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.

Dates and Speakers

• Jan 28
  Karim Chine, Cloud Era Ltd, Cambridge U.K. Scientific and statistical computing in the cloud, towards a federative and collaborative R-based platform. [abstract]
• Feb 4
  Ping Ma, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A Journey to the Center of the Earth. [abstract]
• Feb 11
  Francesca Chiaromonte, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and and Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics at The Pennsylvania State University. Strategies to analyze high dimensional and under-sampled genomics data. [abstract]
• Feb 18
  Victoria Stodden, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. The Reproducible Research Standard: Copyright and the Scientific Method. [abstract]
• Feb 25
  Tom Griffiths, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley. Modeling human cognition as statistical inference. [abstract]
• Mar 4
  Jasjeet Sekhon, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley. Matching Methods for Causal Inference and their Limitations: evaluating medical treatments. [abstract]
• Mar 11
  Monica Nicolau, Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University.  Progression analysis of disease. [abstract]
• Mar 18
  Yun Song, Assistant Professor of EECS and Statistics, UC Berkeley. Probability, graphs, and forensic DNA analysis. [abstract]
• Mar 25
  UC Berkeley Spring Break
• Apr 1
  Nayantara Bhatnagar, Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.  The complexity of testing convergence times of Markov chains. [abstract]
• Apr 8
  Kwan Liu Ma, Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis.  Choosing the Right Space for Visualization. [abstract]
• Apr 15
  Victor Panaretos, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Second Order Analysis of DNA Shape. [abstract]
• Apr 22
  Cagla Meral, Graduate Student, Department of Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley. Green concrete  [abstract]
• Apr 29
  Qunhua Li, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley. Measuring the consistency of chip-seq experiments - a top-down approach. [abstract]

Enquiries: Terry Speed

Last updated: Feb 14, 2009