STA 395 Fall 2000 Speaker Schedule


Date Speaker & Topic
Tuesday, Aug 29: Peter Mueller, Estimating Ratios of Normalizing Constants
Thursday, Aug 31 Peter Mueller, MCMC for Model Comparison: Bridge Sampling, Reversible Jump and Related Algorithms
Tuesday, Sep 5: Michael Lavine, Perfect Sampling
Thursday, Sep 7: Michael Lavine, Perfect Sampling
Tuesday, Sep 12: Herbie Lee, Markov Random Field Models for High-Dimensional Parameters in Simulations of Fluid Flow in Porous Media
Thursday, Sep 14: Kathy Zhou, Disease Causality of Missense Mutations
Tuesday, Sep 19: Dave Higdon, The Bootstrap from an Empirical Process Standpoint
Thursday, Sep 21: Ed Iversen, Genetic Susceptibility and Survival
Tuesday, Sep 26: Susie Bayarri
Thursday, Sep 28: Jim Berger, P-values - Bad and Not-So-Bad [abstract]
Tuesday, Oct 3: Fred Dietrich, Present and future applications of statistics in DNA sequencing and genomic analysis
Thursday, Oct 5: Fred Dietrich
Tuesday, Oct 10: Class Cancelled
Thursday, Oct 12 Rodney Sparapani, Markov Chains for Irregularly Spaced Data
Tuesday, Oct 17: Fall Break, No Class
Thursday, Oct 19: Herbie Lee, Introduction to Neural Networks [abstract]
Tuesday, Oct 24: Doug Nychka, Wavelet Representations for Nonstationary Spatial Fields [abstract]. Room 130 Sociology - Psychology Building
Thursday, Oct 26: Class Cancelled
Tuesday, Oct 31 Harry Zuzan, Estimation of the background noise level in images using Markov random fields
Thursday, Nov 2: Ed Iversen, A spatial - temporal Markov random field model + application.
Tuesday, Nov 7: Thanasis Kottas, Full Bayesian inference under Dirichlet process mixing specifications with applications
Thursday, Nov 9 Thanasis Kottas
Tuesday, Nov 14: Todd Graves, Opportunities in the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory [abstract]
Thursday, Nov 16: Augustine Kong, Mapping Genes in Iceland -- CBCB Seminar Series, 4pm, Bryan Research Building, Room 103
Tuesday, Nov 21 Mike West, Regression with p>>n: Latent factor regression modeling
Thursday, Nov 23: Thanksgiving Break, No Class
Tuesday, Nov 28: Kimberly Sellers, 226 Perkins Library
Thursday, Nov 30: Scott Schmidler


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last updated 10 November 2000
Ed Iversen