Statistics Seminar Series Archive

WINTER QUARTER 2008

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

JOHN LAFFERTY
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Functional Sparsity

MONDAY, January 14, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

KATIE POLLARD
University of California, Davis, Genome Center
Rapid Evolution in the Human Genome

MONDAY, January 21, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

NO SEMINAR
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY

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

DONALD ANDREWS
Department of Economics, Yale University
Subsampling and the m Out of n Bootstrap in Non-regular Models

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

ROBERT ADLER
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, and Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
From Statistics to Topology and Back Again

This is a joint talk with the Department of Mathematics.


MONDAY, February 11, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

HONGZHE LI
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
Statistical Methods for Network-Based Analysis of Genomic Data


MONDAY, February 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

AZEEM M. SHAIKH
Department of Economics, The University of Chicago
Inference for Partially Identified Econometrics


MONDAY, February 25, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

NO SEMINAR

TUESDAY, February 26, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

URI EDEN
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
Point Process Filters Applied to the Analysis of Spiking Neural Systems


MONDAY, March 3, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

FLORENTINA BUNEA
Department of Statistics, Florida State University
On $ell_1$ Regularization and Sparsity in High Dimensions


THURSDAY, March 6, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

XIAO WANG
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Recruitment Candidate
Mathematical Modeling of Synthetic Networks Reveals
Joint seminar with BEN MAY DEPARTMENT FOR CANCER RESEARCH


MONDAY, March 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

ERIC XING
Departments of Machine Learning, Language Technology Institute, and Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Genetic Inference

Joint seminar with Ecology and Evolution.


THURSDAY, March 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.

HAN LIANG
Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago
Architecture and Regulation of Human Protein Interaction Network: A View of Systems Biology

Joint seminar with Ecology and Evolution.


AUTUMN QUARTER 2007

MONDAY, September 24, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

NO SEMINAR: First day of classes.


MONDAY, October 1, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

JUN LIU
Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Bayesian Inference of Genetic Epistasis in Case-control Studies

MONDAY, October 8, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

DEBASHIS PAUL
Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
Limiting Spectral Distribution of a Separable Covariance Matrix

MONDAY, October 15, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

LIZA LEVINA
Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
Regularized Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices

MONDAY, October 22, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

JIANXIN PAN
School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Variable Selection in Joint Modelling of Mean-covariance Structures for Longitudinal Data

MONDAY, October 29, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

ALEXANDER SHAPIRO
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Computational Complexity of Two and Multistage Stochastic Programming Problems

MONDAY, November 5, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.


MONDAY, November 12, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

ARNAUD DOUCET
Departments of Computer Science and Statistics, University of British Columbia
The Expected Auxiliary Variable Method for Monte Carlo Simulation

MONDAY, November 19, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

CARLOS CARVALHO
University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
Objective Bayesian Model Selection in Gaussian Graphical Models


MONDAY, November 26, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

TYLER VANDERWEELE
Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago
Empirical and Counterfactual Conditions for Sufficient Cause Interactions

 

 

SPRING QUARTER 2007


  MONDAY, March 26 and THURSDAY, March 29, 2007 at 4:00 PM
  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.

  BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
  WING WONG
  Statistics and Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
  Statistical Issues in the Study of Gene Regulation (Monday)
  Learning Causal Bayesian Network Structures from Experimental Observations (Thursday)
  

  MONDAY, April 2, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

    JEAN JACOD
    Université P. et M. Curie (Paris-6)
  
Testing for Jumps in the Context of High Frequency Data

  MONDAY, April 9, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  REGINA LIU
  Department of Statistics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  
Mining and Tracking Massive Text Data
  

  MONDAY, April 16, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  MARK VAN DER LAAN
  Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  
Targeted Maximum Likelihood Learning of Scientific Questions
  

  MONDAY, April 23, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  WEI BIAO WU
  Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
  
