Statistics Seminars:
- Thursday, March 4, 1999
- Matthew Cooper, Center for Imaging Science, The Johns Hopkins University
- "Information Measures for Object Recognition Accommodating Signature Variation."
- Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
- Friday, March 5, 1999
- Mark Berman, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- "Algorithms and Software for the Automated Identification of Minerals using Field Spectra or Hyperspectral Imagery."
- Padelford C-301 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, March 8, 1999
- John Castelloe, SAS Institute, Inc.
- "Issues in Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Composite EM Analysis, Applied to Spatial Poisson Cluster Process."
- Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Out of Town:
- Judy McPhee
- 3/22-3/26, Arizona
- Cliff Luneborg
- 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
- Elizabeth Thompson
- 3/13-3/19, SEMSTAT, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 3/23, RSS Meeting, England
- 3/25-3/27, HSSS Meeting, FInland
- Jon Wellner
- 3/6-3/28, Free Univ., Amsterdam
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Final Examination:
- Wednesday, March 3, 1999
- Nilanjan Chatterjee
- "Semiparametric Inference Based on Estimating Equations in Regressions Models for Two Phase Outcome Dependent Sampling."
- Advisors: Norman E. Breslow, Jon A. Wellner
- Thompson 125 at 3.30 P.M.
General Examination:
- Thursday, March 11, 1999
- Gregory Kirk Ridgeway
- "Methods for Boosting and Massive Dataset Bayesian Inference."
- Advisors: David Madigan, Thomas S. Richardson
- Thompson 325 at 3:30 P.M.
Congratulations, Goodbye & Best Wishes:
Eduardo Gomes and Cibele Queiroz da Silva
have passed their exams and will be going to Brazil
on March 10th. They will resume their faculty positions
at UFMG-ICEx-Dep Estatistica.
Puget Sound Chapter - Dinner and Talk:
- March 10, 1999
- Cam McIntosh, Information Specialist, Census Bureau, Seattle Regional Office
- "Census 2000 Update."
- 6.00 P.M. at SIAM on Lake Union, 1880 Fairview Ave. E.
RSVP: to Bruce Peterson (425)868-9268 or email:
bapeters@terastat.com.
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