
Deparment of Computer & Information Sciences
Temple University
Friday March 4, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Functional Clustering and Change Point Estimation in FMRI Studies
Dr. Lucy Robinson
Deparment of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday March 2, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
748 Alter Hall
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False Discovery Control Under Arbitrary Dependence
Dr. Xu Han
Deparment of Operations Research & Financial Engineering
Princeton University
Friday February 25, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Adjusted Bayesian Inference for Selected Parameters
Dr. Daniel Yekutieli
Friday February 18, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
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Quality Assessment of Search Terms in Spoken Term Detection
Dr. Joseph Picone
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Temple University
Friday January 21, 2011
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Penalized Composite Quasi-Likelihood for Ultrahigh-Dimensional Variable Selection
Dr. Jelena Bradic
Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Princeton University
Thursday December 16, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Semiparametric Bayesian Model for Bivariate Sparse Longitudinal Data
Dr. Kiranmoy Das
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
Tuesday December 7, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Adaptive Model Selection in Linear Mixed Models with Application to Hormone Levels Data
Dr. Bo Zhang
Department of Bioinformantics
National Institute of Health
Friday December 3, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Model Selection and Sharp Asymptotic Minimaxity
Dr. Harrison Zhou
Department of Statistics
Yale University
Friday November 19, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Optimal Sparse Segment Identification with Application in copy Number Variation Analysis
Dr. Hongzhe Li
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday November 17, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
214 Speakman Halll
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Functional Boxplots for Complex Data Visualization
Dr. Marc G. Genton
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Friday November 12, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Efficient Semiparametric Distribution Estimation in Mixed Samples
Dr. Yanyuan Ma
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Thursday November 11, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Fitting Nonstationary Models to Electroencephalogram Time Series
Dr. Sreenivas Konda
Department of Statistics
Temple University
Friday November 5, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Optimal and Efficient Designs for Generalized Linear Models
Dr. John Stufken
Department of Statistics
University of Georgia
Friday October 22, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Refitted Cross-Validation in Ultrahigh Dimensional Regression
Dr. Jianqing Fan
Department of Operation Research and financial Engineering
Princeton University
Friday October 15, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Einstein: Comments on Today's Statistics
Dr. Boris Iglewicz
Department of Statistics
Temple University
Friday October 8, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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Optimal Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices
Dr. Tony Cai
Department of Statistics
The Wharton School
University Pennsylvania
Friday October 1, 2010
3:00-4:00 pm
746 Alter Hall
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