Recent Seminar Abstracts
Statistics / Biostatistics 290
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Fall 2006
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Spring 2009
| Spring 2009 | Organizer: Alexander Aue | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 2-Apr-09 | Bryan C. Weare | Land, Air & Water Resources, UC Davis | Structure of stratospheric wave responses to ENSO convection |
| 9-Apr-09 | Piotr Kokoszka | Utah State U | Weakly Dependent Functional Data |
| 15-Apr-09 (*Wed) | Jiashun Jin | Carnegie Mellon | Higher Criticism Thresholding: Optimal Feature Selectiion when Useful Featurs are Rare and Weak |
| 16-Apr-09 | Ping Ma | U Illinois Urbana-Champaign (visiting UC Berkeley) | A Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| 23-Apr-09 | Bruno Pelletier | U Montpellier II (visiting UC San Diego) | Clustering with level sets |
| 28-Apr-09 (*Tue) | Siddhartha Chib | Washington U St. Louis | Additive Cubic Spline Regression with Dirichlet Process Mixture Errors |
| 7-May-09 (*MSB 1143) | Richard Davis | Columbia U | Allpass processes with applications to finance |
| 12-May-09 (*Tue) | Winfried Stute | Giesen U (Germany) | Statistical inference for self-exciting point processes |
| 14-May-09 | Guido Kuersteiner | Economics, UC Davis | Bandwidth Choice for Bias Estimators in Dynamic Nonlinear Panel Models |
| 21-May-09 | Lloyd Knox | Physics, UC Davis | Statistical Chanllenges of Modern Cosmology |
| 28-May-09 | Xiaofeng Shao | U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Portmanteau Tests in Time Series |
| 4-Jun-09 | David Stoffer | NSF / U Pittsburgh | Spectral Magic |
Winter 2009
| Winter 2009 | Organizer: Rudy Beran | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 8-Jan-09 | Rudy Beran | Statistics, UC Davis | On fitting Multivariate Responses to Covariates |
| 15-Jan-09 | Xuanlong Nguyen | Statistical Science, Duke University | Nonparametric and distributed decision-making models with applications to functional and spatial data analysis |
| 22-Jan-09 | Michael Wu | Harvard School of Public Health | Regularization and variable selection in predictive modeling using omics data |
| 29-Jan-09 | Thomas Lee | Chinese U Hong Kong / Colorado State U | Tracking of Multiple Merging and Splitting Targets with Application to Turbulence Structures and Convective Storms |
| 5-Feb-09 | Karim Chine | UC Berkeley (visiting from Cloud Era Ltd, Cambridge UK) | Statistical computing in the cloud: towards a federative and collaborative platform |
| 12-Feb-09 | David Mason | Estimators of Integral Functionals of the Density Function | |
| 19-Feb-09 | Guenther Walther | Stanford | Inference and Modeling with Log-Concave Distributions |
| 26-Feb-09 | Rui Castro | Active Learning and Inference: Sampling and Sensing Using Feedback | |
| 3-Mar-09 | Peter J. Bickel | UC Berkeley (Berkeley-Davis Colloquium) | Banded approximation to inverses of bandedly approximable matrices and operators with applications to covariance matrix estimation and strong mixing of Gaussian processes |
| 12-Mar-09 | Fushing Hsieh | Statistics, UC Davis | Exploring stock dynamics via computed volatility-phases |
Fall 2008
| Fall 2008 | Organizer: Hans-Georg Mueller | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 24-Sep-08 | Lajos Horváth | University of Utah | Break Detection in the Covariance Structure of Multivariate Time Series Models |
| 25-Sep-08 | Ming Yuan | Georgia Insititue of Technology | Sparse Regularization with Multiple Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces |
| 2-Oct-08 | Meng Mao & Jane-Ling Wang | Statistics, UC Davis | Death and Success on Mount Everest: Is there a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar effect? |
| 9-Oct-08 | Randall Eubank | Arizona State U | Canonical Correlation and Prediction for Stochastic Processes |
| 16-Oct-08 | Fang Yao | Univ of Toronto | Functional Mixture Regression |
| 23-Oct-08 | Chin-Shang Li | Public Health Sci, UC Davis | Testing for Linearity of the Nonparametric Component of a Partially Linear Model |
