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 2006 SEMINARS

Date Speaker Title

September 25 Phil Nasca
Professor of Epidemiology,
U of Massachusetts
“Public Health in the 21st Century”

October 18,
Wednesday
Room LGRT 219
UConn-UMass
Joint Colloquium
Speaker: Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
Markov Switching Model
Tea at 3:30 in LGRT 1634, Talk at 4 in LGRT 219, Pizza at 5:15 in LGRT 1634

November 6 Eric Martz
Department of Microbiology
U of Massachusetts
Open Access, Open Source Structural Bioinformatics

November 20 Tiejun Tong
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University
Optimal Shrinkage Estimation of Variances with Applications to Microarray Data Analysis

November 30 Anna Liu
Department of Mathematics
and Statistics,
U of Massachusetts
Department Colloquium
Smoothing spline models, diagnostics and applications

December 4 Joanna Jeneralczuk
Department of Mathematics
and Statistics,
U of Massachusetts
Statistical Methods for Estimating Sample Size in Microarray Experiments;