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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 Amy Mulholland.

Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule


Date

Speaker

Seminar Title

Sept. 11, 2006 Yazhen Wang
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
Asymptotic Equivalence Study of Stochastic Models in Finance
Sept. 18 2006 Richard Nickl
Department of Mathematics
University of Connecticut
Uniform Central Limit Theorems for Density Estimators
Sept. 25 Zhiyi Chi
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
Constraints on FDR control and ways to address them.
Oct. 2 2006 Rong Chen
Prof. of Information and Decision Sciences
NSF & University of Illinois at Chicago
Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Their Applications: An Overview and Recent Developments
Oct. 9 2006 William Strawderman
Department of Statistics
Rutgers University
Minimax Generalized Bayes Estimates of Location in Non-Normal Problems.
Oct. 16 2006 Eric Gautier
Department of Economics
Yale University
Some applications of large diviations for stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
Oct. 23 2006 Michael Steele
University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School
Random Minimal Spanning Trees: Exact and Asymptotic Formulas for Lengths.
Oct. 30 2006 Ravi Montenegro
Asst. Professor Mathematical Science
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Cheeger Inequalities for Eigenvalue of non-reversible Markov Kernels.
Nov. 6 2006 Liam Paninski
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Two problems from neural data analysis: sparse entropy estimation and adaptive experimental design.
Nov. 13 2006 Maxim Raginsky
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Joint Universal Lossy Coding and Identification of Stationary Mixing Sources.
Nov. 20 2006 Thanksgiving Break
No Seminar
Nov. 27 2006 Tian Zheng
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Design and Analysis of "How Many Xs Do You Know?" Surveys
Nov. 29 2006 Yale Communications & Networking Seminar
Yale University
4:00 pm, Watson Rm 500
Sean Meyn
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Extremal Distributions in Information Theory and Hypothnesis Testing.
Nov. 30 2006 Werner Stuetzle
Department of Statistics
University of Washington
no title
Dec. 4 2006 Andreas Buja
University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School
Bias and Variance of Bagging based on Subsampling with and without replacement.
Dec. 11 2006 Dylan Small
University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School
GMM vs. R-Estimates: A Case Study of Validity and Efficiency
Dec. 18 2006 Winter Break
No Seminar
Dec. 25 2006 Winter Break
No Seminar
Jan. 1 2007 Winter Break
No Seminar
Jan. 8 2007 Winter Break
No Seminar
Jan. 15 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
No Seminar
Jan. 29 2007 Yoav Benjamini
Department of Statistics & Operations Research
Tel Aviv University
What Can be Learned about False Discovery Rates from Very Large Problems.
Feb. 05 2007 Xuming He
Department of Statistics
University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
Markov Chain Marginal Bootstrap.
Feb. 12 2007 Carl Morris
Department of Statistics
Harvard
Constructing, approximating, and evaluating multi-level procedures.
Feb. 19 2007 Steve Schwager
Department of Biological Statistics
Cornell University
Global Assesment of Contaminants and Risk-Benefit Analysis for Farmed and Wild Salmon.
Feb. 28 2007 Larry Shepp
Department of Statistics
Rutgers University
Medical Imaging: from CAT scanning to functional MRI
Mar. 5 2007 Nan Laird
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
Genome Wide Association Studies with Family Based Designs.
Mar. 12 2007 Spring Break
No Seminar
Mar. 19 2007 Spring Break
No Seminar
Mar. 26 2007 Xihong Lin
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard University
Nonparametric and semiparametric regression for incomplete clustered/longitudinal using spline and profile EM
Apr. 2 2007 Eric Kolaczyk
Department of Mathematics
Boston University
Network Kriging
Apr. 5 2007 Martin Wainwright
Joint Yale Communications & Networking Seminar & Yale Statistics Seminar.
High Dimensional Statistical Inference: Practical & Information-Theoretic Limits on Sparsity Recovery.
Apr. 9 2007 Dipak Dey
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
K-means Clustering: A novel probabilistic modeling with applications.
Apr. 16 2007 David Madigan
Department of Statistics
Rutgers University
Lasso Regression with Structured Inputs.
Apr. 23 2007 -
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Apr. 30 2007 -
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May 3 2007 Tong Zhang
A Theory of L1 Regularization
May 24 2007 Andrew Barron & Xi Luo
Yale University
Department of Statistics
Adaptive Annealing
May 31 2007 Peter Hall
Mathematical Sciences Institute
Bootstrap aggregation for cross-valdiationi and inference under constraints.