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 2009 SEMINARS

Date Speaker Title

Monday, Sep. 21
4pm at LGRT 1634
Erik G. Learned-Miller
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Supervised (yes, supervised) learning with 0 examples and other methods for obviating those pesky training sets

Wednesday, Oct. 14
UMass-UConn
Joint Colloquium
LGRT 219 at 4pm
Nitis Mukhopadhyay
Department of Statistics
University of Conneticut
Is There Any Magic Left in Statistical Inference and Probability?
Note refreshment at 3:30pm in LGRT 1634 & pizza at 5pm in LGRT 1634

Monday, Oct. 19
4pm at LGRT 1634
Hyunsook Lee
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Accounting for Calibration Uncertainties in X-ray Analysis: Effective Areas in Spectral Fitting

Monday, Nov. 9
4pm at LGRT 1634
Ryung S. Kim
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Challenges in studying food insecurity in US using complex survey samples

Monday, Nov. 23
4pm at LGRT 1634
Daniel W. Chambers
Mathematics Department
Boston College
Forecasting with Hidden Markov Models

Monday, Nov. 30
4pm at LGRT 1634
MS projects
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cortisol levels in pregnant women, Ozone damage to forests

Monday, Dec. 7
4pm at LGRT 1634
Cliff Konold
Scientific Reasoning Research Institute
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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