Recent Seminar Abstracts
Statistics / Biostatistics 290
To request a seminar abstract, please contact Pete Scully (pscully wald.ucdavis.edu )
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Spring 2009
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Summer 2008
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Winter 2008
Fall 2007
Summer 2007
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Winter 2007
Fall 2006
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Winter 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
Delaware
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
Columbia
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
Google
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
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