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Seminars

Monday, January 5, 1998: No Seminar.
Monday, January 12, 1998: Gareth James, Department of Statistics, Stanford University; "The Error Coding Method and Majority Vote Classifiers."; Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, January 15, 1998: Gesine Reinert, University of California, Los Angeles; "Compound Poisson approximation for occurrences of multiple words in DNA sequences."; Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, January 22, 1998: (Joint with the Department of Biostatistics); Xiao-Li Meng, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago; "The Art of Data Augmentation."; Health Sciences T-639 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, January 26, 1998: Tore Schweder, University of Oslo; "Likelihood and confidence."; Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, January 29, 1998: "Final Examination."; Sylvain Sardy; "Regularization Techniques for Linear Regression with a Large Set of Carriers."; Advisor: Werner Steutzle; Parrington 313 at 10:30 A.M.
Thursday, January 29, 1998: Emmanual Candes, Stanford University; "Ridgelets: Theory and Applications."; Thomson 134 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, February 2, 1998: Probability Seminar; Dick Dudley, Professor of Mathematics, MIT; "Empirical Processes and p-variation."; Thomson 202 at 2:30 P.M.
Monday, February 2, 1998: Fredric Schoenberg, University of California, Berkeley; "Assessment of Multi-dimensional Point Process Models with Applications to Seismology."; Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, February 5, 1998: General Examination:; Craig Aumann; "A Deterministic Model of Trunk Water Flow in an Old Growth Douglas Fir: Model Assessment, Quantifying Uncertainty and Parameter Estimation."; Advisor: David Madigan and David Ford; Parrington 313 at 10:30 P.M.
Wednesday, February 11, 1998: David Moore, Purdue University; 1998 President of the American Statistical Association; "Technology for Teaching and Learning Statistics."; Mueller 153 at 2:30 P.M.
Wednesday, February 11, 1998: General Examination:; David Poole; "A Bayesian Approach to Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence for Quantities Linked by a Non-invertible Deterministic Model."; Advisor: Adrian Raftery; Thomson 234 at 3:30 P.M
Monday, February 16, 1998: No Seminar.
Monday, February 23, 1998: No Seminar.
Monday, March 2, 1998: No Seminar.
Monday, March 9, 1998: Thomas R. Richardson, Statistics Department, University of Washington; "Overview of the Intent and Goals of the Programme on Neural Networks and Machine Learning at the Isaac Newton Institute."; Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.