Statistics and Probability Seminar Series

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00-5:00 p.m. in 1634 Lederle Graduate Research Tower unless announced.
Tea begins at 3:45 p.m.

Spring 2008 SEMINARS

Date Speaker Title

Thursday, Jan. 17
4pm at LGRT 1634
Seth Sullivant
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
Algebraic geometry of Gaussian Bayesian networks

Wednesday, Jan. 30
4pm at LGRT 1634
Iryna Lobach
Center of Statistical Genomics and
Proteomics, Yale University
Case-Control Studies of Genetic and Environmental Factors With Errors in Measurement, Missing Genetic Information and Haplotype-phase Ambiguity

Monday, Feb. 4
4pm at LGRT 1634
Daeyoung Kim
Department of Statistics
Penn State University
Mixture inference at the edge of identifiability

Monday, Feb. 11
4pm at LGRT 1634
Dawn Woodard
Department of Statistics
Duke University
Convergence of Parallel and Simulated Tempering on Multimodal Distributions

Friday, Feb. 29
2pm at LGRT219
Yuedong Wang
Department of Statistics and
Applied Probability
University of California
Santa Barbara
Nonlinear Nonparametric Regression Models

Monday, March 10 Chunming Li and Kongming Wang
Pfizer Inc. and Wyeth Inc.
A Measurement Error Model and Neuroimaging Trials; Statistics in Drug R&D


Wednesday, April 2
UConn-UMass
Joint Colloquium
At UConn
Michael Lavine
Mathematics and Statistics,
U of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Multiset Sampler, a New MCMC Scheme

Monday, April 14 Naitee Ting
Biostatistics, Pfizer Inc.
Practical and Statistical Considerations in Designing an Early Phase II Osteoarthritis Clinical Trial: a Case Study


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