| 30-Oct-08 | Alexander Aue | Statistics, UC Davis | Topics in autoregressive time series with random coefficients |
| 6-Nov-08 | Somnath Datta | Univ of Louisville | Nonparametric inference for state occupation, entry and waiting time distributions in multistate models under current status data |
| 13-Nov-08 | Jim Veitch | Affymetrix | Discovering Variation in the Human Genome using Affymetrix Microarrays |
| 20-Nov-08 | Daniel Gervini | Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Robust Functional Data Analysis |
Summer 2008
| Summer 2008 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 7/22/2008 | John Aston | Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Runs, Patterns and Change-points: An HMM Perspective |
| 9/11/2008 | Jacek Leskow | National Louis University, Nowy Sacz, Poland | Resampling for Nonstationary Stochastic Models |
Spring 2008
| Spring 2008 | Organizer: Jiming Jiang | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 4/3/2008 | Ulrich Stadtmueller | Univ. Ulm, Germany | On Some Deconvolution Problems |
| 4/10/2008 | Samuel Schmidt | Physics, UC Davis | An introduction to photometric redshifts |
| 4/17/2008 | Qiwei Yao | London School of Economics, UK | Modelling High Dimensional Daily Volatilities Based on High-Frequency Data |
| 4/24/2008 | Bo Lindqvist | Norwegian Univ of Science & Technology, Norway | Monte Carlo Conditioning on a sufficent statistic |
| 5/1/2008 | Michael Rosenblum | UC Berkeley | Using Regression Models to Analyze Randomized Trials: Asymptotically Valid Hypothesis Tests Despite Incorrectly Specified Models |
| 5/8/2008 | Annie Qu | Oregon State Univ | Consistent Model Selection and Data-driven Smooth Tests for Longitudinal Data in the Estimating Equations Approach |
| 5/15/2008 | James Ramsay | McGill Univ, Canada | ModelingChange: Incorporating Dynamic Components into Data Analysis |
| 5/22/2008 | Debashis Paul | Statistics, UC Davis | Principal Components analysis for correlated functional and high dimensional data |
| 5/29/2008 | Jie Peng | Statistics, UC Davis | Partial Correlation Estimation by Joint Sparse Regression Models |
| 6/5/2008 | Haiyan Huang | UC Berkeley | Statistical Methods for inferring gene expression similarities |
Winter 2008
| Winter 2008 | Organizer: Rituparna Sen | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 1/8/2008 | Bo Li | UCAR | Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions and its Application in Paleoclimate Reconstruction |
| 1/10/2008 | Per Mykland | Statistics, Univ Chicago | Inference for Continuous Semimartingales Observed at High Frequency: A General Approach |
| 1/15/2008 | David Mason | Univ. Delaware | Risk Bounds for Kernel Density Estimators |
| 1/17/2008 | Jean Opsomer | Statistics, Colorado State Univ | Endogenous Post-stratification in Surveys |
| 1/18/2008 | Faming Liang | Texas A&M | Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo and Its Applications |
| 1/24/2008 | Ingeleif Hallgrímsdóttir | The Statistics of Interaction in Genetics | |
| 1/24/2008 | Ben Morris | Mathematics, UC Davis | Improved Mixing Time Bounds for the L-Reversal Chain and Thorp Shuffle |
| 1/29/2008 | Ethan Anderes | UC Berkeley | Two Topics in Spatial Statistics: Estimating Cloud Height from Multi-Angle Satellite Imagery and Deformed Random Fields |
| 1/30/2008 | Bo Sen | Statistics, U. Michigan | Bootstrap in some Non-standard Problems |
| 1/31/2008 | Marc Coram | Dept Health Research & Policy, Stanford Univ | Allele Frequency Estimation by Borrowing Strength across Populations |
| 2/4/2008 | Richard Umstaetter | NASA, Jet Propulsion Lab | Bayesian strategies for gravitational radiation data analysis |
| 2/7/2008 | Cari Kaufman | SAMSI & National Center for Atmospheric Research | Models for Models: Statistical Methods for Climate Model Output and Other Massive Datasets |
| 2/14/2008 | Xiao Wang | Univ. Maryland | Nonparametric Estimation of Dark Matter Distributions |
| 2/21/2008 | Jonathan Hill | Economics, Univ North Carolina | Tail Trimmed Sums for Dependent, Heterogeneous Data, with Applications to Robust GMM |
