Spring 2009 Thursday, January 15 Amanda Hering, Ph.D. Department of Statistics Texas A & M University "Powering Up with Space-Time Wind Forecasting" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Tuesday, January 20 Aixin Tan, Ph.D. Department of Statistics University of Florida "Practical Central Limit Theorem for Markov chain Monte Carlo Estimators" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 1505 Seaman Center Thursday, January 22 Bret Hanlon, Ph.D. Department of Statistical Science Cornell University "Inference for Quantitation Parameters in Polymerase Chain Reactions via Branching Processes with Random Effects" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, January 29 Xingdong Feng, Ph.D. Department of Statistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Inference on Low-Rank Data Matrices with Applications to Microarray Data" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, February 19 George Woodworth, Ph.D. Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "Age- and Time-Varying Proportional Hazards Models for Employment Discrimination" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Monday, February 23 Bin Nan, Ph.D. Department of Biostatistics School of Public Health, University of Michigan "Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Model with Missing Data" 3:30 Talk in 1117 MERF Thursday, February 26 Xuemiao Hao PhD Candidate Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "On the Impact of Periodic Tax Payments on Asymptotic Ruin Probabilities of the Levy Insurance Model " 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, March 5 Hui Zou, Ph.D. School of Statistics University of Minnesota "Local CQR Smoothing" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, March 12 Cindy Yu, Ph. D. Department of Statistics Iowa State University "Return Dynamics with Levy Jumps: Evidence from Stock and Option Prices" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, March 26 Ruitao Liu, Ph.D. Department of Statistics University of Florida "On Some New Contributions Towards Objective Priors" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, April 2 Alyson Wilson, Ph.D. Department of Statistics Iowa State University "Statistical Challenges from Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, April 9 Karen Kafadar, Ph.D. Department of Statistics Indiana University "Measuring the effect of length biased sampling  in randomized cancer screening trials"(with Philip C. Prorok, National Cancer Institute) 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, April 16 Robert Kohn, Ph.D. Australian School of Business University of New South Wales "Adaptive Sampling for Bayesian Inference " 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Wednesday, April 22 Jostein Paulsen, Ph.D. Department of Mathematics University of Bergen, Norway "Optimal dividend policies for a general class of diffusions with transaction costs and solvency constraints" 2:50 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in C107 PBB Thursday, April 23 Michael McLaughlin, FSA, CERA, MAAA, FIA President-elect, Society of Actuaries "The Future Shape of the Actuarial Profession" 2:45 p.m. Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:00 p.m. Taylor and Knowler Awards will be presented to selected actuarial science students 3:30 p.m. Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall (more information) Thursday, April 30 Craig Lectures George Casella, Ph. D. Department of Statistics University of Florida "Estimation in Dirichlet Random Effects Models" 2:45 p.m. Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:00 p.m. Craig and Rietz Awards will be presented to selected statistics students 3:30 p.m. Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall (more information) Friday, May 1 Craig Lectures George Casella, Ph.D. Department of Statistics University of Florida "From R. A. Fisher to Microarrays:  Why 70 year-old Theory is Relevant Today" 3:00 p.m. Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 p.m. Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall (more information)

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