Neyman Seminar
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 |