Welcome:
Malgorzata Bogdan, of Wroclaw University of Technology
in Poland will be visiting until August to do research with Elizabeth
Thompson.
Somesh Das Gupta, of the Indian Statistical Institute in
India will be visiting through June 2000.
Chia-Chi "Vivian" Wang and Anton H. Westveld III,
are students who have transferred into our Statistics Graduate
Program this quarter. Chia-Chi is working for CSSCR and Anton is continuing
as a TA for Stat 390.
Two Major Announcements:
Dr Jonathan Wakefield, Associate Professor in the Departments of
Statistics
and Biostatistics,
has been awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze for 2000 by the Royal Statistical Society.
The Guy Medals are the most prestigious awards made by the Society and are named
for the eminent 19th century statistician, William Guy FRS. They
are intended to encourage the cultivation of statistics in their
scientific aspects. For the Bronze Medal, which is awarded annually,
preference is given to researchers under the age of 35. The citation
for Dr Wakefield refers in particular to his published research on
the development of statistical methods, with applications to spatial
epidemiology and to population pharmacokinetic modeling. It mentions
the following three papers:
"Bayesian analysis of linear and non-linear population models using
the Gibbs sampler", Applied Statistics 43 (1994), 201-221, with A.F.M.
Smith, A. Racine-Poon and A.E. Gelfand);
"Gibbs sampling for nonconjugate and hierarchical models using auxiliary
variables", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B 61 (1998), 331-344,
with P. Damien and S.G. Walker;
"Accounting for inaccuracies in population counts and case registration
in cancer mapping studies", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A
162 (1999), 363-382, with N.G. Best.
Thomas Richardson has been promoted to Associate Professor of Statistics
with tenure.
Congratulations to Jon and Thomas for their outstanding achievements!
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Statistics Seminars:
- Thursday, January 27, 2000
- (Joint with CSSS, School of Social Work)
- Jennifer Hill, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
- "NY School Choice: An example of the link between observational studies and randomized experiments."
- School of Social Work, 4101 15th Ave NE, Room 306 A/B at 12:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, February 2, 2000
- (Joint with CSSS, School of Social Work)
- Daniel Cork, Department of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University
- "Crack markets and the diffusion of guns among youth."
- School of Social Work, 4101 15th Ave NE, Room 26/30 at 12:30 P.M.
- Thursday, February 17, 2000
- David Denison, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London
- "Bayesian partition modeling."
- Kane 120 at 12:30 P.M.
- Monday, February 28, 2000
- Robert E. Kass, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
- "Curve Fitting and Neuron Firing Patterns."
- Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, March 1, 2000
- (Joint with CSSS)
- Pedro Domingos, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- "Why Do Model Ensembles Work?"
- Savery 209 at 12:30 P.M.
Out of Town:
- Cliff Lunneborg
- 12/1 - 2/15/00, Univ. of Western Australia & Murdoch Univ., Perth
- Elizabeth Thompson
- 1/27-28, Columbia Univ.
- 2/20-22, AAAS Annual Meeting
- 3/19-22, ENAR, Chicago
- Werner Stuetzle
- 9/99 - 9/00, on sabbatical
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