Departmental Colloquia - Fall 2005


Thursday, September 1
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Jian Huang
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Analysis of Censored Survival Data with High-Dimensional Covariates"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, September 8
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Noelle Samia, PhD Student
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"A Generalized Threshold Regression Model for Analyzing Non-Normal Nonlinear Time Series: Plague in Kazakhstan as an Illustration"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, September 15
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
John Geweke
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Department of Economics
University of Iowa
"Smoothly Mixing Regressions"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Monday, September 19
9:30am
3315 Seamans Center
Lim Tiong Wee
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
National University of Singapore
"Optimal Early Withdrawal and Valuation of Finite Horizon Fund Protection"

(no refreshments)

Thursday, September 22
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Shuangge Ma
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington-Seattle
"ROC Method for Disease Classification Using Multiple Markers"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Wednesday, October 5
3:30pm
S207 PBB
Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Department of Economics
Princeton University
"Ultra High Frequency Volatility Estimation and Dependent Microstructure Noise"

Joint Seminar with Department of Economics, Department of Finance, and Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

Thursday, October 13
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Keith Worsley
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McGill University
"Correlation Random Fields, Brain Connectivity, and Astrophysics"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, October 20
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Robert V. Hogg
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"(Good?) Advice for Young Statisticians"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, October 27
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Jed Frees
School of Business
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Long-Tail Longitudinal and Panel Data"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, November 3
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
N.D. Shyamalkumar
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"A Tale of Two Strategies"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Tuesday, November 8
3:30pm
3505 Seamans Center
Jim Booth
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
Cornell University
"Clustering Using Objective Functions and Stochastic Search"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, November 10
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Hyonggin An
Department of Biostatistics
University of Iowa
"Bayesian Analysis of Repeated Zero-Inflated Count Data"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, November 17 -- CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
Nils Chr. Stenseth
Department of Biology
University of Oslo
"The Hare-Lynx Population Cycle as Seen Through the 'Eyes' of the Canadian Lynx"

Tuesday, November 29
4:00pm
2229 Seamans Center
Andrew Norris, M.D.
Pediatric Endocrinolgy
Children's Hospital of Iowa
The University of Iowa
"Detecting Foreshocks: Genomic Level Approaches to the Identification of Modest Transcriptional Events in Common Disease"

Joint Seminar with the Department of Biostatistics (College of Public Health), the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences), and the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (College of Engineering)

Refreshments at 3:45pm in 2229 Seamans Center.

Thursday, December 1
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Thomas R. Belin
Department of Biostatistics
UCLA
"Strategies for Model-Based Imputation in High-Dimensional Incomplete Data Sets"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, December 8
3:30pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Beth Hansen, PhD Student
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Penalized Likelihood Estimation of a Fixed-Effect and a Mixed-Effect Transfer Function Model"

Refreshments at 3:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.