Friday, February 12, 1999

(Joint with the Department of Biostatistics)

Jon Wakefield

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,

Imperial College School of Medicine

"The Bayesian Approach To Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling."

Health Sciences T-639 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, February 18, 1999

(Joint with the Department of Biostatistics)

Dean Billheimer

Applied Statistics, Boeing Phantom Works.

"Statistical Methods for Shape Analysis."

Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

The Second International Conference on High-Dimensional Probability will be held at the University of Washington from August 1 to 7, 1999. The organizing committee consists of Evarist Giné, David Mason, Michel Talagrand, and Jon Wellner. Those wishing to attend should see the information about the meeting on the web at:

http//www.stat.washington.edu/hdp99/hdp.html

There may be funds available to subsidize the participation of students.

Thursday, February 11, 1999

Beatrix Jones

"Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Parametric Migration Models."

Advisor: Elizabeth A. Thompson

Gould 435 at 1.30 P.M.

Friday, February 19, 1999

Antonio Eduardo Gomes

"Lifetime and Disease Onset Distributions from Incomplete Observations."

Advisor: Jon Wellner

Loew 102 at 1.30 P.M.

Thursday, February 25, 1999

Cibele Queiroz da Silva

"Capture-recapture estimation of bowhead whale population size using photo-identification data."

Advisors: Judy Zeh, David Madigan

Electrical Engineering Building 222 at 2.30 P.M.

Cliff Lunneborg

2/15 - 5/15, Univ. of Melbourne & La Trobe Univ.

6/1 - 8/30, Univ. of Queensland & Queensland Univ. of Tech., Brisbane

9/1 - 11/30, MacQuarrie Univ., Sydney & Univ. of Sydney

12/1 - 2/15/00, Univ. of Western Australia & Murdoch Univ., Perth

Judy Zeh

1/12 - 2/9, Mexico

Jon Wellner

3/6 - 28, Free Univ., Amsterdam

The University of Washington will be closed on Monday, February 15th for Presidents day.