Department of Statistics - University of Michigan

Department of Statistics
Winter 2008 Seminars

Statistics Department seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. on Fridays.
Coffee and cookies precede the seminar in the Department lounge
450 West Hall, 15 minutes prior to the seminar.

Date	Speaker	Location
January 4	Ou Zhao University of Michigan Department of Statistics Isotonic Regression and Stationary Random Walks	11:30 am B760 EH
January 11	No Seminar	11:30 am B760 EH
January 18	Stilian Stoev University of Michigan Department of Statistics Max-stable processes: representations, ergodic properties and some statistical applications	11:30 am B760 EH
January 25	Jenny Young University of Michigan Department of Mathematics Optimal Investment Strategy to Minimize the Probability of Lifetime Ruin	11:30 am B760 EH
February 1	Robert L. Wardrop University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Statistics Reflections on Teaching Introductory Statistics: The first 33 years	11:30 am B760 EH
February 6	Ying (Alison) Cheng University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Psychology Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT): Issues and Possible Solutions to Some of Them	10:00 am 1322 School of Education (Tribute Room)
February 8	MISSISS To be announced	To be determined
February 14	Eric Tchetgen Harvard University School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics Novel Applications of U-statistics: Robust Inference in the Semilinear Regression Model and Optimal Model Selection with Data Missing at Random	10:15 am B760 EH
February 15	Tony Cai The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Department of Statistics Functional Data Analysis: Prediction and Estimation	11:30 am B760 EH
February 22	Jiashun Jin Purdue University Carnegie Mellon University Department of Statistics Innovated Higher Criticism for Detecting Sparse Signals in Correlated Noise	11:30 am B760 EH
March 7	Robert Keener University of Michigan Department of Statistics Hybrid Bootstrap Confidence Regions	11:30 am B760 EH
March 13	Moulinath Banerjee University of Michigan Department of Statistics and Biostatistics Joint with Biostatistics Asymptotics of Interval Censored Data Under Various Observation Time Schemes	3:30 pm Aud II, SPH II
March 14	Gareth James University of Southern California Information and Operations Management Department Variable Inclusion and Shrinkage Algorithms	11:30 am B760 EH
March 21	Regina Dolgoarshinnykh Columbia University Department of Statistics Criticality in Final Outcome of SIS Epidemic Models	11:30 am B760 EH
March 28	Ejaz Ahmed University of Michigan Department of Statistics University of Windsor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Shrinkage versus LASSO/LARS	11:30 am B760 EH
March 28	Kevin Ross Stanford University Department of Statistics *Probability Seminar joint with AIM Seminar* Optimal Stopping and Free Boundary Characterizations for Some Brownian Control Problems	3:10 pm in 1084 EH
April 4	Alex Korostelev Wayne State University Department of Mathematics Detection of Changes from Multi-Channel Observations	11:30 am B760 EH
April 11	Boris Rozovsky Brown University Department of Applied Mathematics A Filtering Approach to Tracking Volatility from Prices Observed at Random Times	11:30 am B760 EH

Past Seminars