Spring 2008 Thursday, January 24 Jackie Hughes-Oliver Department of Statistics North Carolina State University "ChemModLab: QSAR Modeling and Model-Based Searching" 3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, January 31 Xiaowen Zhou Department of Mathematics and Statistics Concordia University "Spectrally Negative Levy Processes and Risk Models" 3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, February 7 Guang Cheng Postdoctoral Fellow SAMSI "Higher Order Semiparametric Inference Based on the Profile Likelihood" 3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, February 14 Bo Li Post Graduate Scientist National Center for Atmospheric Research "Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions and its Application in Paleoclimate Reconstruction" 3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Tuesday, February 19 Dawn Woodard Department of Statistical Science Duke University "Bayesian Computation for Multimodal Posterior Distributions" 3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 1505 Seamans Center Thursday, February 28 - CANCELLED Bodhisattva Sen PhD Candidate University of Michigan Thursday, March 6 Jerome Pansera Quantitative Analyst Geode Capital Management "Consistent Interest-Rate Modeling" 3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, April 10 Bruce Schobel President, Society of Actuaries "Update on major activities at the Society of Actuaries" 2:45 Refreshments and 3:00 presentation of the Taylor and Knowler Awards in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, April 17 Xiangming Fang Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "Generalized Additive Models with Correlated Data" 3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, April 24 Dai Feng Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "MRI Tissue Classification using High Resolution Bayesian Hidden Markov Normal Mixture Models" 3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, May 1 Russell Lenth Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "StatWeave: Flexible Software for Literate Programming in Statistics" 2:45 Refreshments and 3:00 Presentation of the Craig and Reitz Awards in 241 Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

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