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 2006 SEMINARS

Date Speaker Title

February 2,
Thursday
Brent Johnson
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
“Variable Selection in the Linear Regression Model with Censored Outcomes”

February 16,
Thursday
Michael Lavine
Duke University
“Subjective Likelihood for the Assessment of Trends in the Oceans”

February 22,
Wednesday
Taeyoung Park
Harvard University
“Using Incompatibility to Build Fast Gibbs Samplers with Applications in High-Energy Astrophysics”

February 27 Xianzheng (Shan) Huang
North Carolina
State University
“Latent-Model Robustness in Structural Measurement Error Models”

March 3
Friday, 2:30
Ronald Neath
University of Minnesota
“Fully Automating Monte Carlo Algorithms for Likelihood-Based Inference in Hierarchical Models”

April 10 Katherine Tranbarger
Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science,
Amherst College
“An Introduction to Prototype Point Patterns”

April 26,
Wednesday
UConn-UMass
Joint Colloquium
AT UCONN
Speaker: Recai Yucel, Biostatistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Missing Data in Cluster Samples: Design-based and Bayesian Perspectives