Departmental Colloquia - Spring 2006


Thursday, January 19
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Dorin Drignei
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO
"Parameter Estimation for Computationally Intensive Nonlinear Regression with an Application to Climate Modeling"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, January 26
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Rhonda DeCook
Plant Sciences Institute
Iowa State University
"QTL Interval Mapping for Zero-Inflated Poisson Traits"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Monday, January 30
4:00pm
C131 Pomerantz Center
Shuangge (Steven) Ma
Department of Biostatistics and CHS Coordinating Center
University of Washington
"Robust Semiparametric Microarray Normalization and Significance Analysis"

Refreshments at 3:15pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, February 2
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Blake Whitten
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Fashioning a Review Component for a Second Course in Business Statistics: A Tale of Four Bell Curves"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, February 9
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Matt Bognar
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Bayesian Modeling of Marked Spatial Point Patterns"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, February 23
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Douglas Bates
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Case Studies of Mixed-Effects Models"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, March 2
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Jun Yan
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Partly Functional Temporal Process Regression"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, March 9
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Elias Shiu
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Dynamic Fund Protection"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, March 23
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Yong Chen
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Iowa
"Application of Matroid Theory in Diagnosability and Redundancy Analysis of Linear Sensor Systems"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, March 30
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Ying Zhang
Department of Biostatistics
University of Iowa
"Likelihood-Based Semiparametric Estimation Methods for Panel Count Data with Covariates"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, April 6
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Xiaotong Shen
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
"Large Margin Semi-Supervised Learning"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, April 13
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Dale Zimmerman
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
"Optimal Environmental Monitoring Network Design for Empirical Spatial Predication"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, April 20
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Jim Duarte
Director, Quality & Reliability
Vermeer Manufacturing Company
"Pictorial Data for Describing Process Performance"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Wednesday, April 26 - CRAIG LECTURE #1
4:00pm
40 Schaeffer Hall
(not 140)
Alan Agresti
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
"Reducing Conservatism of Exact Small-Sample Inference for Discrete Data"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.

Thursday, April 27 - CRAIG LECTURE #2
4:10pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Alan Agresti
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
"A Twentieth Century Tour of Categorical Data Analysis"

Craig Cake and Punch at 3:00-4:00pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.
Special note: Student Awards will be presented at 4:00pm in 140 SH.

Thursday, May 4
4:00pm
140 Schaeffer Hall
Matt Austin
Principal Statistician
Amgen
"Data Visualization in the Reporting of Clinical Results"

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 241 Schaeffer Hall.