New Perspectives in the Theory of Time Series

  MONDAY, April 30, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  KEN BOLLEN
  Director, Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina
  Latent Variable Models Under Misspecification: Two Stage Least Squares (2SLS) and
  Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) Estimators

  WEDNESDAY, May 2 , 2007 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  

  NINA SINGHAL HINRICHS
  Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
  
Modeling Macromolecular Dynamics from Simulations

  MONDAY, May 7, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  JOSEPH LANG
  Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
  
Improved Confidence Intervals for Contingency Table Parameters

  THURSDAY, May 10, 2007 at 4:30 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments before the seminar in Eckhart 110 at 4:00 PM.

  ROBERT GROSSMAN
  Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
  
Building Statistical Models on Large and Distributed Data: Why is it Still a Challenge?

  MONDAY, May 14, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  EMMANUEL CANDES
  Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
  The Dantzig Selector: statistical estimation when p is larger than n

  MONDAY, May 21, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  JOZEF L. TEUGELS
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & EURANDOM
  
On Reinsurance

  MONDAY, May 28, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  NO SEMINAR: MEMORIAL DAY
  

  THURSDAY, June 7, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments prior to the seminar at 3:15 pm in Eckhart 110 .


  GRACE WAHBA
  The University of Wisconsin
  What Was It that Made Generalized Validation Cross?, Or, a Brief History of Tuning, and
  Illustrated with an Application to the LASSO-Patternsearch Algorithm.
  

 

  WINTER QUARTER 2007


  MONDAY, January 8, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  MARTIN WAINWRIGHT
  Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and Statistics
  University of California at Berkeley
  
Precise Thresholds for Sparsity Recovery in the High-Dimensional and Noisy Setting Using
  'ell sub 1' Relaxations
  

  MONDAY, January 15, 2007.
  

  NO SEMINAR
  Martin Luther King Day
 

  MONDAY, January 22, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  RICHARD DAVIS
  Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
  
Another Look at Estimation for MA(1) Processes with a Unit Root
  

  THURSDAY, January 25, 2007 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  

  LIPING TONG
  Department of Statistics, University of Washington
  
Multilocus Lod Scores in Large Pedigrees: Combination of Exact and Approximate Calculations
  

  MONDAY, January 29, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  GILLES BLANCHARD
  Associate researcher, Fraunhofer FIRST (IDA)
  
Statistical Performance of Support Vector Machines
  

  MONDAY, February 5, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  HANNA JANKOWSKI
  University of Toronto and University of Washington
  
Empirical Process Limits under Model Misspecification

  MONDAY, February 12, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.


  VICTOR PANARETOS
  Department of Statistics, University of California,  Berkeley
  
On the Statistical Inversion of a Stochastic Radon Transform with Applications to
  Structural Biology


  WEDNESDAY, February 14, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.


  DEBASHIS MONDAL
  Department of Statistics, University of Washington
  
Wavelet Variance Analysis for Time Series and Random Fields


  MONDAY, February 19, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  SETH SULLIVANT
  Department of Mathematics, Harvard University
  Algebraic Geometry of Gaussian Bayesian Networks

  MONDAY, February 26, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  GREGORY LAWLER
  Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Chicago
  
Conformal Invariance and Two-Dimensional Statistical Physics

  MONDAY, March 5, 2007 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  JEFFREY S. ROSENTHAL
  Department of Statistics, University of Toronto
  
Adaptive MCMC: Challenges and Opportunities

 

AUTUMN QUARTER 2006

  MONDAY, September 25, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  JAN HANNIG
  Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
  
Statistical Model for Tracking with Applications
  

  MONDAY, October 2, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  PETER HOFF
  Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle
  
Marginal Set Likelihood for Semiparametric Copula Estimation
  

  FRIDAY, October 6, 2006 at 3:00 PM,  Eckhart 308, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  

