Neyman Seminar Neyman

Statistics 278B Spring 2008

Wednesdays 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm in 1011 Evans.
Coffee and cake from about 3:45 pm in 1011 Evans

Dates and Speakers
Jan 23
Cari Kaufman, Postdoctoral Fellow, SAMSI and NCAR:
"Statistical Methods for Climate Model Output and Other Massive Datasets"
Special Announcement and Abstract
Jan 31
Thu - 4pm
Guang Cheng, Postdoctoral Fellow, SAMSI:
"Higher Order Semiparametric Inference Based on Profile Likelihood"
Special Announcement and Abstract
Feb 6
Dawn Woodward, Duke:
"Convergence of Parallel and Simulated Tempering on Multimodal Distributions"
Special Announcement and Abstract
Feb 13
Marc Suchard, Assistant Professor, UCLA
"From dinosaur diffusion to HIV counting processes: statistical models for mapping continuous and discrete evolutionary innovation" - Special Announcement and Abstract
Feb 20
Salil  Vadhan, Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Hadvard.
"Randomness, Interaction, and Zero-Knowledge Proofs"
Abstract
Feb 27
Joseph Gastwirth, Professor of Statistics and Economics, George Washington University
"Some Statistical Issues Arising in Two Legal Cases"
Abstract
Mar 5
Michael Mahoney, Yahoo Research
"Statistical leverage, spectral regularization, and large data set applications"
Abstract
Mar 12
Sachar Kariv, Assistant Professor, Economics, Berkeley
"Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under Uncertainty"
Abstract
Mar 19
Serban Nacu, Postdoctoral fellow, Genentech
"Sequencing the transcriptome"
Abstract
Mar 26
SPRING BREAK
Apr 2
Raanan Fattal, Miller Fellow, Berkeley
"Single Image Dehazing Using Decorrelation"
Abstract
Apr 9
Erick Matsen, Miller Fellow, Berkeley.
"The geometry of model-based phylogenetics"
Abstract
Apr 16
Sebastien Roch, Postdoctoral fellow, Microsoft Research
" Large-scale phylogeny reconstruction: Are distance methods as accurate
as maximum likelihood?"
Apr 23
Mike Steel, Director, Bioinformatics Research Center, Canterbury.
"The joys of being mean: tricks for (evolutionary) trees"
Abstract
Apr 30
No Seminar
May 7
Enrico Moretti, Professor of Economics, Berkeley
" Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap"
Link To Paper