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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

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