TUESDAY, February 3
On the Surplus Process Perturbed by Diffusion
Cary Chi-Liang Tsai, Department of Finance, National Taiwan University
Thursday, February 5
Model-Based Geostatistics: Some Recent Results on Computational and Theoretical Issues
Hao Zhang, Department of Statistics, Washington State University
Thursday, February 12
What Statistics Educators Can Learn from the Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Literature
Joy Jordan, Department of Mathematics, Lawrence University
MONDAY, February 16
Hattendorff Theorem - Yet Another Look
N.D. Shyamal Kumar, Department of Actuarial Science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Thursday, February 19
On the Mean Squared Prediction Error for Small Area Estimation
Taps Maiti, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
Thursday, March 4
Partial Mixture Estimation for Outlier Detection, Mapping, and Clustering of Large Datasets
David Scott, Department of Statistics, Rice University
Thursday, March 25
Bayesian Inference for Spatially Inhomogeneous Pairwise Interacting Point Processes
Matt Bognar, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa
Thursday, April 8 - CRAIG LECTURE #1
Objective Bayesian Analysis: Its Uses in Practice and Its Role in the Unification of Statistics
Jim Berger, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University
Friday, April 9 - CRAIG LECTURE #2
Validation of Computer Models
Jim Berger, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University
Thursday, April 22
Likelihood-Based Inference for a Separable Covariance Matrix
Dale Zimmerman, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa