Fall 2007

Information about past colloquia is available here.

Date	Speaker	Title
Wednesday, August 29, 2007	Department of Statistics Faculty, Uconn	Faculty presentation
Wednesday, September 05, 2007	Department of Statistics Faculty, Uconn	Faculty presentation
Wednesday, September 12, 2007	Jun Yan, University of Connecticut	Partly Functional Temporal Process Regression with Semiparametric Profile Estimating Functions
Wednesday, September 19, 2007	Charles Lawrence, Brown University	Abuse of the Mode and an Alternative Ensemble Based Estimator
Wednesday, September 26, 2007	Keith Holler, The Travelers	An overview of research and research jobs at the Travelers Insurance
Wednesday, October 03, 2007	Yulia R. Gel, University of Waterloo, Canada	On Autoregressive Approximations in Standard and Non-Standard Situations
Wednesday, October 10, 2007	Enrique Schisterman, NIH/NICHD	Pooling Biospecimens and Limits of Detection: Effects on ROC Curve Analysis
Wednesday, October 17, 2007	Faming Liang, Taxes A&M	Theory and Applications of Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo
Wednesday, October 24, 2007	Ofer Harel, University of Connecticut	INFERENCES ON MISSING INFORMATION UNDER MULTIPLE IMPUTATION AND TWO-STAGE MULTIPLE IMPUTATION
Thursday, November 01, 2007	Pfizer colloquium
Wednesday, November 07, 2007	Yongtao Guan, Yale University	A Thinned Block Bootstrap Variance Estimation Procedure for Inhomogeneous Spatial Point Patterns
Wednesday, November 14, 2007	Kostas Kardaras, Boston University	PRICING AND HEDGING BARRIER OPTIONS IN DIFFUSION MODELS VIA 3-DIMENSIONAL BESSEL PROCESSES
Wednesday, November 28, 2007	Jose H. Blanchet, Stat Dept of Harvard	Counting, Rare-events and Efficient Importance Sampling
Wednesday, December 05, 2007	Mokshay Madiman, Yale University	Minimax risks for distributed estimation and information inequalities