  NATHANAEL BERESTYCKI
  University of British Columbia
  
Probability : Global Divergence of Spatial Coalescents
  

  MONDAY, October 9, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  STEVEN P. LALLEY
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  
Spatial Epidemics: Critical Behavior

  MONDAY, October 16, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  MARC HALLIN
  Institut de Statistique et de Recherche opérationnelle and Département de Mathématique
  Université libre de Bruxelles
  
FROM DISTRIBUTION-FREENESS TO SEMIPARAMETRIC EFFICIENCY
  Sixty years of rank-based inference
  

  MONDAY, October 23, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  THOMAS SEVERINI
  Departments of Statistics, Northwestern University
  
Nonparametric Linear Models with Endogenous Regressors
  

  MONDAY, October 30, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  KEITH WORSLEY
  Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
  
Detecting Connectivity Between Images by Thresholding Random Fields: MS Lesions, Cortical
  Thickness, and the `Bubbles' Task in an fMRI Experiment
  

  MONDAY, November 6, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110. Joint with the Committee on Computational
  Neuroscience.

  ROBERT KASS
  Departments of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  
Bayesian Curve Fitting and Neuron Firing Patterns
  

  WEDNESDAY, November 8, 2006 at 12:00 PM,  Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  

  SHARON R. BROWNING
  The University of Auckland, Department of Statistics
  
Multilocus Genetic Association Testing Using Localized Haplotype Clustering
  

  MONDAY, November 13, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  NICHOLAS ERIKSSON
  Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley
  Conjunctive Bayesian Networks
  

  MONDAY, November 20, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.


  YANQIN FAN
  Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University
  Sharp Bounds on the Distribution of the Treatment Effect and Their Statistical Inference
  


  MONDAY, November 27, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  ANUJ SRIVASTAVA
  Departments of Statistics, Florida State University
  
Statistical Analysis of Shapes of Curves and Surfaces
  

  SPRING QUARTER 2006

  MONDAY, March 27, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  WEI BIAO WU
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  
What Is Dependence?
  

  MONDAY, April 3, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  YUGUO CHEN
  Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
Sampling for Conditional Inference on Multiway Tables
  

  MONDAY, April 10, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  LEI SUN
  Departments of Public Health Sciences and Statistics, University of Toronto
  Non-discovery Rate and Stratified False Discovery Control with Application to Genome-wide
  Association Studies

  MONDAY, April 17, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.


  SHAM KAKADE
  Toyota Technical Institute
  Calibration via Regression
  


  MONDAY, April 24, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  JEROME P. KEATING
  Department of Management Science and Statistics, College of Business,
  University of Texas at San Antonio
  Use of Multivariate Methods in Environmental Settings

  MONDAY, May 1, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.  Joint seminar with Department of Health Studies.

  GIOVANNI PARMIGIANI
  Departments of Oncology, Biostatistics and Pathology
  Johns Hopkins University
  Mining and Modeling Multiple Microarray Datasets
  

  MONDAY, May 8, 2006 at 4:00 PM.   #107 Kent Chemical Laboratory, 1020 E. 58th Street.
  Refreshments served in Kent 107.


  Seventh Annual Bahadur Lectures
  ELIZABETH THOMPSON
  Professor of Statistics and Genome Sciences, University of Washington
  Monte Carlo Likelihood Inference in Latent Variable Problems


  THURSDAY, May 11, 2006 at 4:00 PM.   #107 Kent Chemical Laboratory, 1020 E. 58th Street.
  Refreshments served in Kent 107.


  Seventh Annual Bahadur Lectures
  ELIZABETH THOMPSON
  Professor of Statistics and Genome Sciences, University of Washington
  Uncertainty and Evidence in the Face of Unseen Data


  MONDAY, May 15, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110. Joint with Committee on Computational Neuroscience.

