Department of Statistics - University of Michigan

Department of Statistics
Winter 2009 Seminars

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

Date	Speaker	Location
January 16	Naisyin Wang Department of Statistics Texas A&M University Functional Latent Feature Models for Data with Longitudinal Covariate Processes Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
January 23	Aixin Tan Department of Statistics University of Florida Practical Central Limit Theorem for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimators Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
January 30	Veronica Berrocal Department of Statistical Science Duke University Stochastic Prediction Using Output from Numerical Models Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
February 3*	James Scott Department of Statistical Science Duke University Bayesian Adjustment for Multiplicity in Regression and Functional Testing Background Information	4:00 pm B760 EH
February 6	Pradeep Ravikumar Department of Statistics University of California at Berkeley Sparse Model Estimation: Parametric and Nonparametric Instances Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
February 10*	Arindam Chatterjee Department of Statistics Texas A&M University Bootstrapping Lasso Estimators Background Information	4:00 pm B760 EH
February 13	XuanLong Nguyen Department of Statistical Science Duke University Nonparametric and Distributed Decision Making Methods for Functional and Spatial Data Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
February 17*	Jarad Niemi Department of Statistical Science Duke University Computational Methods for General State-Space Models Background Information	4:00 pm B760 EH
February 19*	Kshitij Khare Department of Statistics Stanford University Inference in Gaussian Covariance Graph Models Background Information	4:00 p m 340 W H
March 6	Yves Atchade Department of Statistics University of Michigan Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
March 13	William Q. Meeker Department of Statistics Center or Nondestructive Evaluation Iowa State University Using Accelerated Life Tests Results to Predict Product Field Reliability Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
March 20	Ben Hansen Department of Statistics University of Michigan Attributing Effects to A Cluster Randomized Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
March 27	Jonathan Evans Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistics University of Michigan Toward a Comprehensive Model of Pitch in Speech Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
April 3	Matias D. Cattaneo Department of Economics University of Michigan Small Bandwidth Asymptotics for Density-Weighted Average Derivatives Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
April 7*	Jie Peng Department of Statistics University of California at Davis please note this is Tuesday at 4:00 pm Semiparametric Modelling of Autonomous Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Applications Background Information	4:00 pm B760 EH
April 10	MSSISS Brad Efron Department of Statistics Stanford University Large-Scale Prediction Problems Background Information	9-4:30 pm Rackham Amphitheatre Rackham Building, 4th Floor
April 17	Sidney Resnick School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University The Conditional Extreme Value Model and Data Network Sessions Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH

Past Seminars