Statistics 278b - Neyman Seminar Spring 2004 Prof. Terry Speed

Jan 22	Lisa Goldberg, Vice President, Credit Research Barra, Inc. Beyond Value at Risk [abstract]
Jan 29	Canceled; note the special seminar on Monday by Bodhisattava Sen
Feb 05	Canceled; note the special seminar on Monday by Lie Wang
Feb 12	Elchanan Mossel, University of California at Berkeley Some recent progress in combinatorial statistics [abstract]
Feb 19	Stochastic Colloquium
Feb 26	Michael Rosenblum, University of California at Berkeley Using Regression Models to Analyze Randomized Trials: Asymptotically Valid Hypothesis Tests Despite Incorrectly Specified Models [abstract]
Mar 04	Peter Grunwald, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science The Catch-Up Phenomenon in Bayesian Inference [abstract]
Mar 11	Ming Yuan, Georgia Institute of Technology Model Selection and Estimation with Multiple Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces [abstract]
Mar 18	Jeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Statistical work in nano-material research [abstract] Talk slides [1] [2] **Special Seminar* – joint with Nanoscale Science & Engineering Graduate Group Note that the seminar will be held at 60 Evans. Snacks and Coffee will be served beforehand at 363 Evans (Lunch room).
Mar 25	* Spring Break *
Apr 01	Cancelled
Apr 08	Shuying Sun, Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University Preprocessing and analyzing Agilent 244K CpG island methylation microarray data [abstract]
Apr 15	Stochastic Colloquium
Apr 22	Zhijin Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University Improving the Detection of Gene Expression DNA Microarrays [abstract]
Apr 29	Wenyi Wang, Stanford University & UC Berkeley Statistical Methods for DNA Resequencing Arrays [abstract]
May 06	Ethan Anderes, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley Two Topics in Spatial Statistics: Estimating Cloud Height from Multi-angle Satellite Imagery and Deformed Random Fields [abstract]
May 13	Cancelled; note the special seminar at Stanford on May 13 in honor of Professor Brad Efron's 70th birthday.