  LIAM  PANINSKI
  Department of Statistics, Columbia University
  Two Problems from Neural Data Analysis: Sparse Entropy Estimation and Adaptive
  Experimental Design

  MONDAY, May 22, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  MICHAEL JORDAN
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Department of Statistics,
  University of California, Berkeley

  Hierarchical modeling with Dirichlet processes
  

  MONDAY, May 29, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  MEMORIAL DAY
  No seminar.
  

WINTER QUARTER 2006

  MONDAY, January 9, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  DAVID VAN DYK
  Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine
  Highly Structured Models in High Energy Astrophysics

  MONDAY, January 16, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
  No seminar.

  MONDAY, January 23, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  SAMUEL KOU
  Department of Statistics, Harvard University
  Equi-energy Sampler: From Statistical Inference to Statistical Mechanics

  MONDAY, January 30, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  MATHIAS DRTON
  Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  Algebraic Factor Analysis: Tetrads, Pentads and Beyond

  MONDAY, February 6, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  QING ZHOU
  Department of Statistics, Harvard University
  Detecting CIS-Regulatory Modules and Motifs by Modeling Correlated Structures in
  Genomic Sequences

  MONDAY, February 13, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  YEHUA LI
  Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
  Nonparametric Estimation of Correlation Functions In Longitudinal And Spatial Data, With
  Application To Colon Carcinogenesis Experiments

  MONDAY, February 20, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  SOURAV CHATTERJEE
  Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  Some Extensions of Stein's Method

  MONDAY, February 27, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.  This seminar includes co-author Guanglei Hong.

  STEPHEN RAUDENBUSH
  Department of Sociology, Committee on Education, The University of Chicago
  GUANGLEI HONG
  Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
  Evaluating Kindergarten Retention Policy:  A Case Study of Causal Inference for
  Multi-Level Observational Data
  Printable version of paper

  MONDAY, March 6, 2006 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110. 

  WOLFGANG HÄRDLE
  Institute for Statistics and Econometrics, Humboldt University, Berlin
  Calculating Value at Risk: GHADA and GHICA

 

AUTUMN QUARTER 2005

  MONDAY, October 3, 2005 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  DAVID SCOTT
  Department of Statistics, Rice University
  Remarks on Mixtures and Kernels for Density-Based Clustering

  MONDAY, October 10, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  SETH SULLIVANT
  Department of Mathematics, Harvard University
  Algebraic Statistics

  MONDAY, October 17, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  RUDOLF BERAN
  Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
  A Minimalist's Approach to Fitting and Extrapolating a Discrete Incomplete Multi-way Layout

  MONDAY, October 24, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  HEDIBERT FREITAS LOPES
  The University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business  
  Spatial Factor Models

  MONDAY, October 31, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.
 
  JIANQING FAN
  Department of Statistics, Princeton University
  Nonparametric Specification Tests for Diffusion Models in Financial Econometrics

  MONDAY, November 7, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.
 
  HÉLÈNE MASSAM
  Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University
  Two New Families of Conjugate Priors for Graphical Gaussian Models

  WEDNESDAY, November 9, 2005 at 11:30 AM, Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
  
 
  JUDEA PEARL
  Department of Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles
  The Mathematics of Causal Inference

  MONDAY, November 14, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.
 
  MERLISE CLYDE
  Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University
  Nonparametric Function Estimation Using Overcomplete Representations and Levy
  Random Field Priors

  MONDAY, November 21, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  TORBEN ANDERSEN
  Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
  No-Arbitrage Semi-Martingale Restrictions for Continuous-Time Volatility Models Subject
  to Leverage Effects and Jumps: Theory and Testable Distributional Implications

  PDF file of his paper for download [546 kb].


  MONDAY, November 28, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.
 
  YING NIAN WU
  Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles
  Scale in Natural Scene Image Understanding

  FRIDAY, December 16, 2005 at 3:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110. Joint with Human Genetics.
 
