Colloquia - Fall 2000

Thursday, September 7
Moment estimation for statistics from marked point processes
Michael Sherman, Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

Thursday, September 14
Seemingly a potpouri: difference equations, Fibonacci numbers, the Golden Ratio, flowers, and the Elliott wave principle
Robert V. Hogg, Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa

Thursday, September 28
Adaptive Statistical Methods
Tom O'Gorman, Associate Professor
Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University

Thursday, October 5
Stochastic Analysis and Simulation of Contaminant Plumes in Heterogeneous Porous Media
You-Kuan Zhang, Associate Professor
Department of Geology, University of Iowa

Tuesday, October 10 - CRAIG LECTURE #1
Trees R Us: From Kronecker and Esscher to Black and Scholes
Hans U. Gerber, Professor
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Thursday, October 12 - CRAIG LECTURE #2
Pricing Perpetual Options for Jump Processes: From Risk Theory to Finance
Hans U. Gerber, Professor
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Thursday, October 19
Conjugate Priors for Generalized Linear Models
Ming-Hui Chen, Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Thursday, November 2 - IDA BEAM LECTURE #1
Using Mixture Models to Assess Indirect Scientific Evidence
Bruce Lindsay, Professor
Department of Statistics, Penn State University

Friday, November 3 - IDA BEAM LECTURE #2
Statistical Distances as Tools in Scientific Work
Bruce Lindsay, Professor
Department of Statistics, Penn State University

Thursday, November 9
The Grammar of Graphics: Designing a System for Displaying Statistical Graphics on the Web
Leland Wilkinson
Senior Vice President, SPSS, and Adjunct Professor of Statistics, Northwestern University

Thursday, November 16
Stability of Nonlinear Time Series: What Does Noise Have to Do with It?
Daren Cline, Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

Thursday, November 30
National Advanced Driving Simulator: An Overview
Lea-Der Chen, Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Iowa

Thursday, December 7
Opportunities in the Statistical Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory
C. Shane Reese, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico