Summer 2008
| Summer 2008 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 7/22/2008 | John Aston | Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Runs, Patterns and Change-points: An HMM Perspective |
| 9/11/2008 | Jacek Leskow | National Louis University, Nowy Sacz, Poland | Resampling for Nonstationary Stochastic Models |
Spring 2008
| Spring 2008 | Organizer: Jiming Jiang | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 4/3/2008 | Ulrich Stadtmueller | Univ. Ulm, Germany | On Some Deconvolution Problems |
| 4/10/2008 | Samuel Schmidt | Physics, UC Davis | An introduction to photometric redshifts |
| 4/17/2008 | Qiwei Yao | London School of Economics, UK | Modelling High Dimensional Daily Volatilities Based on High-Frequency Data |
| 4/24/2008 | Bo Lindqvist | Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology, Norway | Monte Carlo Conditioning on a sufficent statistic |
| 5/1/2008 | Michael Rosenblum | UC Berkeley | Using Regression Models to Analyze Randomized Trials: Asymptotically Valid Hypothesis Tests Despite Incorrectly Specified Models |
| 5/8/2008 | Annie Qu | Oregon State Univ | Consistent Model Selection and Data-driven Smooth Tests for Longitudinal Data in the Estimating Equations Approach |
| 5/15/2008 | James Ramsay | McGill Univ, Canada | ModelingChange: Incorporating Dynamic Components into Data Analysis |
| 5/22/2008 | Debashis Paul | Statistics, UC Davis | Principal Components analysis for correlated functional and high dimensional data |
| 5/29/2008 | Jie Peng | Statistics, UC Davis | Partial Correlation Estimation by Joint Sparse Regression Models |
| 6/5/2008 | Haiyan Huang | UC Berkeley | Statistical Methods for inferring gene expression similarities |
Winter 2008
| Winter 2008 | Organizer: Rituparna Sen | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 1/8/2008 | Bo Li | UCAR | Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions and its Application in Paleoclimate Reconstruction |
| 1/10/2008 | Per Mykland | Statistics, Univ Chicago | Inference for Continuous Semimartingales Observed at High Frequency: A General Approach |
| 1/15/2008 | David Mason | Univ. Delaware | Risk Bounds for Kernel Density Estimators |
| 1/17/2008 | Jean Opsomer | Statistics, Colorado State Univ | Endogenous Post-stratification in Surveys |
| 1/18/2008 | Faming Liang | Texas A&M | Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo and Its Applications |
| 1/24/2008 | Ingeleif Hallgrímsdóttir | The Statistics of Interaction in Genetics | |
| 1/24/2008 | Ben Morris | Mathematics, UC Davis | Improved Mixing Time Bounds for the L-Reversal Chain and Thorp Shuffle |
| 1/29/2008 | Ethan Anderes | UC Berkeley | Two Topics in Spatial Statistics: Estimating Cloud Height from Multi-Angle Satellite Imagery and Deformed Random Fields |
| 1/30/2008 | Bo Sen | Statistics, U. Michigan | Bootstrap in some Non-standard Problems |
| 1/31/2008 | Marc Coram | Dept Health Research & Policy, Stanford Univ | Allele Frequency Estimation by Borrowing Strength across Populations |
| 2/4/2008 | Richard Umstaetter | NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab | Bayesian strategies for gravitational radiation data analysis |
| 2/7/2008 | Cari Kaufman | SAMSI & National Center for Atmospheric Research | Models for Models: Statistical Methods for Climate Model Output and Other Massive Datasets |
| 2/14/2008 | Xiao Wang | Univ. Maryland | Nonparametric Estimation of Dark Matter Distributions |
| 2/21/2008 | Jonathan Hill | Economics, Univ North Carolina | Tail Trimmed Sums for Dependent, Heterogeneous Data, with Applications to Robust GMM |
| 2/28/2008 | Aaron Smith | Agriculture & Resource Economics, UC Davis | Markov Breaks in Regression Models |
Fall 2007
| Fall 2007 | Organizer: Fushing Hsieh | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 9/27/2007 | Jane-Ling Wang | Statistics, UC Davis | Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data |
| 10/4/2007 | Arne Bang Huseby | Univ. Oslo, Norway | Signed Domination of Oriented Matroid System |
| 10/11/2007 | Ji Meng Loh | Columbia U | Bootstrapping spatial data |
| 10/18/2007 | Carrie Grimes | Statistical Problems at Google: Estimation of Web Page Change Rates | |
| 10/25/2007 | Eric Chi | Amgen | Drug Development and Some Statistical Applications in the Biopharmaceutical Industry |
| 11/1/2007 | Kevin J. Grimm | Psychology, UC Davis | Multitrait-Multimethod Models for Developmental Research |
| 11/8/2007 | Chuck McCulloch | Biostatistics, UCSF | Prediction of Random Effects and Effects of Misspecification of their Distribution |
| 11/16/2007 | Kaare Christensen | Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense DK | Why do we age so differently? The Danish Twin and Oldest-Old Studies |
| 11/29/2007 | Ching-Shui Cheng | UC Berkeley | Construction of minimum aberration designs |
| 12/11/2007 | Chi-Hse Teng | Pfizer St Louis and La Jolla Lab | A Real Story of Searching for Hopes - An Overview of a Genomics Project for Searching Biological Targets |