Colloquia - Spring 2000



Date Speaker Title
Tues, May 2
2:30-3:20
140 SH
Serena Tiong
University of Iowa
Equity-Indexed Annuities In the Black-Scholes Environment
Thurs, Apr. 27Richard Tweedie
University of Minnesota
A Non-parametric ``Trim and Fill'' Method of Accounting for Publication Bias in Meta-analysis
Thurs, Apr. 13Cun-Hui Zhang
Rutgers University
Some Recent Results in Isotonic Regression
Thurs, Apr. 6Dan Sargent
Mayo Clinic
Structured Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Thurs, Mar. 30Bill Stewart
Pharmaceutical Research Associates
Ground Hog Day: The Finite Population Interpretation of Randomized Clinical Trials
Thurs, Mar. 23Ker-Chau Li
U.C.L.A.
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Tues, Mar. 21Warren Luckner
Society of Actuaries
Year 2000 and Beyond: SoA Course 7 - Why? How? and What?
Thurs, Mar. 9 Dmitrii Silvestrov
Malardalen University, Sweden
Optimal pricing of American type options
Thurs, Feb. 24 John Beekman
Ball State University
One Approach to Dual Randomness in Life Insurance
Thurs, Feb. 17 Yeh-Fong Chen
Univ. of Iowa
The Properties of the MLE under the DAL Restriction
Thurs, Feb. 10 Jian Huang
University of Iowa
A likelihood-based approach to linkage detection adaptive to linkage disequilibrium
Thurs, Jan. 27 Video of R. L. Moore Challenges in the Classroom