Seminars

Monday October 8 2001
Biostatistics/Statistics Joint Introductions Seminar
Health Sciences T-625 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday October 11 2001
(Joint with CS&SS and Biostatistics).
Tom Ferryman, Pacific Northwest National Labs/Battelle, Richland WA.
"Applied Statistics Research and Development At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory"
Health Sciences T-639 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday October 15 2001
Werner Stuetzle, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Unsupervised Learning: Estimating the Cluster Tree of a Density by Analyzing the Minimal Spanning Tree of a Sample"
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday October 22 2001
Tom Quinn, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington
"The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Results and Challenges"
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday October 29 2001
Matthew Stephens, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"The Haplotyping Problem"
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday November 5 2001
Marina Meila, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
"Maximum Entropy Discrimination"
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday November 19 2001
Graham Wood, Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, New Zealand
"On the Geometry of Generalised Linear Models"
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday November 26 2001
Peter Hoff, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Mixed effects models using Bayesian nonparametrics"
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday December 3 2001
Kevin Quinn, Departments of Political Science and Statistics, University of Washington
"Bayesian Learning about Ideal Points of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1953-1999"
Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.