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Summer Seminars 2004! Data, donuts, and much, much more...

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 2003 Seminar Schedule

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title
08 SEP 2003 Ann Green
Steven Citron-Pousty
Social Science Research Services/Statlab
Yale University		 Statlab Plus = Social Science Research Services
15 SEP 2003 Mehmet Caner
Department of Economics
University of Pittsburgh		 Exponential Tilting With Weak Instruments: Estimation and Testing (.pdf)
22 SEP 2003 Dietmar Bauer
Department of Econometrics, Systems Theory and Operations Research
Technical University of Vienna		 Estimating linear dynamical models using subspace methods
Related paper HERE.
Slides from talk HERE.
29 SEP 2003 Donald Green
Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Yale University		 Randomized Field Experiments in the Social Sciences: Current Work at Yale
Related paper HERE.
Related work HERE.
06 OCT 2003 Xiaohong Chen
Department of Economics
New York University		 Two Papers on Semi-Nonparametric Ill-posed Inverse Problems in Econometrics (pdf)
13 OCT 2003 Hani Doss
Department of Statistics
Ohio State University		 A computing environment for visualization of posterior distributions obtained from MCMC output
20 OCT 2003 Kenneth Kidd
Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine		 DNA Sequence Variation
(link to ALFRED database)
27 OCT 2003 Enrique Alvarez
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut		 Estimation in Window-Censored Semi-Markov Processes
03 NOV 2003 Jin Feng
Department of Mathematics & Statistics 
University of Massachusetts - Amherst		 Relative entropy, large deviation and binding tightness between two molecules
10 NOV 2003 Zhiliang Ying
Department of Statistics
Columbia University 		 Semiparametric AFT model for survival data: inference, 
implementation and theory (including related papers)
17 NOV 2003 Vince Calhoun
Department of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine		 Does it take more than two to tango?
The use of higher order statistics for the analysis of functional brain imaging data.
24 NOV 2003 University Recess - No Seminar N/A
01 DEC 2003 Efstathia Bura
Department of Statistics
George Washington University 		Reduced-Rank Regression: A Dimensionality Reduction Perspective

Spring 2004 Seminar Schedule

Date

Speaker

Seminar Title
12 JAN 2004 First Day of Classes - No Seminar N/A
19 JAN 2004 MLK Holiday - No Seminar N/A
26 JAN 2004 Wing Wong
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health		 Analysis of cis-regulatory signal in the genome
02 FEB 2004 Harrison Zhou
Department of Mathematics
Cornell University 		Function Estimation via Asymptotic Equivalence
09 FEB 2004 No Seminar Today
Thursday
12 FEB 2004
12:00 Noon		 Ery Arias-Castro
Department of Statistics
Stanford University 		Connect-The-Dots: How many random points can a regular curve pass through?
16 FEB 2004 Mark van der Laan
Division of Biostatistics and Statistics
UC Berkeley 		Cross-Validated Deletion/Substitution/Addition Algorithms in Learning: Applications in Genomics
23 FEB 2004 Ming Yuan
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin - Madison 		Efficient Empirical Bayes Variable Selection and Estimation
01 MAR 2004 Gabor Lugosi
Department of Economics
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona		 Moment inequalities for functions of independent random variables
08 MAR 2004 University Recess - No Seminar N/A
15 MAR 2004 University Recess - No Seminar N/A
22 MAR 2004 No Seminar Scheduled N/A
29 MAR 2004 Per Mykland
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago		 A tale of two time scales Determining integrated volatility with noisy high frequency data.
05 APR 2004 Edward George
Department of Statistics
The Wharton School		 Improved Minimax Prediction Under Kullback-Leibler Loss
Ed George, Feng Liang and Xinyi Xu
Related paper (pdf format)
12 APR 2004 Rudolf Beran
Department of Statistics
University of California - Davis		 Beyond ANOVA Devising Low-Risk Bayes Fits to Discrete Multi-way Layouts
19 APR 2004 Rafael Irizarry
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University		 Some Musical Applications of Statistics
26 APR 2004 Lee Jones
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Improved estimators for kernel vector machines and determination of local kernel shape without cross validation
03 MAY 2004 Marcelo J. Moreira
Department of Economics
Harvard University		 Optimal Invariant Similar Tests for Instrumental Variables Regression
Related paper (pdf format)

Revised 30 April 2004 ksy