Wednesdays, 4 PM - 5 PM, 1011 Evans Hall

      August 31: Susan Holmes, Professor, Statistics, Stanford. "Evaluating and Combining Trees." [abstract]

      September 7: Ben Shaby, Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistical Science, Duke and Environmental Statistics, SAMSI.
      "A More Practical Max-Stable Process for Spatial Extremes." [abstract]

      September 14: Toby E. Stuart, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard.
      "Matthew: Effect or Fable?" [abstract]

      September 21: Cari Kaufman, Assistant Professor, Statistics, UC Berkeley.
      "Modeling Dependence in Physical Systems Using Gaussian Processes: Applications and Asymptotic Theory." [abstract]

      September 28: Frank Samaniego, Professor, Statistics, UC Davis.
      "Network Reliability: A Fresh Look at Some Basic Questions." [abstract]

      October 5: Mark Segal, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, UCSF.
      "Chess, Chance and Conspiracy." [abstract]

      October 12: Pat Kline, Assistant Professor, Economics, UC Berkeley.
      "Sensitivity to Missing Data Assumptions: Theory and An Evaluation of the U.S. Wage Structure." [abstract]

      October 19: Michael Lustig, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley.
      "Compressed Sensing MRI." [abstract]

      October 26: Venkat Chandrasekaran, Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley.
      "The Convex Geometry of Linear Inverse Problems." [abstract]

      Tuesday November 1: Stanford Berkeley Joint Colloquium at Stanford.
      Stanford Statistics , Cookies at 3:45 PM, Sequoia Hall, 1st Floor Lounge. Seminar at 4:15 PM, Braun Auditorium, Mudd Chemistry, 333 Campus Drive.
      Michael Jordan, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley.
      "Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data." [abstract]

      November 9: Stefano Marchesini, Scientist, Experimental System Group, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
      "Inverse Problems in X-Ray Science." [abstract]

      November 16: Athanasios Kottas, Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UC Santa Cruz.
      "Bayesian Nonparametric Poisson Process Modeling with Applications." [abstract]

      November 23: John Paisley, Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley.
      "Constructing Bayesian Nonparametric Priors." [abstract]

      November 30: Lara Bauman, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Quantitative Modeling and Analysis, Sandia National Laboratories.
      "Genotype-by-Sex Interactions Influence the Regulation of Human Gene Expression." [abstract]

      Tuesday December 6: Neil Risch, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, UCSF.
      "Genetic Epidemiology in a Cohort of 100,000." [abstract]

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