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Seminars

Statistics Department seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. on Fridays unless otherwise noted with an asterisk.
Refreshments will be served 30 minutes prior to each seminar in the Department of Statistics lounge, 450 West Hall.

Date	Speaker	Time/Location
January 10, 2012*	Harry Crane University of Chicago, Department of Statistics The Cut-and-Paste Process	4:00 pm 340 WH
January 13, 2012	Garvesh Raskutti University of California, Berkeley, Department of Statistics Statistical Inference for Non-Parametric Models in High Dimensions: Computational and Statistical Aspects	11:30 am B760 EH
January 17, 2012*	Lauren Hannah Duke University, Department of Statistics Multivariate Convex Regression	4:00 pm 340 WH
January 20, 2012	Sergio Bacallado Stanford University, Department of Structural Biology Bayesian Analysis of Reversible Markov Chains With Applications to Molecular Dynamics	11:30 am B760 EH
January 24, 2012*	Ambuj Tewari University of Texas, Austin, Department of Computer Science From Probabilistic to Game Theoretic foundations for Learning and Prediction	4:00 pm 340 WH
January 27, 2012	Rahul Mazumder Stanford University, Department of Statistics Convex Regularization Algorithms for Learning Large Incomplete Matrices	11:30 am B760 EH
January 31, 2012*	Sebastien Roch UCLA, Department of Mathematics Probabilistic Techniques in Mathematical Phylogenetics	4:00 pm 340 WH
February 10, 2012	Stephen Stigler University of Chicago, Department of Statistics The Most Important Lecture in the History of Statistics	11:30 am B760 EH
February 17, 2012	Ming Yuan Georgia Tech, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Adaptive Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
February 24, 2012	Fang Yao University of Toronto, Department of Statistics Semiparametric Functional Linear Model with High-Dimensional Covariates Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
March 6, 2012*	Sastry G. Pantula SPECIAL PRESENTATION JOINT WITH DEPARTMENTS OF BIOSTATISTICS AND MATHEMATICS Director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) National Science Foundation Opportunities in Mathematical and Statisticsal Sciences Background Information	3:00 pm 340 WH
March 9, 2012	Andrew Barron Yale University, Department of Statistics Communication by Regression Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
March 16, 2012	Fred Feinberg University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business The Concomitants of Order Statistics and Optimal Statistical Decision Theory Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
March 20, 2012**	Russell Greiner *Computer Science and Engineering Department co-sponsored by Department of Statistics* University of Alberta, Edmonton, Artificial Intelligence Group An Alternative Approach to Designing Clinical Trials: Budgeted Learning of Effective Classifiers	4-6 pm AI Lab 3725 Computer Science Engineering Building
March 23, 2012	Mariel Lavieri University of Michigan, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering Dynamic Forecasting and Control Algorithms with Application to Glaucoma Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
March 30, 2012	Richard Samworth Cambridge University, Statistical Laboratory Variable Selection with Error Control: Another Look at Stability Selection Background Information	11:30 am B760 EH
April 6, 2012**	MSSISS Andrew Gelman Columbia University, Department of Statistics Registration Open Of Beauty, Sex, and Power Statistical Challenges in Estimating Small Effects	8:30-5 pm School of Public Health
April 13, 2012	*Michael Woodroofe Lecture Series* Peter Buhlmann ETH Zurich, Department of Statistics Predicting Causal Effects in High-Dimensional Settings Background Information	11:30 am 411 WH Refreshments to follow in 450 WH

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