Spring 2010
Information about past colloquia is available here.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 | Shu-Min Liao, Amherst College | Heteroscedastic Unbalanced Nested Design and Fully Nonparametric ANCOVA |
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | Zhiyi Chi, UCONN | Error Controls for Multiple Hypothesis Testing |
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 | Adam Ding, Northeastern | Analysis and Identifiability for Covariate Effects Model on Survival Times under Dependent Censoring |
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut | A Critical Look at the Role of Stopping Times and Their Distributions |
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | Zheyang Wu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Statistical Power of Model Selection Strategies for Genome-Wide Association Studies |
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 | Evarist Gine, UCONN | Uniform Limit Theorems for Wavelet Density Estimators and Adaptive Estimation of Densities |
Tuesday, March 02, 2010 | ASA CT chapter | |
Friday, March 05, 2010 | Amitava Mukherjee, Umeå University, Sweden | Beat the Economic Recession to Make Money: A Semi-Sequential Monitoring Approach to Frame Guidelines for Investors |
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | Recess. No talk. | |
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | Amrita Ghosh Dastidar, Utah State University | Determination of Exchange Rate Fluctuations |
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 | Harold S. Schwenk, BGS System Inc | McCabe Lecture (Room 131 Biology Physics Building; Jointly Sponsored with the Department of Mathematics): Queueing Theory Applied to Business |
Monday, March 29, 2010 | Dorin Drignei, Oakland University | Multidimensional Kriging Methods with Applications in Climate Modeling |
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | K. Sham Bhat, Pennsylvania State University | Inference for Complex Computer Models and Large Multivariate Spatial Fields with Applications to Climate Change Research |
Friday, April 02, 2010 | Alejandro Villagran-Hernandez, Rice University | Non-Parametric Surface Approximation by Hybrid Regeneration |
Monday, April 05, 2010 | Margaret Short, University of Alaska – Fairbanks | Predicting vertical connectivity within an aquifer system: A process convolution approach to the reconstruction of a binary field |
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 | John Staudenmayer, UMass | Physical activity estimation, measurement error, and what to do about it (Joint UMass-UConn colloquium) |
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | Christos P. Tsokos, Univ of South Florida | GLOBAL WARMING: MYTH AND REALITY |
Friday, April 16, 2010 | Baojiang Chen, University of Washington | Weighted Generalized Estimating Functions for Incomplete (MAR) Longitudinal Response and Covariates Data |
Monday, April 19, 2010 | Yuehua Cui, Michigan State University | Statistical Mapping Genetic Conflicts in Pregnancy Complications |
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 | Chiungyu Huang, NIH | Estimation and Model Checking Methods for Recurrent Gap Time Data |
Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Judy Zhong, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | A Likelihood Based Flexible P-value Threshold Test for Detecting Associations with Rare Variants |
Friday, April 23, 2010 | Sangwook Kang, The University of Georgia | Marginal hazards models for case-cohort studies with multiple disease outcomes |
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | Stuart Geman, Brown | Orchestrating Computation in Hierarchical Models |
Monday, August 16, 2010 | Jinde Wang, Nanjing University | Application of optimization theory in statistics |