| 2/28/2008 | Aaron Smith | Agriculture & Resource Economics, UC Davis | Markov Breaks in Regression Models |
Fall 2007
| Fall 2007 | Organizer: Fushing Hsieh | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 9/27/2007 | Jane-Ling Wang | Statistics, UC Davis | Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data |
| 10/4/2007 | Arne Bang Huseby | Univ. Oslo, Norway | Signed Domination of Oriented Matroid System |
| 10/11/2007 | Ji Meng Loh | Columbia U | Bootstrapping spatial data |
| 10/18/2007 | Carrie Grimes | Statistical Problems at Google: Estimation of Web Page Change Rates | |
| 10/25/2007 | Eric Chi | Amgen | Drug Development and Some Statistical Applications in the Biopharmaceutical Industry |
| 11/1/2007 | Kevin J. Grimm | Psychology, UC Davis | Multitrait-Multimethod Models for Developmental Research |
| 11/8/2007 | Chuck McCulloch | Biostatistics, UCSF | Prediction of Random Effects and Effects of Misspecification of their Distribution |
| 11/16/2007 | Kaare Christensen | Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense DK | Why do we age so differently? The Danish Twin and Oldest-Old Studies |
| 11/29/2007 | Ching-Shui Cheng | UC Berkeley | Construction of minimum aberration designs |
| 12/11/2007 | Chi-Hse Teng | Pfizer St Louis and La Jolla Lab | A Real Story of Searching for Hopes - An Overview of a Genomics Project for Searching Biological Targets |
Summer 2007
| Summer 2007 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 6/19/2007 | Yichao Wu | Princeton University | Semiparametric estimation of covariance matrices for longitudinal data |
| 6/22/2007 | Damla Senturk | Pennsylvania State U | Conditional Correlation for Covariate Adjustment |
Spring 2007
| Spring 2007 | organizer: Debashis Paul | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 3/29/2007 | Anandamayee Majumdar | Arizona State U, Phoenix | Gradients in Spatial Reponse Surfaces, with an Application to Urban Land Values |
| 4/5/2007 | Danielle Harvey | Biostatistics / Public Health, UC Davis | Biologically Driven Data Reduction of High Dimensional Spatially Correlated Data |
| 4/12/2007 | Makram Talih | City Univ. of New York, Hunter College | Geodesic Markov Chains on Covariance Matrices |
| 4/17/2007 | Helen Massam | York Univ, Toronto | Flexible Covariance Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models |
| Bala Rajaratnam | SAMSI | ||
| 4/19/2007 | Lihong Qi | Biostatistics / Public Health, UC Davis | Statistical Methods for Proportional Hazards Regression with Missing Covariates |
| 4/26/2007 | Alan Hubbard | UC Berkeley | Variable Importance measures inspired from causal inference in microarray studies of aging |
| 5/3/2007 | Guenther Walther | Stanford University | Scan Statistics for Quantitating Differences in Distributions |
| 5/10/2007 | Terry Speed | UC Berkeley | High-Density Short Oligonucleotide Microarrays: A low-Level viewpoint |
| 5/17/2007 | Peter Hall | Statistics, UC Davis | Bootstrap aggregation for cross-validation and inference under constraints |
| 5/23/2007 | Ken Newman | Fish & Wildlife Services, UC Davis | Bayesian hierachical models for multi-year ecological studies |
| 5/31/2007 | Joel Dubin | Univ. Waterloo, Ontario | Longitudinal modeling of a response and time-dependent covariate measured at different time points |
Winter 2007
| Winter 2007 | organizer: Katherine Pollard | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 1/4/2007 | Charles Langley | Evolution & Ecology / Pop. Biology, UC Davis | Estimates and Inferences for Drospophila Population Genomics |
| 1/9/2007 | David M. Mason | Statistics, U. Delaware | Local U-Statistics Processes: Methods and Applications |
| 1/11/2007 | Patrice Koehl | Computer Sci / Genome Center, UC Davis | Protein Structure and Protein Sequence Spaces |
| 1/18/2007 | Bruce Rannala | Evolution & Ecology / Genome Center, UC Davis | Inferring Somatic Mutation Rates Using the stop-EGFP Mouse |
| 1/25/2007 | Yunming Mu | Statistics, Texas A&M U. | Power Transformation Techniques in Quantile Regression |
| 2/1/2007 | Mark R. Segal | Biostatistics UCSF | Chess, Chance and Conspiracy |
