Seminars

Monday, March 26 2001
(Joint with Department of Computer Science and Engineering).
Brendan Frey, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.
"Part 1: Overview of Adaptive Algorithms Lab at the University of Toronto."
"Part 2: ALGONQUIN: Fast Variational Methods for Robust Speech Recognition or Variational Methods Explained using Cartoons."
EE1 105 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, March 29 2001
(Joint with Department of Biostatistics).
Oliver Will, Center for Computational and Experimental Genomics, University of Southern California.
"Molecular and Fossil Estimates of Primate Divergence: A Reconciliation."
HSB T-639 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, April 2 2001
Adrian Raftery, Department of Statistics.
"Bayesian Multidimensional Scaling and Choice of Dimension."
LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, April 5 2001
(Joint with Department of Biostatistics).
Moulinath Banerjee, Department of Statistics.
"Likelihood Ratio Inference for Current Status Data and Related Models Involving Nonparametric Estimation of a Monotone Function."
HSB T-639 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, April 9 2001
Michael Eichler, University of Heidelberg.
"Causal Inference From Graphical Time Series Models."
LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Tuesday, April 10 2001
General Examination.
Russell Steele.
"Importance Sampling Approaches to Missing Data Problems."
Advisor: Adrian E. Raftery.
Denny Hall 314 at 2:30 P.M.

Monday, April 16 2001
Vladimir I. Koltchinskii, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico.
"Empirical Margin Distributions and Bounding the Generalization Error in Learning Problems."
LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, April 23 2001
Elizabeth Thompson, Department of Statistics.
"Probabilities on Pedigrees: What? How? and Why?"
LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, April 30 2001
(Joint with NRCSE).
Ernst Linder, University of New Hampshire.
"Estimating Local Trends in Large Environmental Spatial Temporal Databases."
LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, May 7 2001
Chris Triggs, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland.
"The Forensic and Statistical Science of Evidence Derived from Fragments of Glass."
LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, May 10 2001
Final Examination.
Jacob A. Wegelin.
"Latent Models for Cross-Covariance."
Advisors: Thomas Richardson and Paul Sampson.
Thomson 125 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, May 14 2001
Jon Wellner, Department of Statistics.
"In Memory of Lucien Le Cam (1924 - 2000): Seven of Le Cam's Theorems Every Statistician Should Know."
LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, May 17 2001
General Examination.
Jeremy Tantrum.
"Model Based Document Clustering."
Advisors: Alejandro Murua and Werner Stuetzle.
ART 003 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, May 21 2001
No Seminar. NRCSE workshop: Spatial Moving Average Models .

Monday, May 28 2001
No Seminar.

Tuesday, May 29 2001
(Joint with Electrical Engineering).
Kit Withers, Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand.
"The Distribution of Channel Capacity for Transmit/Receive Array Antennas."
ART 003 at 11:00 A.M.

Monday, June 4 2001
Claudia Czado, University of Technology, Munich, Germany.
"State space mixed models for longitudinal observations with binary and binomial responses."
SMI 102 at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday, June 6 2001
Charles J. Stone, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.
"Extended Linear Modeling with Splines."
LOW 105 at 3:30 P.M.