  MATTHEW STEPHENS
  Department of Statistics, University of Washington
  Automatically Detecting and Genotyping Genetic Variants (SNPs) by Sequencing
  of Diploid Samples

SPRING QUARTER 2005

  MONDAY, March 28, 2005 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  
Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  TONY CAI
  Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  Prediction In Functional Linear Regression

  MONDAY, April 4, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  KUNG SIK CHAN
  Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
  A Threshold Logistic Regression Model for Analyzing Epidemiological Time Series

  MONDAY, April 11, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Joint seminar with Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago.

  GARETH JAMES
  Department of Information and Operations Management, University of Southern California
  Functional Adaptive Model Estimation

  MONDAY, April 18, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.


  ADAM KALAI
  Toyota Technical Institute, University of Chicago
  Regression Trees and Regression Graphs: Efficient Estimators for Generalized Additive Models


  MONDAY, April 25, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.
 
  MEI WANG
  Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
  Posterior Distributions on Parameter Space via Group Invariance

  MONDAY, May 2, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  DAN NICOLAE
  Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
  Quantifying Correlation with Applications to Genome-Wide Association Studies

  MONDAY, May 9, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.


  AUGUSTINE KONG
  deCODE Genetics, and Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
  Studying Recombination Rate as a Trait


  MONDAY, May 16 and WEDNESDAY May 18, 2005 at 4:00 PM
  Kent 107, 1020 East 58th Street


  ** SIXTH ANNUAL BAHADUR LECTURES **
  Willem R. van Zwet
  Mathematical Institute, University of Leiden
  Statistics and the law: the case of the negligent nurse (May 16, 2005)
  Kakutani’s interval splitting scheme (May 18, 2005)


  MONDAY, May 23, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.
 
  Open date.

  WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2005 at 3:30 PM, Room W229, Albert Merritt Billings (AMB) Bldg
  Joint seminar with Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago.
 
  SUSAN MURPHY
  Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
  Experiments and Dynamic Treatment Regimes

  MONDAY, May 30, 2005
  

  Memorial Day Holiday.  No seminar.

  MONDAY, June 6, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.
 
  SEBASTIAN JESTER
  Fermilab
  Statistics in Astronomy: Finding and Counting What's Out There

WINTER QUARTER 2005

  MONDAY, January 10, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.


  PETER HANSEN
  Department of Economics, Brown University
  Regular and Modified Kernel-Based Estimators of Integrated Variance: The Case with
  Independent Noise


  MONDAY, January 17, 2005 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  
Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  DANIEL J. SCHAID, Ph.D.
   Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
  Nonparametric Tests of Association of Multiple Genes with Human Disease

  MONDAY, January 24, 2005 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  
Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  
  YU MICHAEL ZHU
  Department of Statistics, Purdue University
  Fourier Methods for Estimating Dimension Reduction Subspaces in Regression

  MONDAY, January 31, 2005 at 4:00 PM,  Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  
Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  
  WILLIAM S. CLEVELAND
  Professor of Statistics and Courtesy Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University
  Modeling Nonlinear Long-Range Dependent Time Series with Application to Internet Traffic

  WEDNESDAY, February 2, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
  There will be an informal reception before his talk in Eckhart 110 at 3:00 pm.

  
  JON MCAULIFFE
  Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  Statistical Methods for Genome Comparison

  MONDAY, February 7, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  DAVID POLLARD
  Department of Statistics, Yale University
  What is Randomization?

  THURSDAY, February 10, 2005 at 12:00 PM, 120 KENT HALL, 1020 East 58th Street

 
  BEN MORRIS
  Department of Mathematics, Indiana University and Microsoft Theory Group
  The Mixing Time of the Thorp Shuffle

  MONDAY, February 14, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  BIN YU
  Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  Embracing Statistical Challenges in the Information Technology Age

  MONDAY, February 21, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

  
  YUHONG YANG
  Department of Statistics, University of Minnesota
  Combining/Selecting Models/Procedures

  MONDAY, February 28, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  SUSANNE M. SCHENNACH
  Department of Economics, The University of Chicago
  Instrumental Variable Estimation of Nonlinear Errors-in-Variables Models

  MONDAY, March 7, 2005 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  MURRAY ROSENBLATT
  Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
  Estimation for a Class of Stationary and Nonstationary Processes

AUTUMN QUARTER 2004

  MONDAY, September 27, 2004 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  PROBAL CHAUDHURI
  Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
  Statistical Learning from DNA Words

  MONDAY, October 4, 2004 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  TIEFENG JIANG
  School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
  How Many Entries of A Typical Orthogonal Matrix Can Be Approximated By Independent
  Normals?

