Neyman Seminar

Statistics 278B Fall 2006

This semester the seminar will focus on statistical computing.

Dates and Speakers

Aug 30	No Seminar
Sep 6	Jasjeet S. Sekhon, Professor, Survey Research Center, UCB Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A General Multivariate Matching Method for Achieving Balance in Observational Studies.     [abstract]
Sep 13	Michael Wehner, Scientific Computing Group, LBL Global warming and extreme weather     [abstract]
Sep 20	Raquel Romano, Postdoc, Visualization Group, LBL Supernova Recognition using Support Vector Machines [abstract]
Sep 27	Statistical Computing Facility, UCB Open Forum: Current and Future Directions     [abstract]
Oct 4	Bertram Ludaescher, Professor, Dept of Computer Science, UC Davis Scientific Workflows: Towards a New Synthesis for Information Integration     [abstract]
Oct 11	Fyodor D. Urnov, PhD Team Leader, Advanced Genomics, Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. Human Genome Editing in Living Cells -- the Challenge of a Text 3.3 Billion Letters Long
Oct 18	Lee Wilkinson, Senior VP, SPSS Inc, and Professor, Northwestern University Scagnostics     [abstract]
Oct 25	Marti Hearst, Professor, School of Information, UCB Unambiguous + Unlimited = Unsupervised     [abstract]
Nov 1	Minos Garofalakis, Senior Research Scientist, Intel Research Berkeley Sketching Techniques for Tracking Distributed Data Streams     [abstract]
Nov 8	Emery Brown, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Professor of Computational Neuroscience, MIT; Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School Application of the State-Space Model Paradigm to Neuroscience Data Analysis     [abstract]
Nov 15
Nov 22	John Chambers, Bell Labs Fellow, Bell Labs, Lucent Evolution of S (including R)     [abstract]
Nov 29	John Chambers, Bell Labs Fellow, Bell Labs, Lucent Seeking Principles for Statistical Software     [abstract]
Dec 6	Duncan Temple Lang, Professor, Dept of Statistics, UCD Evolving Statistical Computing Systems for the Next Decade     [abstract]