Yale University
Department of Statistics
Seminar list for 1999-00 
FALL 1999, SPRING 2000
The Department of Statistics & Biostatistics Joint Seminars occur weekly
on Mondays at 4:15 in the Room 107 at 24 Hillhouse Avenue or at Rm. 101,
LEPH, 60 College Street. If you would like to add your name to our seminar
mailing list, send your e-mail address to Corky.
Seminars held at 24 Hillhouse are preceded by tea at 3:45 in the common room.
FALL SEMINARS
Monday, September 13, 1999
Peter Bickel
Department of Statistics
University of California - Berkeley
Selecting m in the m out of n bootstrap
(Joint with A. Sakov)
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, September 20, 1999
Douglas A. Abraham
Electrical & Systems Engineering Department
University of Connecticut
Statistical Analysis and Normalization of Non-Rayleigh Active Sonar Reverberation
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, September 27, 1999
David Pollard
Department of Statistics
Yale University
The Gaussian Isoperimetric Inequality.
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, October 4, 1999
Marten Wegkamp
Department of Statistics
Yale University
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Weak Convergence of Smoothed Empirical Processes
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, October 11, 1999
Keith Lewis
Banc of America Securities, LLC
Montgomery Division
Generalizing Black-Scholes from Brownian motion to Levy processes.
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, October 25, 1999
Per Mykland
Department of Statistics
The University of Chicago
Statistics and the pricing of options
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, November 1, 1999
Daniel Rabinowitz
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Adjusting for confounding due to population admixture
with tests of some hypotheses that arise in statistical genetics.
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, November 8, 1999
Matt Wand
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Semiparametric Regression and Mixed Models
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, November 29, 1999
Florentina Bunea
Department of Statistics
University of Washington
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, December 6, 1999
Konstantin Mischaikow
Director, Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies
Georgia Institute of Technology
Symbolic Dynamic from Time Series
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
SPRING SEMINARS
Monday, January 10, 2000
Oliver Johnson
Christ's College and Statistical Laboratory
University of Cambridge
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, January 17, 2000
Stanley Sawyer
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, January 24, 2000
Nicolas Hengartner
Department of Statistics, Yale University
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, January 31, 2000
Andrew Carter
Department of Statistics, Yale University
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, February 7, 2000
Anne-Laure Fougeres
Universite Paul Sabatier et INSA
Toulouse, FRANCE
Estimation of a bivariate extreme value distribution
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, February 14, 2000
Steen Andersson
Department of Mathematics
Indiana University
On the general Wishart distribution on homogeneous cones
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, February 28, 2000
Donna Spiegelman
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, March 27, 2000
Yi Zhou
Goldman-Sachs
Implied SPX500 Volatility Risk
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, April 3, 2000
Lanh Tran
Department of Mathematics
Indiana University
NONPARAMETRIC DENSITY AND REGRESSION ESTIMATION FOR RANDOM FIELDS
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, April 10, 2000
Marc G. Genton
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robust simulation based estimation of ARMA and STAR models
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, April 17, 2000
Werner Stuetzle
Department of Statistics
University of Washington, Seattle
(currently visiting AT&T Labs - Research)
Robust simulation based estimation of ARMA and STAR models
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107,
Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
LMK 11 Apr 00