Department of Statistics, Yale University

Fall 2006 Spring 2007 Past Years

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 toPatricia Wooding.

Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
Sept. 10	Ami Klin & Warren Jones Yale Child Study Center	-
Sept. 17	Henrik Hult Brown University Applied Mathematics	Rare events for stochastic processes with heavy tails.
Sept. 18	Biostatistcis Seminar 4:15 pm. LEPH 115, 60 College St. Runze Li Department of Statistics Pennsylvania State University	"Turning parameter selection for nonconvex penalized least squares approach".
Sept. 24	Linda Zhao Department of Statistics The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania	Good Estimates for Gaussian Models Having a Blcok-wise Structure.
Oct. 1	Xiaohong Chen Department of Economics Yale University	Estimation of semi/nonparmetric conditional moment models with possibly nonsmooth moments.
Oct. 8	Hannes Leeb Department of Statistics Yale University	(informal seminar)
Oct. 15	Juihui Wang Department of Statistics Columbia University	On Margin Based Semisupervised Learning
Oct. 22	Vivek S. Borkar School of Technology and Computer Science Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	An Introduction to reinforcement learning.
Oct. 29	Stephen Stigler Department of Statistics University of Chicago	Five Great Errors by Great Statisticians.
Nov. 5	Ian McKeague Department of Biostatistics Columbia University	Analyzing trajectories: functional predictors of univariate responses.
Nov. 12	Rob Kass Department of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University	Some Statistical Methods for Analyzing Neural Spike Trains.
Nov. 19	Thanksgiving Break	No Seminar
Nov. 26	Ji Zhu Department of Statistics University of Michigan	Group variable selection via Hierarchy Lasso and it's Oracle Property.
Dec.3	Michael Nussbaum Department of Mathematics Cornell University	The Chernoff lower bound for symmetric quantum hypothesis testing.
Dec. 10	Winter Break	No Seminar
Dec. 17	Winter Break	No Seminar
Dec. 24	Winter Break	No Seminar
Dec. 31	Winter Break	No Seminar
Jan. 7	Winter Break	No Seminar
Jan. 14	Robin Pemantle Department of Mathematics University of Pennsylvania	An upper bound on the time to obtain a square subproduct in Pomerance's model for quadratic sieving.
Jan. 21	Martin Luther King Jr. Day	No Seminar
Jan. 28	Nick Read Yale University Physics Department	Geometry of random minimum spanning trees.
Feb. 4	Prasad Tetali School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology	On Correlation Decay in Matchings and Multi-spin Systems.
Feb. 11	Sergey Bobkov Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota	Concentrations of distributions of sums and randomized CLT's for dependent observations.
Feb. 18	Jose Blanchet Department of Statistics Harvard University	Free Energy Estimation, Rare Events and Efficient Importance Sampling.
Feb. 25	Xin Qi Biostatistics Department Yale University	Functional CLT spatial birth and death processes and application in spatial statistics.
Mar. 3	Victor De La pena Department of Statistics Columbia University	-
Mar. 10	Spring Break	No Seminar
Mar. 17	Spring Break	No Seminar
Mar. 24	Vijay Nair Department of Statistics University of Michigan	-
Mar. 31	Erick Matsen Department of Statistics UC Berkeley	The Geometry of Phylogenetics
Apr. 7	Ping Li Department of Statistical Science Cornell University	Compressed Counting and Stable Random Projections-
Apr. 14	Alexei Onatski Economics Department Columbia University	Testing hypotheses about the number of factors in large factor models-
Apr. 21	Michael Trosset Indiana Statistical Consulting Center Indiana University	Locally Linear Embedding is a Laplacian Eigenmap-
Apr. 28	Edumund Yeh Yale University Electrical Engineering	The Critical Density for Percolation in Ramdon Geometric Graphs-

Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule

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