Departmental Colloquia - Fall 2006


Thursday, August 31
Jacob J. Oleson
Department of Biostatistics
University of Iowa
"Joint Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Low Incidence Cancers Sharing Common Risk Factors"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, September 7
Amy G. Froelich
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
"Materials for and assessment of engaging students in statistical discovery"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, September 14
Qihe Tang
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"On a random difference equation with subexponential innovations"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, September 21
Jun Zhu
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Spatial-temporal modeling of forest gaps generated by colonization from below- and above-ground bark beetle species"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, September 28
Joseph B. Lang
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Improved Confidence Intervals for Contingency Table Parameters"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, October 5
Joshua M. Tebbs
(Iowa alumnus: BS in Statistics, 1995; MS in Statistics, 1997)
Department of Statistics
University of South Carolina
"Disease detection and prevalence estimation through informative group testing"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, October 12
Michael Taksar
Department of Mathematics
University of Missouri-Columbia
"Ruin probability minimization and dividend distribution optimization in diffusion models"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, October 19
Sri Devi Duvvuri
Department of Marketing
University of Iowa
"A Bayesian multi-level factor analytic model of consumer price sensitivities across categories"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, October 26
Richard Dykstra
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Brownian motion boundary crossing probabilities"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, November 2
Joseph E. Cavanaugh
Department of Biostatistics
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Discrepancy-based model selection criteria using cross validation"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, November 9
Petrutza Caragea
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
"Covariates and time in the autologistic model"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, November 16
Andrew Ho
Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
University of Iowa
"Describing Test Score Gains and Gaps: A Nonparametric Alternative to Popular Educational Statistics"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

[Thanksgiving Break, November 20-24]

Thursday, November 30
Stuart Klugman
Department of Actuarial Science
Drake University
"The Actuary as Expert Witness"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, December 7
Kai Wang
(Iowa alumnus: PhD in Statistics, 1999)
Program in Public Health Genetics
University of Iowa
"A statistical test of overdominance and/or underdominance with application to gene expression levels"

3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall