Recent Seminar Abstracts

Summer 2007

Friday June 22nd, 2007

Speaker:

Damla Senturk (Pennsylvania State University)

Title:

Conditional Correlation for Covariate Adjustment

Statistics Summer Seminar

Tuesday June 19th, 2007

Speaker:

Yichao Wu (Princeton University)

Title:

Semiparametric estimation of covariance matrices for longitudinal data

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Spring 2007

Thursday May 31st, 2007

Speaker:

Joel A. Dubin (Univ. Waterloo, ON)

Title:

Longitudinal modeling of a response and time-dependent covariate measured at different time points

Wednesday May 23rd, 2007

Speaker:

Ken Newman (Fish and Wildlife Services, UC Davis)

Title:

Bayesian hierachical models for multi-year ecological studies

Thursday May 17th, 2007

Speaker:

Peter Hall (Dept of Statistics, UC Davis)

Title:

Bootstrap aggregation for cross-validation and inference under constraints

Thursday May 10th, 2007

Speaker:

Terry Speed (University of California, Berkeley)

Title:

High-Density Short Oligonucleotide Microarrays: A low-Level viewpoint

Thursday May 3rd, 2007

Speaker:

Guenther Walther (Stanford University)

Title:

Scan statistics for quantitating differences in distributions

Thursday April 26th, 2007

Speaker:

Alan Hubbard (University of California, Berkeley)

Title:

Variable Importance measures inspired from causal inference in microarray studies of aging

Thursday April 19th, 2007

Speaker:

Lihong Qi (Dept of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis)

Title:

Statistical Methods for Proportional Hazards Regression With Missing Covariates

Tuesday April 17th, 2007

Speaker:

Helen Massam (York University, Toronto) and Bala Rajaratnam (SAMSI).

Title:

Flexible Covariance estimation in Gaussian graphical models

Thursday April 12th, 2007

Speaker:

Makram Talih (City University of New York, Hunter College)

Title:

Geodesic Markov Chains on Covariance Matrices

Thursday April 5th, 2007

Speaker:

Danielle Harvey (Dept of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis)

Title:

Biologically driven data reduction of high dimensional spatially correlated data

Thursday March 29th, 2007

Speaker:

Anandamayee Majumdar (Arizona State University, Phoenix)

Title:

Gradients in Spatial Response Surfaces, with an Application to Urban Land Values

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Winter 2007

Thursday March 1st, 2007

Speaker:

Romain Neugebauer (Assistant Researcher, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health)

Title:

Causal inference in air pollution epidemiology -- Overcoming violation of the experimental treatment assignment assumption.

Tuesday February 27th, 2007

Speaker:

Subharup Guha

Title:

Bayesian Hidden Markov Modeling of Array-CGH Data

Thursday February 22nd, 2007

Speaker:

Alexander Aue (Clemson University)

Title:

Distinguishing between random walks and changes in the mean

Tuesday February 20th, 2007

Speaker:

Yingying Fan

Title:

High Dimensional Classification Using Features Annealed Independence Rules

Thursday February 15th, 2007

Speaker:

Guodong Li (Univ. Hong Kong)

Title:

Testing for threshold moving average with conditional heteroscedasticity

Monday February 12th, 2007

Speaker:

Crystal Linkletter

Title:

Latent Socio-Spatial Process Model for Social Networks

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Speaker:

Jane Fridlyand (Assistant Professor, Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Bioinformatics Core, UCSF)

Title:

Analysis and Integration of Array CGH Data: methods and applications

Wednesday February 7th, 2007

Speaker:

Debashis Mondal (Univ. Washington)

Title:

Wavelet Variance Analysis for Time Series and Random Fields

Tuesday February 6th, 2007

Speaker:

Chunming Zhang (Assoc. Professor, Department of Statistics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

Title:

Semiparametric Detection of Significant Activation for Brain fMRI

Thursday February 1st, 2007

Speaker:

Mark R. Segal (Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Biostatistics, UCSF)

Title:

Chess, Chance and Conspiracy

Thursday January 25th, 2007

Speaker:

Yunming Mu, Assistant Professor, visitor from Dept of Statistics Texas A&M University

Title:

Power Transformation Techniques in Quantile Regression

Thursday January 18th, 2007

Speaker:

Bruce Rannala, (UC Davis Genome Center and Evolution & Ecology)

Title:

