Spring 2012 

Information about past colloquia is available here.

Date	Speaker	Title
Wed, Jan 18	Tirthankar Dasgupta; Harvard	Causal inference from 2-level factorial designs
Wed, Jan 25	Andrea Foulkes; UMass Amherst	Mixed effects Modeling of Meta-Analysis P-values (MixMAP) for gene association studies
Fri, Feb 10 2:00 PM	Yulei He; Harvard Medical School	On the accuracy of classifying hospitals on their performance measures
Wed, Feb 15	Natallia Katenka; Boston University	Inference and characterization of multi-attribute networks with application to computational biology and beyond
Fri, Feb 17 2:00 PM	Linglong Kong; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Varying coefficient models for neuroimaging data
Wed, Feb 22	Juhee Lee; Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	A nonparametric Bayesian model for local clustering
Fri, Feb 24	Elizabeth D. Schifano; Harvard School of Public Health	Methods for variable selection in high-dimensional genomic studies
Wed, Feb 29	Hongxiao Zhu; Duke	Bayesian graphical models for multivariate functional data
Fri, Mar 02 2:00 PM	Xiaojing Wang ; Duke	Bayesian Analysis of Dynamic Item Response Models
Wed, Mar 07	Veera Baladandayuthapani; Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	Bayesian sparse graphical models and their applications
Wed, Mar 21	Peter Willett; UConn, EE.	Label-Free Estimation and Tracking
Wed, Apr 04	Jane Harvill; Baylor	SEMIPARAMETRIC FORECASTING OF NONLINEAR TEMPORAL PROCESSES
Mon, Apr 09 11:00 AM	Sastry G. Pantula; NSF-DMS	Opportunities in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at NSF
Wed, Apr 11	Haley Hedlin; UMass Amherst	Joint UMass-UConn Colloquium: Statistical methods for estimating temporal associations from electrocorticographic (ECoG) data
Wed, Apr 18	Ryung S. Kim; Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Analysis of Nested Case-Control Study Designs: Weighted Partial Likelihood
Wed, Apr 25	Min-ge Xie; Rutgers	Confidence Distribution, the Frequentist Distribution Estimator of a Parameter, and a General Framework for Combining Information