Departmental Colloquia - Fall 2007


Thursday, August 30
A. Ronald Gallant
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University
"A Statistical Inquiry into the Plausibility of Recursive Utility"

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

Thursday, September 6
  Robert V. Hogg
CLAS Alumni Fellow
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Small Steps and Giant Leaps"

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

Thursday, September 13
Jia-An Yan
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science
Chinese Academy of Sciences
"Some New Risk Measures and Their Representations in Terms of Choquet Integrals w.r.t. Distorted Probabilities"

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

Thursday, September 20
Philip Dixon
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
"Combining Multiple Sources of Information to Better Estimate the Probability of a Rare Event"

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

Thursday, September 27
Heike Hofmann
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
"Scagnostics for Projection Pursuit"

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

Thursday, October 4
Li-Shan Huang
Department of Biostatistics
University of Rochester
"Incorporating Neighborhood Estimates in Nonparametric and Semiparametric Models"

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

Thursday, October 11 - Craig Lecture #1
Nancy Reid
Department of Statistics
University of Toronto
"Weighting the Likelihood Function"

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

Friday, October 12 - Craig Lecture #2
Nancy Reid
Department of Statistics
University of Toronto
"Putting Asymptotics to Work"

2:30 Craig Cake in 241 Schaeffer Hall
3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, October 25
Max Morris
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
"Composite Response Surface Designs for Factors with Jointly Symmetric Effects"

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

Thursday, November 1
Kwang Woo Ahn
PhD Candidate in Statistics
University of Iowa
"Bayesian Inference with Incomplete Multinomial Data - Assessing the Spatio-Temporal Variation in Pathogen-Variant Diversity"

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

Thursday, November 8
Rodney Strachan
School of Economics
University of Queensland
"Divergent Priors and Well-Behaved Bayes Factors"

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

Thursday, November 15
Gary Russell
Department of Marketing
University of Iowa
"Predicting Product Purchase from Inferred Customer Similarity: An Autologistic Model Approach"

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

Thursday, November 29
John Geweke
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Department of Economics
University of Iowa
"Hierarchical Markov Normal Mixture Models with Applications to Financial Asset Returns"

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

Thursday, December 6
Gideon Zamba
Department of Biostatistics
University of Iowa
"A Bayesian Analytical Tool for ILI control and Detection of Intentional Release"

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