Statistics 278b - Neyman Seminar - Fall 2003
Generally Wednesdays 16:00-17:00 in 1011 Evans.
Coffee and Cake beforehand in 1011 Evans
For many years Jerzy Neyman held a Seminar covering a wide range of topics, pure and applied, from probability, statistics and substantive fields.
This seminar continues that tradition.
The speakers have been asked to direct their presentation at the level of second year graduate students.
Speakers and dates
August 27: Mark Hansen, Department of Statistics, University of California, LA- "Listening Post"
Abstract
September 10: Tony Bell, Redwood Neuroscience Institute, Menlo Park, CA (tbell@rni.org)- "A Theory of Probabilistic Representation In Spiking Networks" Abstract
September 17: Jean-Francois Cardoso, `Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST)- "Looking for Independent Components In Signals and Images" Abstract
September 24: Samuel Kou, Department of Statistics, Harvard University- "Bayesian Analysis of Single Molecule Experimental Data" Abstract
October 1: Zhiyi Chi, Statistics Department, Univ. of Chicago- "Filtering for Point Processes and Its Applications" Abstract
October 8: Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research- "The Matrix Revisited: Spatial Interpolation and Smoothing of Large Data Sets" Abstract
October 15: Peter Hall, Australian National University- "Signal Analysis Using Nonuniform Sampling Rates" Abstract
October 22: Joe Hellerstein, Department of Computer Science, UCB- "Querying Sensor Networks" Abstract
October 29: Alex Bajamonde, GeneTech- TBA
November 5: Michael Gaspar, Department of Computer Science, UCB- "Information Theory and Neural Communication, Revisited" Abstract
November 12: Imola K. Fodor, Lawrence Liverman National Laboratory- "Using Independent Component Analysis to Separate Signals in Climate Data" Abstract
November 19: Amy Braverman, Earth and Space Sciences Division- Jet Propulsion Laboratory,California Institute of Technology- "Reducing Size and Complexity of Very Large Geophysical Data Sets" Abstract
November 26: TBA
December 3: Feng Zhao, PARC Research- TBA
December 10: TBA