| 2/6/2007 | Chunming Zhang | Statistics, U. Wisconsin, Madison | Semiparametric Detection of Significant Activation for Brain fMRI |
| 2/7/2007 | Debashis Mondal | Univ. Washington | Wavelet Variance Analysis for Time Series and Random Fields |
| 2/8/2007 | Jane Fridlyand | Biostatistics / Cancer Center Bioinformatics, UCSF | Analysis and Integration of Array CGH Data: methods and applications |
| 2/12/2007 | Crystal Linkletter | Latent Socio-Spatial Process Model for Social Networks | |
| 2/15/2007 | Guodong Li | Univ. Hong Kong | Testing for threshold moving average with conditional heteroscedasticity |
| 2/20/2007 | Yingying Fan | High Dimensional Classification Using Features Annealed Independence Rules | |
| 2/22/2007 | Alexander Aue | Clemson University | Distinguishing between random walks and changes in the mean |
| 2/27/2007 | Subharup Guha | Bayesian Hidden Markov Modeling of Array-CGH Data | |
| 3/1/2007 | Romain Neugebauer | UC Berkeley School of Public Health | Causal inference in air pollution epidemiology -- Overcoming violation of the experimental treatment assignment assumption |
Fall 2006
| Fall 2006 | organizer: Jie Peng | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 9/28/2006 | Sergey Nuzhdin | Evolution & Ecology, UC Davis | Transcriptome Variance Decomposition |
| 10/5/2006 | Souray Chatterjee | Statistics, UC Berkeley | Normal Approximation: a new insight and a simple method |
| 10/12/2006 | Wolfgang Jank | Univ. Maryland | Modeling Concurrency of Events in Online Auctions via Spatio-Temporal Semiparametric Models |
| 10/19/2006 | Katherine Pollard | Statistics / Genome Center, UC Davis | What Made Us Human? |
| 10/26/2006 | Ethan Anderes | Statistics, UC Berkeley | Estimating Deformations of Gaussian Random Fields |
| 11/2/2006 | Jeng-Min Chiou | Inst. Statistical Science, Academia Sinica | Functional Clustering of longitudinal data |
| 11/9/2007 | Pei Wang | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | A Statistical Method for Alignment of Liquid-Chromatography Mass-Spectometry (LC-MS) data |
| 11/16/2006 | Raissa D'Souza | Comp Science & Engineering, UC Davis | Growth and Function of Networks |
| 11/30/2006 | David Wittman | Physics, UC Davis | Large Optical Astronomy Serveys |
| 12/7/2006 | Nourredine El Karoui | Statistics, UC Berkeley | Random Matrix Theory and Multivariate Statistics |
Spring 2006
| Spring 2006 | organizer: Wolfgang Polonik | ||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 3/30/2006 | Emilio Ferrer | Psychology, UC Davis | A Linear Model of Difference Scores for Studying Developmental Dynamics |
| 4/6/2006 | Katherine Pollard | Statistics, UC Davis | Multiple hypothesis testing for high dimensional biological data |
| 4/13/2006 | Norm Matloff | Computer Science, UC Davis | How One Can Estimate Web-Access Rates with (Almost) No Data |
| 4/20/2006 | Myles Hollander | Florida State Univ. | Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Repair Models |
| 4/24/2006 | Moshe Shaked | Mathematics, U. Arizona | Stochastic Ordering of Minima |
| 4/27/2006 | Richard Davis | Statistics, Colorado State U. | Structural Break Detection in Time Series Models |
| 5/4/2006 | Inigo Steinwart | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Surrogate Loss functions for Finding Density Level Sets |
| 5/11/2006 | Debashis Paul | Statistics, UC Davis | Principal Component Analysis for Structured High Dimensional Data |
| 5/18/2006 | Oscar Jorda | Economics, UC Davis | Projection Minimum Distance: an Estimator for Mutivariate Dynamic Systems |
| 5/25/2006 | Philip B. Stark | UC Berkeley | Shaking Down Earthquake Predictions |
| 6/1/2006 | Nicolai Meinshausen | ETH Zürich, Switzerland, UC Berkeley | The Search for Small Objects in the Outer Solar System. How Many Are There? |
Winter 2006
| Winter 2006 | |||
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 3/2/2006 | Alexandre Tsybakov | Univ. of Paris VI | Learning by Mirror Averaging |
| 3/9/2006 | Lutz Duembgen | Univ. Bern, Switzerland | Log-Concavity and Density Estimation |
