Robert L Wolpert

Office: 211-C Old Chemistry Building
Phone: +1-919-684-3275
Fax: +1-919-684-8594
E-mail: wolpert@stat.duke.edu

Mailing Address:

Duke Univ Dept Statistical Science
211c Old Chem, Box 90251
Durham, NC 27708-0251 USA

A short description of my current research interests.
Recent research papers, presentations, my cv, or Duke's S@D website.
Current (F16) course:

STA 711 Probability & Measure Theory DukeHub Sakai

Past courses:

STA 230/MTH 230	Probability	F05, F08, F09, F10, F13	STA 711	Prob & Measure	F12, F13, F14, F15, F16
STA 250/MTH 342	Statistics	S00, S01, S09, F09, S11 S15	STA 732	Stat Inference	S00, S01, S02, S05, S06, S07
STA 532	Theo Inference	S15, S16	STA 961	Stoch Proc	Earlier, S12, S14, S16
STA 832	Multivariate	S10, S13	STA 690	Topics	F98, F01, F02, S04, S08

Go to the Statistical Science, Arts & Sciences, NSOE (Duke Forest), or Duke (Today) home pages.

Representative, Academic Council (Natural Sciences)
Representative, Arts & Sciences Council (Statistical Science, Alt)
Member, ITAC (Information Technology Advisory Council) and of its Steering Committee (docs)
Core Member, LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) ISSC (Informatics and Statistics Science Collaboration)
Council Member, Jetscape (Jet energy-loss tomography) HEP collaboration
Member, MADAI (Models and Data Analysis Initiative) Collaboration (pvt)
Member, PARISS (Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences) Board
Member, RCAC (Research Computing Advisory Council)
Scientific Coordinator, SAMSI Astro Stat WG (working docs)
Friend & supporter of the: Duke Lemur Center, Walking Fish CSF, Duke Park Neighborhood, Nasher Museum, NC Zoo, Cornell Ornithology lab, WCPE, WNCU, and the Piatigorsky Foundation.

Recent and Upcoming Conferences & Presentations

2015-09-01	Durham, NC	STA 581: ProSeminar	Statistical Paradigms: Bayesians & Frequentists
2015-10-30	Durham, NC	RLW-65
2016-04-05:08	Lausanne, CH	SIAM UQ16	Dynamic PF Flow & Frequency Models
2016-06-06:10	Pittsburgh, PA	SCMA VI	Non-Gaussian, Non-Stationary, & Irregularly Sampled
2016-06-13:17	Sardinia, IT	ISBA 2016
2016-06-13:08	Seattle, WA	Bayes Meth Nuc Phys
2016-07-30:04	Chicago, IL	JSM 2016
2016-08-22:26	RTP, NC	SAMSI ASTRO OW	Non-Gaussian, Non-Stationary, & Irregularly Sampled
Duke Statistics Meetings Calendar		ASA Meetings Calendar	ISI Meetings Calendar

Recent Research Papers

Tail waiting times and the extremes of stochastic processes , with JE Johndrow (2016). arXiv:1512.07848 [math.ST]
ACME: A Partially Periodic Estimator of Avian & Chiropteran Mortality at Wind Turbines (2016), arXiv:1507.00749 [stat.AP] Submitted.
The Longevity of Lava Dome Eruptions, with SE Ogburn and ES Calder (2016). J Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121(3), 676-686.
Geometric representations of Random Hypergraphs with Simón Lunagómez, Sayan Mukherjee, and Edoardo M. Airoldi (2016). "http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.2016.1141686" > arXiv:0912.3648 [math.ST] JASA (in press).
Pooling strength amongst limited datasets using hierarchical Bayesian analysis, with application to pyroclastic density current mobility metrics with SE Ogburn, JO Berger, ES Calder, DL Lopes, AK Patra, EB Pitman, R Rutarindwa, and ET Stiller (2016). Statistics in Volcanology 2(1), 1-26.
Geometric representations of hypergraphs for prior specification and posterior sampling with Simón Lunagómez and Sayan Mukherjee (2015). In Current Trends in Bayesian Methodology with Applications, ch. 19, 391-414.
A Physics-Based Emulator for the Simulation of Geophysical Mass Flows, with Asif Mahmood and E Bruce Pitman (2015). SIAM/ASA J Uncertainty Quantification 3(1), 562--585.
Quantifying properties of hot and dense QCD matter through systematic model-to-data comparison, with JE Bernhard, PW Marcy, CE Coleman-Smith, S Huzurbazar, and SA Bass (2015). arXiv:1502.00339 [nucl-th] Phys Rev C. 91(5), 1-15.
Probabilistic quantification of hazards: A methodology using small ensembles of physics based simulations and statistical surrogates, with MJ Bayarri, JO Berger, ES Calder, AK Patra, EB Pitman, and ET Stiller (2015). International J of Uncertainty Quantification 5(4), 297-339.

More papers are on my curriculum vitæ.