Inferring Somatic Mutation Rates Using the Stop-EGFP Mouse

Thursday January 11th, 2007

Speaker:

Patrice Koehl, Department of Computer Science and Genome Center, UC Davis

Title:

Protein structure and Protein sequence spaces

Tuesday January 9th, 2007

Speaker:

David M. Mason, Statistics Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, davidmudel.edu

Title:

Local U-Statistic Processes: Methods and Applications

Thursday January 4th, 2007

Speaker:

Charles H. Langley (Section of Evolution and Ecology & Center for Population Biology, UCD)

Title:

Estimates and inferences for Drosophila population genomics

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Fall 2006

Thursday December 7th, 2006

Speaker:

Noureddine El Karoui, (Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley)

Title:

Random matrix theory and multivariate Statistics

Thursday November 30th, 2006

Speaker:

David Wittman (Dept of Physics, UC Davis)

Title:

Large Optical Astronomy Surveys

Thursday November 16th, 2006

Speaker:

Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Dept of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering)

Title:

Growth and Function of Networks

Thursday November 9th, 2006

Speaker:

Pei Wang, Cancer Prevention Program, PHS, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Title:

A statistical method for alignment of liquid-chromatography mass-spectrometry (LC-MS) data

Thursday November 2nd, 2006

Speaker:

Jeng-Min Chiou, Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica

Title:

Functional clustering of longitudinal data

Thursday October 26th, 2006

Speaker:

Ethan Anderes, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Title:

Estimating Deformations of Gaussian Random Fields

Thursday October 19th, 2006

Speaker:

Katherine Pollard, Department of Statistics and Genome Center, University of California, Davis

Title:

What Made Us Human?

Thursday October 12th, 2006

Speaker:

Wolfgang Jank, Department of Decision & Information Technology, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Title:

Modeling Concurrency of Events in Online Auctions via Spatio-Temporal Semiparametric Models

Thursday October 5th, 2006

Speaker:

Souray Chatterjee, Dept of Statistics, UC Berkeley

Title:

Transcriptome Variance Decomposition

Thursday September 28th, 2006

Speaker:

Sergey Nuzhdin (Section of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis)

Title:

What Made Us Human?

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Spring 2006

Thursday June 1st, 2006

Speaker:

Nicolai Meinshausen (ETH Zürich, Switzerland; visiting UC Berkeley)

Title:

The search for small objects in the outer solar system. How many are there?

Thursday May 25th, 2006

Speaker:

Philip B. Stark (UC Berkeley)

Title:

Shaking Down Earthquake Predictions

Thursday May 18th, 2006

Speaker:

Oscar Jorda (Economics, UC Davis)

Title:

Projection Minimum Distance: An Estimator for Multivariate Dynamic Systems

Thursday May 11th, 2006

Speaker:

Debashis Paul (Department of Statistics, UC Davis)

Title:

Principal Component Analysis for Structured High Dimensional Data

Thursday May 4th, 2006

Speaker:

Ingo Steinwart (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Title:

Surrogate loss functions for finding density level sets

Thursday April 27th, 2006

Speaker:

Richard Davis, Dept of Statistics, Colorado State University

Title:

Structural Break Detection in Time Series Models

Monday April 24th, 2006

Speaker:

Moshe Shaked (Dept. of Mathematics, University of Arizona)

Title:

Stochastic ordering of Minima

Thursday April 20th, 2006

Speaker:

Myles Hollander (Florida State University)

Title:

Random matrix theory and multivariate Statistics

Thursday April 13th, 2006

Speaker:

Norm Matloff (Dept of Computer Science, UC Davis)

Title:

How One Can Estimate Web-Access Rates with (Almost) No Data

Thursday April 6th, 2006

Speaker:

Katherine S. Pollard (Department of Statistics, UC Davis)

Title:

Multiple hypothesis testing for high dimensional biological data

Thursday March 30th, 2006

Speaker:

Emilio Ferrer (Department of Psychology, UC Davis)

Title:

A Linear Dynamic Model of Difference Scores for Studying Developmental Dynamics

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Winter 2006

Thursday March 9th, 2006

Speaker:

Lutz Duembgen (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Title:

Log-Concavity and Density Estimation

Thursday March 2nd, 2006

Speaker:

Alexandre Tsybakov (University of Paris VI)

Title:

Learning by mirror averaging

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