Spring 2011 

Information about past colloquia is available here.

Date	Speaker	Title
Wednesday, January 19, 2011	Dai Feng, Merck	A New Algorithm to Generate Samples from the Repulsion Potts Model
Wednesday, January 26, 2011		Canceled due to snow
Wednesday, February 02, 2011		Canceled due to snow
Wednesday, February 09, 2011	Yaakov Bar-Shalom, UConn	The Information Limit in Clutter: CRLB in the Presence of False Measurements and the ML-PDA Estimator
Wednesday, February 16, 2011	Emiliano A. Valdez, UConn	Statistical Modeling of Life Insurance Policy Termination and Survivorship
Wednesday, February 23, 2011	Jeongyoun Ahn, U Georgia	Piling in HDLSS discrimination
Wednesday, March 02, 2011	Zhijin Wu, Brown	Empirical Bayes Analysis of Sequencing-based Transcriptional Profiling without Replicates
Wednesday, March 09, 2011		Spring Break
Monday, March 14, 2011	Gabriel Huerta, U New Mexico	Time-varying and spatial modeling of precipitation extremes
Wednesday, March 16, 2011	Daniel Meyer, Pfizer	Non-inferiority Trials in Phase 3 Drug Development
Wednesday, March 23, 2011	Vishwanath (Mahesh) Iyer, Novartis Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.	A modified single step procedure adaptive FDR controlling procedure
Wednesday, March 30, 2011	Krista Gile, U Mass	Network Model-Assisted Prevalence Estimation from Respondent-Driven Sampling Data (Joint UConn-UMass Colloquium)
Wednesday, April 06, 2011	Tevfik Aktekin, U New Hampshire	Bayesian State Space Modeling of Mortgage Default Risk
Wednesday, April 13, 2011	Cleve Moler, Mathworks	The Evolution of MATLAB (McCabe Lecture at 1pm Konover Auditorium Dodd Center)
Wednesday, April 20, 2011	Heping Zhang, Yale	A Forest Approach to Identification of Genes and Gene-Environment Interactions for Complex Diseases
Wednesday, April 27, 2011	Nilanjan Chatterjee, NCI	A subset-based approach for flexible and powerful meta-analysis of heterogeneous studies