Fall 2008
Information about past colloquia is available here.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | Faculty Presentations | |
| Wednesday, September 03, 2008 | Faculty Presentations | |
| Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | Gerardo Hernandez-del-Valle, Columbia University | On The Brennan-Schwartz Process, Self-Similar P.D.E.’s And The Density Of Averaged Geometric Brownian Motion |
| Wednesday, September 17, 2008 | Chunrong Zhang, University of Connecticut | Nonlinear Markov Chain Geostatistics for Prediction and Simulation of Categorical Spatial Variables |
| Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | Lisha Chen, Yale Univeristy | Nonlinear Dimension Reduction through Local Multidimensional Scaling |
| Wednesday, October 01, 2008 | Samiran Sinha, Texas A&M University | A New Semiparametric Procedure for Matched Case-Control Studies with Missing Covariates |
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 | Alejandro Veen, IBM Watson Research Center (Yorktown) | Estimation of Space-time Point Process Models in Seismology and Model Assessment |
| Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | Mayetri Gupta, Boston University | Statistical challenges in the analysis of high-throughput genomic data |
| Friday, October 24, 2008 | Rajeshwari Sundaram, NIH, DHHS | Analyzing recurrent events data in presence of terminal events |
| Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | Tong Zhang, Rutgers University | Two Algorithms for Learning Sparse Representations |
| Wednesday, November 05, 2008 | Marco A. R. Ferreira, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri – Columbia | Dynamic Bayesian Multiscale Modeling |
| Friday, November 07, 2008 | Banerjee Sudipto, University of Minnesota | Hierarchical spatial modeling of additive and dominance genetic variance for large spatial trial datasets |
| Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | Nalini Ravishanker, UMass-UConn joint colloquium at the Department of Mathematics at UMass | An Effective Estimation Approach for Vector Long Memory Time Series with Application to Weather Derivatives Pricing |
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 | Thanksgiving recess, no seminars | |
| Wednesday, December 03, 2008 | Jason Fine, University of North Carolina, School of Public Health | Revisiting competing risks data |