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 2009 SEMINARS

Date Speaker Title

Monday, Feb. 9
4pm at LGRT 1634(Canceled)
Lisa A. Keller
Research and Evaluation Methods Program in the School of Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Psychometrics: A Statistical Application to Education

Monday, Feb. 23
4pm at LGRT 1634(Canceled)
Cliff Konold
Scientific Reasoning Research Institute
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Teaching core ideas in data and chance in the middle school

Monday, Mar. 9
4pm at LGRT 1634
David Smith
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Language without Grammar: Graph Algorithms and Syntactic Analysis

Monday, Mar. 30
4pm at LGRT 1634
Surajit Ray
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Boston University
Clustering and classification of functional data

Wednesday, Apr. 1
UConn-UMass
Joint Colloquium
At UConn
Daeyoung Kim
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
k-deleted Likelihood in Normal Mixture Models

Monday, Apr. 13
4pm at LGRT 1634
William H. Jefferys
Department of Astronomy
University of Texas Austin
Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution

Monday, Apr. 27
4pm at LGRT 1634
Arindam RoyChoudhury
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
Cornell University
Estimation of Population Tree from Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Data

Friday, May. 1
4pm at LGRT 1528
Refreshments at 3:45(LGRT 1634)
Paul Marriott
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Waterloo
Understanding sensitivity to model choice: a computational information geometry approach


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