Fall 2008 Thursday, September 11 Ken Guthrie, SOA Managing Director - Education Stuart Klugman, FSA, PhD, Principal Financial Group Professor of Actuarial Science at Drake University Martha Sikaras, SOA Director of International Activities "SOA Education System" Presentation 1:45 Dessert reception in 241B Schaeffer Hall 2:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Friday, September 12 Murali Haran, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Statistics Penn StateUniversity "Inferring Likelihoods and Climate System Characteristics from Climate Models and Spatio-temporal Tracer Data " 3:30-4:25 p.m. Location: HP Smith Conference Room, W256 General Hospital Thursday, September 18 Dan Nettleton, Ph.D. Laurence H. Baker Endowed Chair in Biological Statistics Department of Statistics Iowa State University "Identifying Differentially Expressed Gene Categories via a Hidden Markov Model Approach for Testing Nodes on a Directed Acyclic Graph". 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, September 25 Zhengjun Zhang, Ph.D. Department of Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison "Quotient Correlation: A New Light of Measuring Variable Associations and Testing Hypotheses of Independence and Tail Independence". 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, October 2 Matt Bognar, Ph.D. Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "On Bayesian Inference for Discretely Sampled Diffusion Processes " 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, October 9 Yuhong Yang, Ph.D. School of Statistics University of Minnesota "Consistency and Optimal Estimation with Model Selection/combination" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, October 16 Xihong Lin, Ph.D. Professor Department of Biostatistics School of Public Health Harvard University "Statistical Issues and Challenges in Analyzing High-Throughput "Omics" Data in Population-Based Studies" Co-sponsored talk with Biostatistics Department Location: HP Smith Conference Room, W256 General Hospital Time: 3:30-4:25 p.m. Thursday, October 23 Margie Nemeth, Ph.D. Associate Fellow and Team Leader Statistics Technology Center Monsanto "Statistical Careers in Industry" 12:30 Talk, 302 Schaeffer Hall 1:30 Lunch, 302 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, October 30 Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski, Ph.D. Actuarial Program Director Mathematics Department Illinois State University "Demand Uncertainty Reduces Market Power and Enhances Welfare " 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, November 6 Hai Liu Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "Constrained Generalized Additive Models for Zero-Inflated Data" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall Thursday, November 13 Song Xi Chen, Ph.D. Department of Statistics Iowa State University "Empirical Likelihood  ANOVA for longitudinal studies with missing data" 3:00 Refreshments in 241B Schaeffer Hall 3:30 Talk in 140 Schaeffer Hall

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