Seminars
Monday, September 25 2000
Research Day Part I
Jon Wellner and Russell Steele.
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday September 28 2000
(Joint with Department of Biostatistics)
"Welcoming Seminar"
This is a traditional gathering of the students and faculties of both departments to introduce ourselves to each other. Please come!
HST T639 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, October 2 2000
Research Day Part II
Tilmann Gneiting and Shuguang Song.
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Friday, October 6 2000
New Faculty Orientation Seminars.
Peter Hoff, Marina Meila & Matthew Stephens, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
TBA at 12:30 P.M.

Monday, October 9 2000
Michael Perlman, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
"Sharpening Buffon's Needle."
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Friday, October 13 2000
New Faculty Orientation Seminars.
Mark Handcock, Martina Morris & Kevin Quinn, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
TBA at 12:30 P.M.

Monday, October 16 2000
(Special Probability Seminar)
Persi Diaconis, Walker-Ames Distinguished visitor from Stanford University.
"Probability, Statistics and the Zeros of the Zeta Function".
MLR 301 at 2:30 P.M.

Monday, October 16 2000
(Joint with Department of Biostatistics)
Susan Holmes, Stanford University.
"Confidence Regions for Phylogenetic Trees".
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Tuesday, October 17 2000
Susan Holmes, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.
"Probability by Surprise: the Pleasure of Paradoxes".
AND 022 at 12:30 P.M.

Tuesday, October 17 2000
(Departments of Mathematics and Statistics Joint Colloquium)
Persi Diaconis, Walker-Ames Distinguished visitor from Stanford University.
"What do we know about the Metropolis algorithm?"
MLR 301 at 4:00 P.M.

Wednesday, October 18 2000
(Public Walker-Ames Lecture)
Persi Diaconis, Walker-Ames Distinguished visitor from Stanford University.
"On Coincidences."
Kane Hall 210 at 7:00 PM.

Monday, October 23 2000
Werner Stuetzle, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
"Some Aspects of John Tukey's Work in Multivariate Analysis."
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, October 30 2000
(Joint with NRCSE).
Caren Marzban, visitor to NRCSE from the National Severe Storms Lab, NOAA and Dept. of Physics, University of Oklahoma.
"On the Correlation Between U.S. Tornadoes and Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures."
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Tuesday, October 31 2000
General Examination.
Shuguang Song.
"Estimation with Bivariate Interval Censored Data: Bivariate Current Status Data."
Advisor: Jon A. Wellner.
MEB 243 at 1:30 P.M.

Monday, November 6 2000
Thomas Richardson, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
"Markov models and data-generating processes."
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, November 13 2000
Krzysztof Burdzy, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington.
"Remarks on the philosophy of Bayesian decision making."
Discussant: Matthew Stephens, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, November 16 2000
Final Examination.
Moulinath Banerjee.
"Likelihood ratio inference for monotone functions in a class of non-regular problems."
Advisor: Jon A. Wellner.
More 221 at 1:30 P.M.

Friday, November 17 2000
(Pacific Northwest Statistics Meeting).
June Morita, University of Washington-Bothell.
"Contributions to Statistical Literacy."
Parrington Hall 108 at 1:45 P.M.

Friday, November 17 2000
(Pacific Northwest Statistics Meeting).
Constance van Eeden, University of British Columbia.
"Estimation in Restricted Parameter Spaces: Some History and Some Recent Developments."
Parrington Hall 108 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, November 20 2000
No Seminar.
The Department of Biostatistics is holding a symposium on the analysis of correlated data on Nov. 20 & 21 with many distinguished speakers.

Monday, November 27 2000
David Madigan, Soliloquy Inc.
"Likelihood-based Data Squashing: A Modeling Approach to Instance Construction."
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday, November 29 2000
(Joint with CSSS)
Ingram Olkin, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.
"Apportionment Methods in Proportional Representation: A Majorization Representation."
Savery 209 at 12:30 P.M.

Thursday, November 30 2000
Final Examination.
Peter Craigmile.
"Wavelet Based Estimation for Trend Contaminated Long Memory Processes."
Advisor: Peter Guttorp and Donald B. Percival.
Department of Social Work and Speech, room 32 at 10:30 A.M.

Monday, December 4 2000
Guenther Walther, Stanford University.
"Bikernel Oscillation Analysis for the Mixture Complexity."
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.