Pip Courbois, our VIGRE postdoc, is finishing his work at Oregon State and will arrive in December.

Wednesday, November 17, 1999

General Examination:

Peter Francis Craigmile

"Trend Estimation Using Wavelets."

Advisors: Peter Guttorp, Don Percival

Padelford C-301 at 12.30 P.M.

Monday, November 15, 1999

Professor Scott Emmerson, University of Washington

"Group Sequential Methods for Clinical Trials Using S+SeqTrial."

Hale's Ales Brewery at 6.00 P.M.

Please RSVP to Sonia Souza at SouzaS@msn.com or 425-485-1900 x2570 by Friday, November 12.

Gayle Gray

11/4 -11/12, vacation

Cliff Lunneborg

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

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

Elizabeth Thompson

11/29 - 11/30, NCSU program project review

12/11 - 12/13, CMS in Montreal

Werner Stuetzle

9/99 - 9/00, on sabbatical.

Jon Wellner

10/7 - 11/9.

11/13 - 12/6, University of Amsterdam.

Monday, November 8, 1999

Beatrix Jones and Michael Perlman, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

"Some Non-Standard Statistical Problems."

Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday, November 17, 1999

(Joint with the Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences)

Steve Fienberg, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

"Estimating the Size of Populations."

Physics/Astronomy A-118 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, November 18, 1999

(Public talk)

Steve Fienberg, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

"To Sample or Not to Sample? Why is that the question for Census 2000?."

Hub Auditorium at 7:30 P.M.

Monday, November 22, 1999

Hans Skaug, Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

"Allele sharing methods for estimating population size."

Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, November 29, 1999

Adrian Raftery and Chris Fraley, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

"Model-Based Clustering, Image Denoising, Feature Detection in Spatial Point Processes, and Datamining."

Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.