Spring 2008

Information about past colloquia is available here.

Date	Speaker	Title
Friday, February 01, 2008	Rima Izem, Harvard University	Analyzing Nonlinear Variation in Functional Data
Friday, February 08, 2008	Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania	Statistical Methods for Network-Based Analysis of Genomic Data
Wednesday, February 13, 2008	Naitee Ting and Scott Evans, Pfizer and Harvard University	Preparing for the Job Market
Wednesday, February 20, 2008	Charles Lawrence, Brown University	Abuse of the Mode in Genomics and an Ensemble Alternative: Forgotten Role of Entropy
Friday, February 22, 2008	Dennis Lin, Penn State University	BIG Statistics
Wednesday, February 27, 2008	Tian Zheng, Columbia University	Information-driven screening strategies for complex traits
Saturday, March 01, 2008	Professors Dipak Dey and Jun Yan	Faculty Presentations
Wednesday, March 05, 2008	Ji Meng Loh, Columbia University	Accounting for Spatial Correlation in the Scan Statistic
Wednesday, March 19, 2008	Juerg Ott, Rockefeller University
Friday, March 28, 2008	Shelemyahu Zacks, Binghamton University	The Exact Distributions of The Stopping Times and Their Functionals in Two-Stage and Sequential Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals of The Exponential Parameter
Wednesday, April 16, 2008	David Landau, University of Georgia	A New Approach to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics and Beyond
Friday, April 18, 2008	Jayanta Pal, Duke University	End-point Estimation for Decreasing Densities: Asymptotic Behavior of the Penalized Likelihood Ratio
Friday, April 25, 2008	Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University