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.

FALL 2003 SEMINARS

September 29 Jeffrey Blanchard
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Microbiology
"From Conceptual to Probabilistic and Mathematical Models of Biological Processes"

Thursday, October 16 John Tsimikas
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Statistical Inference for the Lindley Process"



October 20 Walter Rosenkrantz
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Confidence Bands for Empirical Quantile Functions"

Wednesday, October 29 UConn-UMass Joint Colloquium
Room/Time Change: 219 LGRT, 4:15 p.m.
Speaker: Enrique Alvarez, University of Connecticut
"Estimation in Window-Censored Semi-Markov Processes"

November 10 Lawrence E. Thomas
Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
"The Polaron and the Functional Integral Representation for its Ground State Energy"

Thursday, November 13 Paul Dupuis
Brown University
"Importance Sampling and Differential Games"

November 17 Ed Stanek
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
"Predicting Random Effects in Group Randomized Trials"

December 1 John Staudenmayer
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Autoregression and Measurement Error"

December 8 Daniel Gervini
Faculty Candidate
Department of Biostatistics, University of Zurich
"Semiparametric statistical analysis of samples of curves"