Yale University
Department of Statistics

Seminars 2002-2003

 Fall 2002   Spring 2003

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held each Monday at the Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 107.  Seminars begin at 4:15 pm, and are preceded by tea at 3:45 pm in the common room.  If you would like your name added to our seminar mailing list, please send your e-mail address to Kathryn Young.

Fall 2002 Seminar Schedule

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title
09 SEP 2002 Alexandre B. Tsybakov
Universite Paris VI		 Adaptive Nonparametric Classification (pdf)
16 SEP 2002 Andrew Barron
Department of Statistics
Yale University		 Informal Talk
23 SEP 2002 David Pollard
Department of Statistics
Yale University		 Informal Talk
30 SEP 2002 Peter Bartlett
Australian National University		 Two Estimation Problems in Machine Learning
07 OCT 2002 Stephen C. Stearns
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University		 Life History Evolution and the Spreading of Risk
14 OCT 2002 Hannes Leeb
Department of Statistics
University of Vienna		 Informal Talk
21 OCT 2002 Hannes Leeb
Department of Statistics
University of Vienna		 On Inference With Shrinkage-Type Estimators
28 OCT 2002 Samuel Kou
Department of Statistics
Harvard University		 Statistical Analysis of Single Molecule Experiments in Chemistry
04 NOV 2002 Andrew R. Barron
Department of Statistics
Yale University		 Information Inequalities and Central Limit Theorems 
11 NOV 2002 L.K. Jones
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Massachusetts - Lowell		 A Robust Approach to Local Estimation with Applications
to Neural Networks and Machine Learning
18 NOV 2002 Sidney Resnick
School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Cornell University		 Limits of On/Off Heirarchical Product Models for Data Transmission 
25 NOV 2002 University Recess - No Seminar N/A
03 DEC 2002 Alexandre B. Tsybakov
Universite Paris IV		 Adaptive Nonparametric Classification (pdf)

Spring 2003 Seminar Schedule

Date
Speaker
Seminar Title
13 JAN 2003 First Day of Classes - No Seminar N/A
20 JAN 2003 MLK Holiday - No Seminar N/A
27 JAN 2003 Daniel Spielman
Department of Applied Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(sponsored by the Department of Electrical Engineering)		 The Complexity of Communication Near Channel Capacity 
3 FEB 2003 Steve Qin
Department of Statistics
Harvard University		 Bayesian Haplotype Inference for Multiple Linked Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
6 FEB 2003
12:00 Noon		 Jing Wu
Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz		 Computational genefinding: probabilistic models and statistical methods
7 FEB 2003
12:00 Noon		 Jiashun Jin
Department of Statistics
Stanford University		 Detecting and Estimating Sparse Mixtures (pdf)
10 FEB 2003 Haiyan Huang
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health		 Statistical Methods for Indentifying Transcription Factor Binding Sites
19 FEB 2003
10:00 am
(rescheduled 
from 17 Feb.)		 Dragan Radulovic
Department of Statistics
Yale University		 STATQUEST, a statistical algorithm for rapid Protein Identification
24 FEB 2003 Hannes Leeb
Department of Statistics
University of Vienna		 Properties of Confidence Intervals in Regression After Variable Selection
03 MAR 2003 Ursula U. Mueller
University of Bremen		 Optimal estimators for semiparametric regression models 
10 MAR 2003 Spring Recess - No Seminar N/A
17 MAR 2003 Spring Recess - No Seminar N/A
24 MAR 2003 Sekhar C. Tatikonda
Department of Electrical Engineering
Yale University		  Inference on Graphs with Cycles
31 MAR 2003 Marten Wegkamp
Department of Statistics
Yale University		 Complexity regularization via localized random penalties (.pdf)
04 APR 2003
(Friday)
12:00 Noon		 Maury Bramson
Department of Mathematics
University of Minnesota		 Application of fluid models to recurrence and central limits for queueing
networks 
07 APR 2003 No seminar scheduled  
11 APR 2003
(Friday)
12:00 Noon		 Abraham Wyner
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania		 Boosting and the Exponential Loss: A statistical view of Boosting?
14 APR 2003  No seminar scheduled  
21 APR 2003 Richard M. Dudley
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology		 Nearly universal location and scatter parameters
28 APR 2003    

Revised 20 March 2003 ksy