Seminars

Monday, March 30, 1998
No Seminar.

Monday, April 6, 1998
Roberto Altschul, Boeing Applied Statistics Group and Affiliate Associate Professor, Statistics Dept., UW
"Statistics at the Boeing Company."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, April 13, 1998
No Seminar.

Monday, April 20, 1998
Alejandro Murua, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Automated Recognition of Bioacoustic Signals."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday, April 22, 1998
General Examination:
Cibele Queiroz Da Silva
"Capture-Recapture Estimation of Bowhead Whale Population Size and Adult Survival Rate Using Photo Identification Data."
Advisors: Judy Zeh and David Madigan
Thomson Hall 334 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, April 23, 1998
General Examination:
Sharon Browning
"Monte Carlo Likelihood for Identity-by-Descent Data."
Advisor: Elizabeth Thompson
Balmer 306 at 12:00 P.M.

Monday, April 27, 1998
R. L. Tweedie, Colorado State University and O. Stramer, University of Iowa
"Self-Targeting Candidates for Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday, April 29, 1998
R. L. Tweedie, Colorado State University
"Perfect Sampling of Harris Recurrent Markov Chains."
Thomson 202 at 2:30 P.M.

Monday, May 4, 1998
Andy Siegel, Management Science and Finance, University of Washington
"Analysis of Sequence-Tagged-Connector Strategies for DNA Sequencing."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, May 11, 1998
Jean-Francois Cardoso, CNRS/ENST
"Independent Component Analysis."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, May 18, 1998
Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics,
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences,
University of Virginia School of Medicine
"Regression Modeling and Validation Strategies, with an Interactive Analysis of Titanic Passenger Survival."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday, May 20, 1998
Probability Seminar, Department of Mathematics
Peter Green, University of Bristol, UK
"Exact sampling from a continuous state space."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, May 21, 1998
(Joint with the Department of Biostatistics)
Peter Green, University of Bristol, UK
"Bayesian exploration of heterogeneity, with the aid of variable dimension MCMC."
Health Sciences T-639 at 3:30 P.M

Monday, June 1, 1998
Richard Karp, Departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Molecular Biotechnology
"Analysis of a Strategy for Sequencing the Human Genome."
Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, June 4, 1998
Final Examination:
Ying Zhang
"Estimation for Counting Processes with Incomplete Data."
Advisor: Jon Wellner
Communications Building 326 at 3:30 P.M.

Friday, June 5, 1998
General Examination:
Enrica Bellone
"Hidden Markov Models for Precipitation."
Advisors: Peter Guttorp and Jim Hughes
Johnson Hall 123 at 10:00 A.M.