  MONDAY, October 11, 2004 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  JIASHUN JIN
  Department of Statistics, Purdue University
  Asymptotic Minimaxity of False Discovery Rate Thresholding for Sparse Exponential Data

  MONDAY, October 18, 2004 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  SAM ROWEIS
  Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
  Multiple Alignment of Continuous Time Series

  MONDAY, October 25, 2004 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  MARTIN WEGKAMP
  Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  Aggregation for Regression Learning

  MONDAY, November 1, 2004 at 4:00 PM, >Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  EMERY BROWN
  Harvard Medical School/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
  Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital

  Using the State-Space Paradigm to Analyze Information Representation in Neural Systems

  MONDAY, November 8, 2004 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  GRACE CHAN
  Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa
  Estimation of Factal Dimension for Gaussian and a Class of Non-Gaussian Stationary Random
  Fields

  MONDAY, November 15, 2004 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  IVAN MIZERA
  Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta
  LSD

  MONDAY, November 22, 2004 at 4:00 PM, Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
  Refreshments following the seminar in Eckhart 110.

 
  PETER RADCHENKO
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Yale University
  Mixed-rates Asymptotics

 

SUMMER QUARTER 2004

tick markThursday, July 1, 2004 at 11:00 AM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
IOANNIS KONTOYIANNIS,Division of Applied Mathematics and Department of Computer Science, Brown University, and Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Poisson Approximation Via Entropy."

SPRING QUARTER 2004

tick markMonday, April 5, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
J. MICHAEL STEELE, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Nonstationarity: The Challenge to the Modeling of Asset Prices and Derivatives."

tick markMonday, April 12, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
JON A. WELLNER, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Nonparametric Estimation Under Shape Constraints: Monotone, Convex, and Beyond."

tick markMonday, April 19, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHIYI CHI, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"Filtering for Point Processes and Its Applications."

tick markMonday, April 26, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
HONGQUAN XU, Department of Statistics, University of California at Los Angeles
"Optimal Choice of Nonregular Fractional Factorial Designs."

tick markWEDNESDAY, May 5, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street.
Refreshments following seminar in Eckhart 110.
ALAIN TROUVE, Ecole Normale Superieur, Cachan
"From Shape Matching to Metamorphosis."

tick markMONDAY, May 10, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
TOM LOUIS, Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health

"Performance of Optimal Ranking Methods."
This is a joint seminar with Health Studies.

tick markMONDAY, May 17, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
Refreshments following seminar in Eckhart 110.
NICHO HATSOPOULOS, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago
"Coding of Action from Cortical Ensembles"

tick markMONDAY, May 24, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
Refreshments following seminar in Eckhart 110.
GUENTHER WALTHER, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"Model Selection in High Dimensions".

tick markPOSTPONED TO OCTOBER 11, 2004 !!
MONDAY, May 31, 2004 at 4:00 PM

Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
SAM ROWEIS, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Title and abstract to be annonced.

 

WINTER QUARTER 2004

tick markMonday, January 12, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
SAMUEL KOU, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
"Bayesian Analysis of Single Molecule Experiments"

tick mark Monday, January 19, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
YI LIN, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Component Selection and Smoothing Spline Analysis of Variance Models"

tick markWEDNESDAY, January 21, 2004 at 3:30 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
D. R. BELLHOUSE, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario
"Lord Stanhope's Papers on the Doctrine of Chances"

tick markTUESDAY, January 27, 2004 at 12:00 NOON
Biological Sciences Learning Center - Room 205, 924 E. 57th Street
KEITH WORSLEY, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
"Detecting Brain Damage Using Structure Density, Structure Thickness, and Vector Deformations"

This is part of the Center for Neural Computation and Engineering Seminar Series, sponsored by the Committee on Computational Neuroscience The University of Chicago

tick markMonday, February 2, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
Mathias Drton, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Iterative Conditional Fitting for Gaussian Ancestral Graph Models"

tick markMonday, February 9, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
Noureddine El Karoui, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"The Tracy-Widom Law Holds When n, p, p/n -> infinity, with Application to PCA"

tick markWEDNESDAY, February 18, 2004 at 2:30 PM
#251 RYERSON HALL, 1100 E. 58th Street
Sayan Mukherjee, Center for Biological and Computational Learning and Cancer Genomics Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Gene Set Enrichment Analysis"

tick markMonday, February 23, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
Robert McCulloch, Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago
"BART: Bayesian Additive Regression Trees"

tick markMonday, March 8, 2004 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
Dylan Small, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Overidentifying Restrictions Tests and Sensitivity Analysis for Instrumental Variables Regression".

AUTUMN QUARTER 2003

tick markMonday, October 6, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
MIKE DANIELS, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
"Conditionally Specified Space-Time Models for Multiple Pollutants"

tick markFIFTH ANNUAL BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
DAVID O. SIEGMUND, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 4:00 PM
"Statistical Problems of Genetic Mapping"
Friday, October 17, 2003 at 4:00 PM
"Gene Mapping and Model Selection"

tick markMonday, October 27, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ZHILIANG YING, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
"Semiparametric AFT Model for Survival Data: Inference, Implementation and Theory"

tick markNovember 3, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
STEPHEN STIGLER, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"A Statistical Revolutionary: R. A. Fisher in 1922"

tick markMonday, November 10, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue>
ANIRBAN DASGUPTA, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
"Inference Based on Total Variation Distance"

tick markMonday, November 17, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
MOULINATH BANERJEE, Deparment of Statistics, University of Michigan
"Confidence Sets for Split Points in Decision Trees"

tick markMonday, November 24, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
JIANQING FAN, Department of Statistics, Princeton University
Speaker has cancelled his talk. 

tick markMonday, December 1, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
LINDA B. COLLINS, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"Issues in Catastrophe Excess-of-Loss Reinsurance Pricing"

 

SPRING QUARTER 2003

tick markMonday, April 7, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
LAURA LAZZERONI, Stanford University
"Extensions of the Plaid Model for Two-Way Clustering of Microarray Data"

tick markMonday, April 14, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
JOHN MILTON, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago
"Neural Control at the Edge of Instability: Delays, Power Laws and Lévy Distributions"

tick markMonday, April 21, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
WEI BIAO WU, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"On Martingale Approximations"

tick markMonday, April 28, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
BARBARA HELLER, Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Some Families of Probability Distributions Within Quantum Theory"

tick markMonday, May 5, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
MICHAEL SORENSEN, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Copenhagen
"Prediction-Based Estimating Functions: Ice Cores, Finance and Delay"

tick markMonday, May 12, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
MATTHEW STEPHENS, Department of  Statistics, University of Washington
"Exploring Heterogeneity in Recombination Rates Across the Genome"

tick markMonday, May 19, 2003 at 4:00 PM    --  CANCELLED
Eckhart Hall,. Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
GONCALO ABECASIS, Department of  Statistics, University of Michigan

tick markMonday, June 2, 2003 at 4:00 PM
Eckhart Hall, Room 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
MORRIS L. EATON, Department of Statistics, University of Minnesota
"Strong Inconsistency from a Standard Jeffreys Prior for an Unknown Covariance Matrix"