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Seminars

In each week of the series, there will be a Thursday evening public lecture at 7:30pm in room A110 of the Physics-Astronomy Building and a Friday lunchtime seminar at 12:30pm in room 120, Smith Hall. The Thursday evening lecture will be followed by a reception.

Thursday, April 3, 1997: Florin Vaida, University of Chicago; "Efficient Estimation of Normalizing Constants from Markov Chain Monte Carlo Draws."; Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, April 3, 1997: Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin; "Ability and the American Dream: Has Anything Changed?"; Physics-Astronomy A110 at 7:30 P.M.
Friday, April 4, 1997: Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin; "The Walking Dog Model, Tetrad Differences, and Sibling Resemblance."; Smith 120 at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, April 10, 1997: No Seminar
Friday, April 11, 1997: No Seminar
Thursday, April 17, 1997: Judea Pearl, UCLA; "From a Century of Statistics to the Age of Causation."; Physics-Astronomy A110 at 7:30 P.M.
Friday, April 18, 1997: Judea Pearl, UCLA; "The Logic of Cause and Effect: Unifying Counterfactual, Graphical and Structural Models."; Smith 120 at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, April 24, 1997: Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago; "The Causal Devolution."; Physics-Astronomy A110 at 7:30 P.M.
Friday, April 25, 1997: Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago; "Gibbs sampling for subsequence resemblance: application to rhetorical sequences."; Smith 120 at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, May 1, 1997: General Examination; Simon D. Byers; "Bayesian Analysis of Spatial Variation and Discrepant Data using MCMC methods."; Advisor: Julian Besag; Thompson 119 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, May 1, 1997: Michael E. Sobel, University of Arizona; "Causal Inference in the Social and Behavioral Sciences."; Physics-Astronomy A110 at 7:30 P.M.
Friday, May 2, 1997: Michael E. Sobel, University of Arizona; "Some Log-Linear and Log-Nonlinear Models for Ordinal Scales with Midpoints, with an Application to Public Opinion on the Environment."; Smith 120 at 12:30 P.M.
Friday, May 2, 1997: Tilman Gneiting, Department of Mathematics, Universitat Bayreuth, Germany; "Spatial Statistics."; Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, May 5, 1997: Jeffrey A. Fessler, Department of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI; "Statistical Models for Randoms-Precorrected PET (and a Saddle-Point Approximation)."; Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, May 8, 1997: James J. Heckman, University of Chicago; "Identifying And Estimating Counterfactuals in the Social Sciences: The Role of Rational Choice Theory."; Physics-Astronomy A110 at 7:30 P.M.
Friday, May 9, 1997: James J. Heckman, University of Chicago; "Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data."; Smith 120 at 12:30 P.M.
Monday, May 12, 1997: Florence Forbes, LMC/IMAG, Grenoble, France; "Morphological and Bayesian approaches in image restoration."; Loew 106 at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, May 15, 1997: Donald B. Rubin, Harvard University; "Techniques for Drawing Causal Inferences from Imperfect Studies."; Physics-Astronomy A110 at 7:30 P.M.
Friday, May 16, 1997: Donald B. Rubin, Harvard University; "Causal Inference from Imperfect Studies with Nonignorable Treatment Assignment."; Smith 120 at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, May 22, 1997: Clark Glymour, Carnegie-Mellon University; "Costner and the Structure of the Unobserved."; Physics-Astronomy A110 at 7:30 P.M.
Friday, May 23, 1997: Peter Spirtes, Carnegie-Mellon University; "Recent Advances in Causal Modelling Using Directed Graphs."; Smith 120 at 12:30 P.M.
Tuesday, May 27, 1997: General Examination; Ying Zhang; "Estimation for Counting Processes Based on Incomplete Data."; Advisor: Jon Wellner; Communications 332 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, May 29, 1997: Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley; "Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth."; Physics-Astronomy A110 at 7:30 P.M.
Friday, June 13, 1997: General Examination; Brandon J Whitcher; "Multiscale Testing of Physical Processes using the Discrete Wavelet Transform."; Advisor: Peter Guttorp and Don Percival; Loew 113 at 9:00 A.M.
Friday, May 30, 1997: Michael Hout, University of California, Berkeley; "Speed Bumps on the Road to Meritocracy: Occupational Mobility of Women and Men in the U.S., 1972-1994."; Smith 120 at 12:30 P.M.
Tuesday, June 10, 1997: Final Examination; Christopher T. Volinsky; "Bayesian Model Averaging in Censored Survival Models."; Advisor: Adrian Raftery; Thomson 335 at 11:30 A.M.
Wednesday, June 11, 1997: General Examination; Lang Wu; "Lattice Conditional Independence Models for Missing Observations in Categorical Data, in Continuous Data, and for Seemingly Unrelated Regressions."; Advisor: Michael Perlman; Loew 111 at 10:00 A.M.