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Statistics Seminar Series Archive


 Mathias Drton
Mathias Drton
Seminar Chairman

SPRING QUARTER 2008

MONDAY, March 31, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

NO SEMINAR: First day of classes.


MONDAY, April 7, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

QIWEI YAO
Department of Statistics, London School of Economics
Modelling High Dimensional Daily Volatilities Based on High-Frequency Data

TUESDAY, April 8, 2008 at 12:00 PM
120 KENT HALL, 1020 East 58th Street.

ERIC VIGODA
College of Computing, Georgia Institte of Technology
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms



MONDAY, April 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM
BSLC #008, 924 E. 57th Street

JOHN REINITZ
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY-Stony Brook
Canalization of Transcription in the Drosophila Blastoderm: From Data to Dynamical Systems

Joint talk with OBA, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, and Statistics.

WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

JOHN REINITZ
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY-Stony Brook
Parallel Simulated Annealing by Reproduction and Annihilation of States
MONDAY, April 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

JI ZHU
Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
Group Variable Selection via Hierarchical Lasso and Its Oracle Property


MONDAY, April 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

DAG TJOSTHEIM
Department of Statistics, University of Bergen, Norway
Gaussian Local Likelihood and Local Correlation


MONDAY, May 5, 2008 and THURSDAY, May 8, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
STUART GEMAN
Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Rare Events in the Financial Markets (Monday talk)
and
On the Peculiar Statistics of Natural Images (Thursday talk)

MONDAY, May 12, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

MICHAEL PERLMAN
Department of Statistics, The University of Washington
The Role of Reversals in Statistical inference: Two Vignettes


MONDAY, May 19, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

LELAND WILKINSON
SYSTAT and Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Scagnostics

MONDAY, May 26, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

NO SEMINAR: Memorial Day


Seminars are followed by refreshments and informal discussion. Speakers may be faculty members, visitors, or students. Typically a speaker will present an introduction and survey of a particular problem, application, or research area of current statistical interest. Seminars usually last 50 minutes, with additional time for discussion.

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Please send email to Mathias Drton (drton@galton.uchicago.edu) for further information. Information about building access for persons with disabilities may be obtained in advance by calling Jewanna Carver at 773-834-5169 or by email (carver@galton.uchicago.edu).